Program at a Glance


Day 1 - Industry Day & Workshops: Monday, June 2, 2025

Locations:

Detailed Industry Day Program

Detailed Workshops Program

08:00 Registration Open


09:00 – 10:00 Industry Day Keynote: Hemanth Sampath


Hemanth Sampath

Wireless in the Era of Edge Compute and AI

Speaker: Dr. Hemanth Sampath
VP Engineering, XR, Networks, Edge AI, Cloud AI, University relations) Qualcomm Inc.
Details

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break


10:30 – 12:30 Industry Day / Workshops


12:30 – 13:45 Lunch


13:45 – 15:00 Industry Day / Workshops


15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break


15:30 – 16:45 Industry Day / Workshops


16:45 – 18:30 Reception / Posters


Day 2 - Conference: Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Location: Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building (ISEB) Auditorium

08:00 Registration Open


08:45 – 09:00 Opening Remarks


09:00 – 10:15 Keynote – Douglas C. Schmidt


Douglas C. Schmidt

Navigating Our AI-Enabled Future in High-Stakes Domains

Speaker: Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt
Dean of William & Mary’s School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics
Details

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break


10:45 – 12:15 Research I: Mobile Data Management and Large Language Models


Session Chair: Cyrus Shahabi (USC, USA)
Obstacles Aware Partitioning for Bounding Worst-Case Response Time of Mobile Surveillance Fleet (full paper) (Best paper candidate)
Prabin Giri (Iowa State University)*; Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University)

Exploiting Vehicular Data for Exposure-Aware Pedestrian Routing (full paper)
Gurban Aliyev (University of Pisa)*

Geo-Llama: Leveraging LLMs for Human Mobility Trajectory Generation with Spatiotemporal Constraints (full paper) (Best paper candidate)
SIYU LI (Emory University)*; Toan Tran (Emory University); Haowen Lin (University of Southern California); John Krumm (University of Southern California); Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California); Lingyi Zhao (Novateur Research Solution); Khurram Shafique (Novateur Research Solution); Li Xiong (Emory University)

Natural Language to Overpass Query: A Multi-Step Approach Using Task Decomposition and Key-Value Correction (full paper)
Haodi Zhang (Shenzhen University); Xinrui Zhu (Shenzhen University)*; Xuan Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences); Hanlin Gu (WeBank Co.Ltd); Yuanfeng Song (WeBank Co.Ltd); Lin Ma (NanJing university)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch


13:30 – 14:00 Invited Talk (Mobile/Edge)


Shahram Ghandeharizadeh

Flying Light Specks: Dronevision, Holodecks and Spatial Computing

Speaker: Dr. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh
Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California
Director, Flying Light Specks Laboratory
Details

13:30 – 15:00 Research Session II: Mobile Computing and Systems

Session Chair: Ibrahim Sabek (USC, USA)

V-USDT: Vision-Based UAV Swarm Detection and Tracking by Leveraging Swarm Formation Constraints (short paper)
Md. Hasibur Rahman (Missouri S&T); Sanjay Madria (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA)*

FedCAFE: Federated Context-Aware Recommendation via Adaptive Fuzzy Embedding (full paper)
Xiaoyu Kang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences)*; Zhixin Shi (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Event-Coupled Network for Traffic Conversion Prediction in Weather Emergencies (full paper)
Mengmeng chang (Henan Normal University)*; Yafei Sun (Henan Normal University); Yayan Lu (Henan Normal University); Dewen Zhang (Henan Normal University); Xiang Li (Henan Normal University)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break


15:30 – 17:00 Research Session III – ML and Analytics for Mobile and Traffic Data

Session Chair: Fabio Pinelli (IMT Lucca, Italy)

Modeling Inhabited Smart Spaces to Support Interoperable IoT-Based Applications (full paper) (Best paper candidate)
Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)*; Nada Lahjouji (University of California, Irvine); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis); Sharad Mehrotra (University of California, Irvine); Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine)

Urban Region Embeddings from Service-Specific Mobile Traffic Data (short paper)
Francesco Lettich (ISTI-CNR)*; Giulio Loddi (IMT Lucca); Chiara Pugliese (IIT-CNR); Fabio Pinelli (IMT Lucca); Chiara Renso (ISTI-CNR)

An Innovative Spatiotemporal Trajectories Clustering Algorithm with Semantic Information Extraction (short paper)
Zhiming Ding (ISCAS); Jin Yan (UCAS;ISCAS)*; Shan Jiang (ISCAS)

Exploring the Utility-Privacy Trade-off: Impacts of Semantic and Visit Type Ambiguities on Human Mobility Simulation (short paper)
Licia Amichi (ORNL)*; Joon-Seok Kim (Emory University); Gautam Malviya Thakur (ORNL); Steven Carter Christopher (ORNL)

17:00 – 18:00 Demos


TrajDash: GPS Trajectory and Mobility Analysis Dashboard
Amirhossein Sefati (University of Calgary, Canada), John Krumm (University of Southern California, CA, USA), Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California, CA, USA)

