Summary Overview of Spatial Database and Data Mining Group

• Biography
• Teaching Overview :
  • Profile and Statement , Graduate Education Award , University of Minnesota, 2015.
  • Remarks (14 slides) at the 2015 UCGIS Education Award .
• Research Overviews
  • Short Videos: Scroll to Module 8 of this page for two short videos titled advances in spatial databases and advances in spatial data mining describing recent research projects. These videos are part of a Coursera course titled From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing . One may need to create a free Coursera account to access these videos.
  • Small slide-sets:
    • Sept. 2010: 8 slides
    • May 2008 : 3 slides
  • Longer slide-sets:
    • Feb. 2009 at G.I.Sc. Forum (MapForum, India): 20 slides (pdf)
    • Jan. 2009 at MN Future Workshop on Geoinformatics: 10 slides (pdf)
    • 2007 at Wuhan University: 20 slides

Broad Surveys, Panel/Vision Statements and Opinions

• Introductory Videos: This page has a collection of videos on six spatial computing topics including spatial databases and spatial data mining.
  These videos are part of a Coursera course titled From GPS and Google Maps to Spatial Computing .
  One may need to create a free Coursera account to access these videos.
• From GPS, Google Maps and Uber to Spatial Computing, Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Transforming Smart Cities with Spatial Computing, Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
• Interdisciplinary Research: War Stories from Spatial Data Science Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Spatial Big Data: A Perspective, Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• What is special about mining spatial and spatio-temporal datasets? ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Transforming Agriculture Via Intelligent Infrastructure Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Computing at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Geo-Social Media Revolution: Hype or Real? Abstract, Slides, Biography, etc. (html):
• Spatial Databases : A Tour: abstract (html), at MN GIS/LIS 2003 - 2009
• Informatics: What is it? pdf slides - Invited talk at the 2008 NSF IGERT on Sensor Science, Engineering and Informatics 2008 workshop.
• Teaching G.I.Science: A Computing Perspective, pdf slides - Invited talk at the 2008 Annual Summer Assembly of the UCGIS .
• GIS and Cyber-Infrastructure in: powerpoint slides - Invited talk at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (April 2008).
• GIS in 2015: powerpoint slides - Invited talk at the Research & New Venture Showcase: Geospatial Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas (January, 2008).

Major Projects

• AI-CLIMATE : ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
• Climate Smart Computing : A Perspective : ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
• Smart and Connected Communities : ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
• Evacuation Route Planning for Homeland Security : ABSTRACT, Slides, Biography, etc. (html)
  • Invited talk at US-Taiwan Workshop on Adv. of Societal Responses to Mag-Disasters afflicting Mega-Cities, May 2010.
  • Invited talk at DHS NSF Workshop on Emergency Management , Nov. 2009.
  • University of California, Santa Barbara, Spatial@ucsb, Dangermond annual lecture , May, 2009.
  • UCGIS Winter Assembly , Feb. 2009.
  • Invited talk at Intelligent Transportation Systems forum (March 8th, 2006)
  • UCGIS Congressional Presentation (2/04)
• Spatial Data Mining and Environmental Sciences: Abstract, Biography, Slides, etc. ) (html)
  • Annual GIS Day at University of Notre Dame , November, 2010.
  • The 21st IASTED Intl. Conf. on Modelling and Simulation , July, 2010.
• High-performance GIS : abstract (html) - Invited talk at
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on High Performance and Distributed Geographic Information Systems (HPDGIS) (Nov. 2nd, 2010).
  • Oakridge National Laboratory (Feb. 24th, 2006)
• Mapcube: A Visualization Approach for Spatial Datawarehouses abstract, slides, etc. (html)
• Mining colocation patterns from spatial datasets: abstract (html), slides (pdf),
• A Unified Approach to Spatial Outliers with Applications to Traffic Data Analysis: abstract (html),
• Predicting Locations Using Map Similarity: A Case Study in Spatial Data Mining: abstract (html),
• CCAM: A Connectivity Clustered Access Method for Roadmaps abstract (html), slides ( html , powerpoint)
• Map Accuracy Evaluation : abstract (html)

Talks at University of Minnesota

• Overview (powerpoint slides): 1 slide summary , Brief biography (4 slides), CS Dept. Graduate Students Orientation (6 slides),
• IGERT Overview (powerpoint slides): 10 slide summary ,
• AHPCRC Overview (powerpoint slides): 10 slide summary ,
• Army High Performance Computing Research Center : Summary of projects : powerpoint ,
• Intelligent Transportation Research: Summary of 5 projects over 10 years: powerpoint,
  Traffic Data Visualization as Mapcube : powerpoint ,
• RAM 2006 Workshop 10 slides ,