Service

University of Maine Service

• Currently, Co-Director Data Science and Engineering Graduate Program  (2022-present)
• Graduate Co-Coordinator for the Spatial Information Science & Engineering MS and PhD program, the MS in Information Systems (MSIS), MS in Spatial Informatics (MSSI), Certificate for Computing for Educators (2022-present)
• Computer Science Undergraduate Coordinator (2013-2018)
• ACM-W Faculty member (2015-2021)
• NWCIT Representative for State of Maine (2019-2021)

 

Editorial Boards

• Journal “Open Geospatial Data, Software and Standards”, Springer, 2015-current.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Geo-Information, ISPRS, MDPI. (2019-present)
• Editorial Board Member, IoT, MDPI Open Access Journal (2020-present)

Conferences and Workshops Organized

• Steering Committee, 3rd  Conference on Geosensor Networks (GSN3.0), Oxford, UK, July 2009.
• PC and General Co-Chair, 1st International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-Based Mobile Services (PALMS’07), in conjunction with Mobile Data Management,  Mannheim, Germany, May 2007.
• PC and General Co-Chair, 14th Conference ACM-GIS 2006, Washington DC, November 10-11 2006.
• PC and General Co-Chair, 2nd Workshop on Geosensor Networks (GSN2.0), Boston, MA, Oct 1-3 2006.
• Co-Chair, Workshop “Mobile Location-Aware Sensor Networks“, in conjunction with Mobile Data Management, Nara, Japan, May 13 2006.
• PC and General Co-Chair, Location Privacy Workshop, Schoodic Island, Acadia National Park, ME, Aug 4-7 2004.
• Program and General Co-Chair, First Geo Sensor Networks Workshop, Portland, ME, Oct 9-11 2003.
• Program and General Co-Chair, 15th Conference Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), Cambridge, MA, Jul 9-11 2003.

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Committees and Service

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2016

• PC, ACM Workshop “Mobile Entity Localization, Tracking and Analysis”, co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016
• PC, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2016) May 16 – 20, 2016, Helsinki, Finland

2015

• PC, SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Seattle, Washington, November 2015.
• PC, Spatial and COllective PErvasive Computing Systems (SCOPES), MIT, Cambridge, USA on September 21, 2015.
• PC, Second International ACM Workshop on Managing and Mining Semantically Rich Geo-Spatial Data, in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, 2015

2014

• PC, 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 2014.
• PC, 2014 First International ACM Workshop on Managing and Mining Semantically Rich Geo-Spatial Data, in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS, Snowbird, UT.
• PC, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2014) to be held April, 2014  in Chicago, IL, USA

2013

• PC, 2nd International Workshop GEOCROWD, in conjunction with  ACM SIGPATIAL 2013, Orlando, FL
• PC, 4th International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS), in conjunction with  ACM SIGPATIAL 2103, Orlando, FL
• PC, 21th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 5-8, Orlando, FL
• PC, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Oct 6-9 2013, Silicon Valley, CA
• PC, 39th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2013), August 26-29 2013, Riva di Garda, Italy
• PC,  25th International Scientific and Statistical Database Systems  (SSDBM  2013), Baltimore, MD, USA
• PC,  14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM  2013), Milan, Italy

2012

• PC, 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), November 6-9, Redondo Beach, CA
• PC, 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases(VLDB 2012), August 28-20 2012, Istanbul, Turkey
• PC,  13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management(MDM  2012), July  23-26, 2012 Bangalore, India
• PC,  24th International Scientific and Statistical Database Systems (SSDBM  2012), June  25-27, 2012, Crete, Greece
• PC,  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), April 1-5, 2012 in Washington, DC, USA

2011

• PC,  19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), November 1-4, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• PC, 2nd International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS),  in conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011, November 1-4, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• PC,  Workshop “Cognitive Engineering for Mobile GIS”, in conjunction with COSIT 2011,Belfast, Maine, September 2011
• PC, 37th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases(VLDB), August 2011, Seattle, WA USA
• PC, Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks” (DMSN), in conjunction with VLDB, Seattle, WA,  2011
• PC,  23th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management(SSDBM 2010), July 2-22, Portland, OR.
• PC,  17th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2011), June 6-9 2011,  Lulea, Sweden

2010

• PC, 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS), November 2-5 2010,  San Jose, CA
• PC,1st International Workshop on GeoStreaming, in conjunction with ACM GIS, November 2-5 2010,  San Jose, CA
• PC, International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010), May 23-26 2010,  Kansas City, Missouri
• PC, International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2010), June 30 – July 2, Heidelberg, Germany.