Visualizing Range and Alibi Queries for Space-Time Prisms of Uncertain Moving Objects
Nathan Thomas (Iowa State University, IA, USA), Ryan Cook (Iowa State University, IA, USA). Mara Prochaska (Iowa State University, IA, USA), Eric Jorgensen (Iowa State University, IA, USA), Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, IA, USA)

Harnessing Crowdsourced Mobile Data And LLM for Dynamic and Accessible Pedestrian Routing
Gyanko Issah Yussif (University of Rhode Island, RI, USA), Marwan Abdelatti (University of Rhode Island, RI, USA), Abdeltawab Hendawi (University of Rhode Island, RI, USA)

SEQUIN: A Network Science and Physics-based Approach for Sequential N-k Attacks in Electric Grids
Andrew Chio, Russell Bent, Kaarthik Sundar, Nalini Venkatasubramanian

Texera: A System for Collaborative and Interactive Data Analytics Using Workflows
Zuozhi Wang, Yicong Huang, Shengquan Ni, Avinash Kumar, Sadeem Alsudais, Xiaozhen Liu, Xinyuan Lin, Yunyan Ding, Chen Li

Day 3 - Conference: Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Locations:

08:00 Registration Open

Location: ISEB

09:00 – 10:15 Keynote – Ram D. Sriram

Location: ISEB

Ram Duvvuru Sriram

Revolutionizing Health Care: The Convergence of Technology, Data, and P9 Medicine

Speaker: Dr. Ram D. Sriram
Chief of the Software & Systems Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
Details

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break


10:45 – 12:15 Industry Track

Location: ISEB
Session Chair: Ashley Song (Microsoft, USA)

Location Representation Learning For Urban Management with Heterogeneous Graph
Xiaozhu Jin (South Dakota State University)*;Xianding Tao (District Department of Transportation);Kaiqun Fu (South Dakota State University)

CLARA: Context-aware RAG-LLM Framework for Anomaly Detection in Mobile Device Sensors
Chan Young Koh (University of Rhode Island)*;Kyle Demedeiros (University of Rhode Island);Abdeltawab Hendawi (University of Rhode Island)

A Scalable Automated System for Efficient Complete Street Data Collection and Maintenance
Putthida Samrith (UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA)*;Jiayu Li (University of Washington Tacoma);Wei Cheng (University of Washington Tacoma)

GRUMDN: A Multi-Task Model for Predicting Human Patterns-of-Life from Stay Transition Data
Chathika Gunaratne (Oak Ridge National Laboratory);Debraj De (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)*; Mason Stott (Oak Ridge National Laboratory);Gautam Malviya Thakur (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch


13:30 – 14:00 Invited Talk (Spatial AI)

Location: ISEB

Padhraic Smyth

Modeling Spatio-temporal Data: Recent Trends in Machine Learning

Speaker: Dr. Padhraic Smyth
Hasso Plattner Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Dept of Computer Science, Univ of CA, Irvine
Details

13:30 – 15:00

  • Advanced Seminar 1: Foundation Models for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining and Management

    Location: DBH 6011
    Organizers: Haomin Wen, Hua Wei, Yuxuan Liang, Huaiyu Wan, and Roger Zimmermann
    Details

  • Research Session IV: Machine Learning and Analytics for Trajectories

    Location: ISEB
    Session Chair: Rodrigo Sasse David (Aalborg University, Denmark)
    Effective Ship Trajectory Imputation with Multiple Coastal Cameras (full paper) (Best paper candidate)
    Song Wu (Université Libre de Bruxelles)*; Kristian Torp (Aalborg University); Alexandros Troupiotis-Kapeliaris (University of the Aegean); Dimitris Zissis (University of the Aegean); Esteban Zimányi (Université libre de Bruxelles); Mahmoud Sakr (Université libre de Bruxelles)

    TrajSplit: Scalable and Accurate Trip Extraction from Raw GPS Trajectories (full paper)
    Areeg Mostafa (University of Minnesota)*; Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota); Ana Elena Uribe (University of Minnesota)

    TrajRoute: Rethinking Routing with a Simple Trajectory-Based Approach - Forget the Maps and Traffic! (short paper)
    Maria Despoina Siampou (University of Southern California)*; Chrysovalantis Anastasiou (University of Southern California); John Krumm (University of Southern California); Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break


15:30 – 17:00

  • (contd.) Advanced Seminar 1: Foundation Models for Spatio-Temporal Data Mining and Management

    Location: DBH 6011
    Organizers: Haomin Wen, Hua Wei, Yuxuan Liang, Huaiyu Wan, and Roger Zimmermann
    Details

  • Advanced Seminar 2: Large Language Models for Urban Mobility

    Location: ISEB Auditorium
    Organizers: Youssef Hussein, Mohamed Hemdan, and Mohamed F. Mokbel
    Details

17:00 – 18:00 PhD Showcase

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Session Chair: Sanjay Madria (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Secure and Efficient Information Management in Delay (Disruption) Tolerant Networks
Shudip Datta (Netscout, USA)

Leveraging Mobility to Enhance IoT Applications
Fangqi Liu (Vanderbilt University, USA)

Towards Automated Security and Privacy Policies Specification and Analysis
Saja Alqurashi (Colorado State University, USA)

18:00 - 22:00 Banquet

The MDM2025 Banquet, bringing together all attendees, will take place at the Harborside restaurant, located inside the historic Balboa Pavilion building built in 1906 with spectacular views of the harbor.

