Prof.ZHOU Xiaofang  gives report

Prof. ZHOU Xiaofang  from the University of Queensland gave a report titled “Making Sense of Trajectory Data” in the CAS Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) on January 12, 2011.

He introduced trajectory data and its wide availability, prospected some novel data-driven, location-based applications possible, and discussed some key issues in providing efficient and effective ways of capturing, storing, searching and using large scale trajectory data.

After report, Prof. ZHOU and his entourage visiting state Key laboratory of Resource and Environmental Information System (LREIS) of IGSNRR. They made a high praises of the achievements of LREIS., and expressed further coorperation with LREIS in the future. 

Prof. ZHOU is the Head of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Division at UQ, the Convenor and Director of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure, and the founding chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter. He has been working in the area of spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high performance query processing, Web information systems and bioinformatics, co-authored over 170 research papers with many published in top journals and conferences. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Renmin University of China.