2009

• PC, 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS) 2009, Nov, Seattle, WA.
• PC,  35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2009), August 24-28 2009, Lyon, France.
• PC, Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks” (DMSN), in conjunction with VLDB, Lyon, France, August 2008
• PC, 1st  International Workshop on “Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery from Sensors and Streams” (DKSS 2009), held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2009), Marina del Rey, CA,  June 8-10 2009.
• PC,  10th International Conference Mobile Data Management (MDM 2009), May 18-21 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
• PC,  MDM-Workshop Indoor Spatial Awareness(MDM 2009), May 18 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.

2008

• PC, 16th International ACM Conference on Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS 2008), Los Angeles, CA, Nov 5-7 2008.
• PC, 5th International Workshop Data Management in Sensor Networks, in conjunction with VLDB,  Auckland, New Zealand, Aug 25 2008.
• PC, 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM 2008), Hong Kong, China, July  (tentative), 2008.
• PC, 7th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Mobile and Wireless Access (MobiDE08), in conjunction with SIGMOD, Vancouver, Canada, June 2008.
• PC, 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2008), Cancun, Mexico, April 7-11, 2008.

2007

• PC, Environmental Sensor Networks (ESNs) Workshop, in conjunction with 18th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Athens, Greece, September 7 2007.
• PC, Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks”, in conjunction with VLDB, Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
• PC, 33^rd International Conference Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Vienna, Austria, September 2007.
• PC, 19^th International Conference Scientific and Statistical Database Systems (SSDBM), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2007
• PC, 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), Istanbul, Turkey, April 17-20 (tentative), 2007.

2006

• PC, 6^th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2006), December 4 ~ 5, 2006, Hong Kong
• PC, Workshop “Mining Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data” (SSTDM), Hong Kong, December 18, 2006.
• PC, Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks, in conjunction with 7th ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2006.
• PC, 3^rd VLDB-Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks” (DMSN’06), Seoul, Korea, Sept 11, 2006.
• PC,  1^st Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality (AR), May 29-30 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
• PC, International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Chicago, USA, May 31-June 2 2006.

2005

• PC, 2nd  VLDB-Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks“, Trondheim, Norway, September 2005.
• PC, 5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS (W2GIS05), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 15-16 2005
• PC, ACM 13th International Symposium of Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS 2005).
• PC, 4th International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE `05), in conjunction
  with SIGMOD, Baltimore, MD, June 12th 2005.
• PC, “Geosensor Networks – from research to applications“, June 23rd – 24th, Münster GI-Days, Germany, 2005.
• PC, Symposium on Spatio-Temporal Databases (SSTD’05), Angra, Brazil, August 22-24 2005.
• PC, Conference Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2005.
• PC, International Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems, Mission Valley Marriott, San Diego, CA, USA, June 27 & 28 2005

2004

• PC, VLDB-Workshop “Data Management for Sensor Networks“, Toronto, Canada, August 2004.
• PC, ACM-GIS 2004
• Steering Committee, Conference Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Santorini, Greece, July 2004.
• Steering Committee SIAM Data Mining in Resource Constraint Environments,in association with Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2004) Lake Buena Vista, Florida, April 22-24 2004
• Invited Panelist, National Science Board Workshop “Policies for Long-Lived Data Collections”, Arlington, VA, March 23 2004.

2003

• Invited Session Chair, Interface 2003, “Statistical methods for compressing and querying data in large databases or data streams”, Salt Lake City, UT, March 15 2003

2002

• PC, ACM-GIS 2002
• Invited Participant, NRC Workshop “Coping with Increasing Demands on Government Data Centers”, 2002