Team

Faculty

  • Dieter Pfoser, Professor
    Department Chair, Director Center for Geospatial Intelligence
    Research: spatiotemporal databases, graph algorithms, spatial data mining, urban analytics

Postdoc

  • Kuldip Atwal, Postdoc
    Research: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, mobility analytics
  • Henrique Ferraz deArruda, Postdoc
    Research: Machine Learning, mobility analytics
  • Sandro Reia, Postdoc
    Research: Agent-based Modeling, mobility analytics

Graduate Students

  • Chao Duo, PhD Student
    Research: Machine learning, mobility analytics
  • Zheng Gong, PhD Student
    Research: Geospatial AI, mobility analytics
  • Jonathan Mbuya, PhD Student (CS)
    Research: Deep Learning, Language Models, Trajectory Outlier Detection
  • Kourosh Baghaei, PhD Student (CS)
    Research: Deep Learning, Vision Language Models
  • Prabin Bhandari, PhD Student (CS)
    Research: Deep Learning, Language Models and Spatial Knowledge
  • Shiyang Ruan, PhD Student
    Research: agent-based modeling, open source mining, mobility analytics

Alumni

  • Kejin Cui, PhD Student
    Research: machine learning, earth observation data
    Organization: Data Scientist (Microsoft)
  • Olga Gkountouna, Postdoc
    Research: machine learning, mobility analytics
    Organization: Assistant Professor (Department of Computing and Data Sciences, GMU)
  • Hamdi Kavak, Postdoc
    Research: agent-based modeling, agent-based modeling, mobility analytics
    Organization: Assistant Professor (Department of Computing and Data Sciences, GMU)
  • Joon-Seok Kim, Postdoc
    Research: agent-based modeling, mobility analytics, prescriptive analytics
    Organization: Postdoc (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
  • Haiyang Lyu, Visiting PhD student
    Research: map construction, mobility analytics
    Organization: Assistant Professor (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)
  • Xiangqiang Min, Visiting PhD student
    Research: spatiotemporal indexing, trajectory data management
    Organization: PhD Student (Nanjing Normal University, China)
  • Bryan Weaver, PhD Student
    Research: knowledge management, data management workflows
    Organization: Senior DOD official
  • Liming Zhang, PhD Student
    Research: deep learning, machine learning, mobility analytics
    Organization: Data Scientist (Verizon)