Thirst for Knowledge: The Future of Spatial Computing

 Join the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CS&E) for this all-alumni event featuring Minnesota spatial computing faculty. Enjoy hosted beverages and appetizers, and the chance to reconnect with former classmates, colleagues, instructors, and friends. All alumni of the University of Minnesota CS&E programs (Computer Science, Data Science, MSSE) are invited to attend, and guests are welcome. 

Questions? Contact cscievents@umn.edu.

About the Program

Learn about current and future directions in spatial computing research from experts in the CS&E community!

• Jayant Gupta, Ph.D. student
  
  The rise of spatial big data (e.g., trajectories, remote-sensing) is fueling growth of Geo-AI to speed-up creation of new maps and discover novel spatiotemporal patterns of our lives. However, generic methods are hampered by the high cost of false errors, spatial variability, etc. We share novel spatial data science methods (e.g., SaTScan co-location miner) and case studies with societal applications. 
   
• Mohamed Mokbel, Professor
  
  Spatial Computing Systems: Embedding spatial awareness boosts scalability, accuracy, and efficiency of computing system infrastructures for big data, knowledge discovery, data cleaning, and machine learning. This presentation will discuss the impact of spatial computing systems in various applications along with UMN SpatialHadoop, a pioneering geospatial cloud computing system.
   
• Yao-Yi Chiang, Associate Professor 
  
  Spatially-enable AI: Spatial concepts and methods enhance the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in many areas including health, transportation, and environmental sciences. This presentation will share spatially-enable AI technologies for air quality predictions, data-driven intelligent transportation systems, human mobility mining, and automatic reading of thousands of historical map scans in archives for understanding human-induced changes in the environment.

There is no charge to attend our event, but pre-registration is required. Register by Tuesday, Oct. 18.