people

Our team includes researchers from the University of Minnesota (UMN) and the University of Southern California (USC), and visitors from worldwide universities. Our students are from various programs, such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Population, Health and Place (PHP) Graduate Program.

Lab Director

Yao-Yi Chiang

Associate Professor
UMN CS&E

Bob

The Dog

Cha-cha

The Dog

Ph.D. Students

Zekun Li

UMN CS&E

Yijun Lin

UMN CS&E

Junbao & Yuanyuan

The Cats

Jina Kim

UMN CS&E

Min Namgung

UMN CS&E

Leeje Jang

UMN CS&E

Theresa Chen

UMN CS&E

Henry Hu

UMN CS&E

Jiyoon Pyo

UMN CS&E

Sofia Kirsanova

UMN CS&E

Janghyeon Lee

UMN CS&E

Junyi Xie

UMN CS&E

Student Workers

Rhett Olson

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Junhan Wu

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Claire Chen

Graduate Student
UMN CS&E

Alumni

Weiwei Duan

Ph.D.
USC Computer Science

Johanna Avelar Portillo

Ph.D.
USC Spatial Sciences Institute
PHP Graduate Program

Lois Park

Ph.D.
USC Spatial Sciences Institute
PHP Graduate Program

Dan Feldman

Ph.D.
USC Computer Science

Hayley Song

Ph.D. Student
USC Computer Science

Yichen Li

Graduate Student
UMN CS&E

Tanisha Shrotriya

Graduate Student
UMN CS&E

Young Namgung

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Yasuki Wu

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Jack N Milless

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Jeonghoon Kim

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Runyu Guan

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Che-Pai Kung

Graduate Student
USC Applied Data Science

Qianmu Yu

Graduate Student
USC Electrical Engineering

Haipeng Yu

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Yiren Liu

Graduate Student
USC

Sayee Kulkarni

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Hao Chen

Graduate Student
USC

Diego Frankel

Undergraduate Student
USC

Myunghee Lee

Graduate Student
USC Applied Data Science

Shiuan-Chin Huang

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Xiaozhe Yin

Ph.D. Student
USC

Khaoula Karroum

Ph.D. Student
Telecommunication Systems,
Networks and Services Lab
National Institute of Posts
and Telecommunications
Rabat Morocco

Libo Liu

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Pallavi Taneja

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Haowen Lin

Undergraduate Student
USC Computer Science

Yuanbin Cheng

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Adam Vaccaro

Graduate Student
USC Spatial Data Science

Jeffrey Jow

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Tong Lyu

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Jianfa Lin

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Liujie Wang

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Weifeng Yan

Visiting Research Assistant
Mathematics
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yanyi Qian

Visiting Scholar
Information Management
and Information System
Peking University

Xin Yu

Graduate Student
USC Spatial Informatics

Sandeep Banisetti

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Lakshya Kejriwal

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Sudan Zhang

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Nikhit Mago

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Shayna Lascala

Ph.D. Student
Department of Sociology
UC Riverside

Jose Rico

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Yiqi Huang

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Lu Zhang

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Mengyue Huan

Graduate Student
USC Spatial Informatics

Ishan Alok

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Ying Zhang

Associate Professor
Control and Computing Engineering
North China Electric Power University

Xiaoyue (Vivien) Yang

Visiting Research Programmer

Pan Fan

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Zhiyuan Wang

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Bhaskar Bandyopadhyay

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Abhishek Jain

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Joanna Haoshi Wang

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Deepika Anand

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Manikanta Kotthapalli

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Sumedha Kucherlapati

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Hariprabha Mallyah

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Nandan Nayak

Graduate Student
USC Spatial Informatics

Jakapun Tachaiya

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Ronald Yu

Undergraduate Student
USC Computer Science

Yuanchang Zhang

Graduate Student
USC Spatial Informatics

Vijayan Balasubramanian

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Yuan Gao

Associate Professor
Department of Information
and Management
Northwest University, China

Narges Honarvar Nazari

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Saarthak Khanna

Graduate Student
USC Data Informatics

Zexuan Luo

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Sanjay Singh

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Tianxiang Tan

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Jianhua Wu

Visiting Scholar
USC Spatial Sciences Institute

Robin Franke

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Alex Chen

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Leonard Ngo

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Kuangyu Xiong

Undergraduate Student
USC Architecture

Yi Hou

Undergraduate Student
USC GeoDesign

Rashmina Ramachandran Menon

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Zebao Zhang

Visiting Scholar
USC Spatial Sciences Institute

Nilesh Gupta

Graduate Student
USC Electrical Engineering

Yamini Goyal

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Haoyang Zhu

High School Student

Andrew Hsu

Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

Wilson Franca De Souza

Undergraduate Student
Environmental Resources Engineering
Humboldt State University

Yang Meng

Graduate Student
USC Data Science

Woojin Park

Visiting Scholar
USC Spatial Sciences Institute

Sima Moghaddam

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Haohan Yang

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Akshay Anand

Esri
Previously Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Ramtin Boustani

Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Renuka Fernandes

Undergraduate Student
USC Electrical Engineering

Sanjaul Gupta

Yahoo
Previously Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Jizhe Zhou

Undergraduate Student
USC Electronics and
Information Engineering

Ketan Akade

Yahoo
Previously Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Cathy Ji

Undergraduate Student
USC Computer Engineering

Phokgoan Chioh

USC

Parin Jogani

Ebay
Previously Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Shrikanth Narayanan

Graduate Student
USC Data Science

Ashish Shirode

Intel
Previously Graduate Student
USC Computer Science

Malcolm Grossman

UMN CS&E

Yuankun Jiao

UMN CS&E

Jinwei Zhou

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E

Morris Liu

Undergraduate Student
UMN CS&E