Abstract:
With the rapid development of positioning, sensor and smart device technologies, large quantities of human behavioral data are now readily available. They reflect various aspects of human mobility and activities in the physical world. The availability of this data presents an unprecedented opportunity to gain a more in depth understanding of users and provide them with personalized online experience. In this talk, I will present our recent research efforts on this direction, including a space alignment approach for reconstructing individual mobility from smart card transactions, and a joint geographical modeling and matrix factorization for Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation.
Biography: Dr. Xing Xie is currently a senior researcher in Microsoft Research Asia, and a guest Ph.D. advisor for the University of Science and Technology of China. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He joined Microsoft Research Asia in July 2001, working on spatial data mining, location based services, social networks and ubiquitous computing. He currently serves on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Springer GeoInformatica, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Journal of Location Based Services, and Communications of the China Computer Federation (CCCF). He is a member of Joint Steering Committee of the UbiComp and Pervasive Conference Series, a senior member of ACM, the IEEE, and China Computer Federation (CCF).