Harborside

Day 4 - Conference: Thursday, June 5, 2025

Locations:

08:00 Registration Open

Location: ISEB Auditorium

09:00 – 10:15 Keynote – Klara Nahrstedt

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Klara Nahrstedt

Next Generation Multi-View Video Content Delivery to Mobile Devices

Speaker: Prof. Klara Nahrstedt, Swanlund Chair Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science; Director, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC
Details

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break


10:45 – 12:15 Test of Time Award and Plenary Panel

Panel Title: Harnessing Foundation Models for Spatiotemporal Applications

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Chairs: Chairs: Dimitrios Gunopulos (University of Athens, Greece), Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan), Vassilis J. Tsotras (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Panelists: Petko Bakalov (ESRI), Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota), Ashley Song (Microsoft), Cyrus Shahabi (University of Southern California), Roger Zimmermann (National University of Singapore)

12:15 – 13:30 Mentoring Session

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham

Mentoring for Career Success in Computer Science for All

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Speaker: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Founders Chair Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
Details

12:15 – 13:30 Lunch


13:30 – 14:00 Invited Talk (Disaster Geoinformatics)

Location: ISEB Auditorium
Shunichi Koshimura

Tsunami Digital Twin : Its Concept, Progress, and Applications to Japan and the US

Speaker: Dr. Shunichi Koshimura
Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, Japan
Co-founder & CTO, RTi-cast, Inc., Japan
Details

13:30 – 15:00


  • Research Session V: Mobile Data Quality and Security

    Location: ISEB Auditorium
    Session Chair: Ahmed Eldawy (UC Riverside, USA)

    The Silent Signature: Behavior-based User Exposure in Mobility Data (full paper)
    Lucas Felix (INRIA/UFMG)*; Anne Josiane Kouam (TU - Berlin); Aline Carneiro Viana (INRIA); Nadjib Achir (INRIA); Jussara M. Almeida (UFMG)

    Quality of Hybrid GNSS Sampling Methods (full paper)
    Rodrigo Sasse David (Aalborg University)*; Kristian Torp (Aalborg University); Anders Zinck Justesen (FlexDanmark); Mahmoud Sakr (Université Libre de Bruxelles); Esteban Zimányi (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

    SmartSLA: Enabling Quality of Service in Blockchain-Enabled IoT Networks for Multi-Tenant Environments (short paper)
    Kyle Whitlatch (Missouri S&T); asad malik ( Mississippi State University); Sanjay Madria (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA)*

  • Doctoral Forum

    Location: DBH 4011
    Session Chair: Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
    Mock thesis committees: Bruhadeshwar Bezawada(Southern Arkansas University);Kun-Ta Chuang(National Cheng Kung University);De-Nian Yang(Academia Sinca, Taiwan);Mi-Yen Yeh(Academia Sinca, Taiwan)

    Resource Allocation for Disaster Resilience in Senior Health Care
    Modeste Mefenya Kenne, University of California, Irvine

    Improving Blockchain Resilience to Network Partitioning by Sharding
    Juncheng Fang, University of California, Irvine

    Identifying Onsite and Remote Mobile Working Groups for Collaboration Aware Workforce Allocation
    Chia-Hsun Lu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break


15:30 – 17:00


  • Advanced Seminar 3: A Brief Introduction to Geospatial Big Data Analytics with Apache AsterixDB

    Location: ISEB Auditorium
    Organizers: Suryaa Charan Shivakumar, Ian Maxon, Ahmed Eldawy, Michael Carey and Vassilis Tsotras
    Details

  • Doctoral Forum

    Location: DBH 4011
    Session Chair: Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
    Mock thesis committees: Kun-Ta Chuang(National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan);Fangqi Liu(Vanderbilt University);De-Nian Yang(Academia Sinica, Taiwan);Mi-Yen Yeh(Academia Sinca, Taiwan);Zhijin Qin(Google)

    A Data-Driven Pipeline for Estimating and Mitigating Vehicular Emission Exposure in Urban Environments
    Gurban Aliyev, University of Pisa, Italy

    Deadlocks: A Critical Performance Bottleneck in High-Contention OLTP Systems
    Farzad Habibi, University of California, Irvine

    Investigating Different Perspectives on Vulnerability in Mobility Datasets
    Lucas Felix, Universidade Federal de Mina Gerais, Brazil & Inria, France

17:00 – 18:00 Closing Remarks

Location: ISEB Auditorium