Xun Zhou, Ph.D.
Bio: Dr. Xun Zhou was previously a tenured Associate Professor and Henry B. Tippie Research Fellow in the Department of Business Analytics,
Tippie College of Business at The University of Iowa. He served as the director of graduate studies (DGS) during the 2022-2023 academic year.
He was also an affiliated faculty member with the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics (IGPI) and the Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences (AMCS) programs. Since July 2023, he has been a Professor of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HIT-SZ) in China.
Xun received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2014, advised by Prof. Shashi Shekhar.
Prior to that, Xun received his M.S. and B.E. degrees both in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2009 and 2007, respectively.
Contact: zhouxun2023 at hit.edu.cn | xun-zhou at uiowa.edu (phasing out)
Recent News
- Dec. 2024 - One paper accepted by AAAI'25, Congrats to Bang! One paper accepted by ACM TKDD.
- Sept. 2024 - One paper accepted by ICDM. Congratulations to Bang!
- Aug. 2024 - Serve as an Action Editor of the journal Geoinformatica.
- July. 2024 - Area Chair for KDD 2025.
- May. 2024 - DeepSpatial workshop @ KDD deadline extended to June 11. Please consider submitting your work: https://deepspatial2024.github.io/
- Apr. 2024 - Vice Program Co-Chair for SIGSPATIAL'24. Organizing Co-Chair of DeepSpatial Workshop at KDD'24.
- Jan. 2024 - PC for KDD'24, IJCAI'24
- Dec. 2023 - Two papers accepted by AAAI'24 and SDM'24, respectively.
- Nov. 2023 - I will give a keynote talk at the SSTDM Workshop at ICDM 2023 on December 1.
- Oct. 2023 - PC for PAKDD 2024.
- Sept.2023 - One paper accepted by NeurIPS'23. Congratulations to Bang! Two papers accepted by ICDM'23.
- Aug. 2023 - SPC for SDM 2024 and PC for ICLR'24.
- June 2023 - One paper accepted by KAIS. Congratulations to Han!
- May. 2023 - One paper accepted by KDD.
- Jan. 2023 - One paper accepted by IJGIS. Congratulations to Haoyi!
- Jan. 2023 - Congratulations to Han for being featured in the 2023 University of Iowa "Dare to Discover" Campaign!
- Dec. 2022 - One paper accepted by SDM'23.
- Dec. 2022 - Serving as PC member for KDD 2023 (Research Track) and IJCAI 2023.
- Sept.2022 - One paper accepted by NeurIPS'22.
- Aug. 2022 - Two full papers accepted by SIGSPATIAL'22. Three full papers accepted by ICDM'22. Congratulations to Yichen and Han!
- May. 2022 - Co-organizing the 3rd KDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications and Systems (DeepSpatial'22). Paper submission deadline: May 26, 2022!
- Dec. 2021 - One paper accepted by SDM'22. Congratulations to Bang!
- Dec. 2021 - Honored to receive the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICDM 2021! Congratulations to Han and all the co-authors!
- Sept. 2021 - Serving as a PC member of SDM 2022.
- Aug. 2021 - Four full papers and a short paper accetped by ICDM'21. Congratuations to Dr. Amin Vahedian and all the co-authors!
- Aug. 2021 - One paper accepted by ACM TIST. Two full papers accepted by SIGSPATIAL'21. Congratulations to Han!
- Jul. 2021 - Two papers accepted by ACM TIST.
- Jun. 2021 - One paper accepted by ACM TIST.
- Apr. 2021 - Co-organizing the 2nd KDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications and Systems (DeepSpatial'21). Paper submission deadline:
May 20, 2021May 27, 2021. - Feb. 2021 - Named Senior Member of the IEEE.
- Dec. 2020 - Serving as a PC member for KDD'21 (research track) and ICML'21.
- Nov. 2020 - I'm going to teach a Ph.D. level research course on Spatial Big Data Analytics and Computing in Spring 2021.
- Oct. 2020 - A paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).
- Aug. 2020 - Two papers accepted by ICDM'20. Three papers accepted by SIGSPATIAL'20. Congratulations to Yichen and Han!
- May 2020 - Three papers accepted by KDD'20.
- Apr. 2020 - Received Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor at University of Iowa (effective July 1).
- Apr. 2020 - Co-organizing 1st KDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems (DeepSpatial). Time: Aug. 24, 1pm-5pm PDT, online.
- Feb. 2020 - One paper acepted by ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS).
- Jan. 2020 - One paper accepted by the Web Conference (WWW) 2020.
- Nov. 2019 - One paper accepted by IEEE TKDE. Congratulations to Yichen!
- Nov. 2019 - Received Tippie College of Business Research Excellence Grant.
- Sept. 2019 - One paper accepted by ACM TIST.
- Aug. 2019 - Two papers accepted by ICDM 2019. One paper accepted by TKDE. One paper accepted by ACM TIST.
Research Interests
- Spaito-temporal big data analytics and mining
- Machine learning & AI for geospatial data
- Spatial database and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
- Smart cities, urban intelligence, sustainability
- Business analytics
Selected Publications (Full List) (Google Scholar)
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