Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Minnesota
• M.S., Computer Science, University of Minnesota
• B.S., Electricity Engineering, Yonsei University (South Korea)

Research Interests

• Spatial Database
• Spatial Data Mining
• Transportation Science

Personal Site

Dr. K. Yang

Current Sponsored Research

1. Development of a Traffic Map Evaluation Tool for TMC Applications
   • Florida Department of Transportation
   • PI: A. Stevanovic
   • Co-PI: KwangSoo Yang
   • Feb. 2017 – Dec. 2018
   • $243,706

Recent Publications

Book

• KwangSoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar: Spatial Network Big Databases: Queries and Storage Methods, Springer (2017)

Workshop & Book Chapter

• Yiqun Xie, Kwangsoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar, Brent Dalzell and David Mulla, "Spatially Constrained Geodesign Optimization (GOP) for Improving Agricultural Watershed Sustainability", AAAI Workshop on AI and OR for Social Good (AIORSocGood-17) (2017)
• Evans, Michael R., Dev Oliver, KwangSoo Yang, and Shashi Shekhar. "Enabling Spatial Big Data via CyberGIS: Challenges and Opportunities." CyberGIS: Fostering a New Wave of Geospatial Innovation and Discovery. Springer Book 2017 (expected).

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Publications

Journal

• KwangSoo Yang, Apurv Shekhar, Dev Oliver, Shashi Shekhar, "Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Volume: 27, Issue: 11, Pages: 2919 - 2932 (2015)
• KwangSoo Yang, Apurv Shekhar, Faizan Ur Rehman, Hatim Lahza, Saleh Basalamah, Shashi Shekhar, Imtiaz Ahmed, Arif Ghafoor, "Intelligent Shelter Allotment for Emergency Evacuation Planning: A Case Study of Makkah", IEEE Intelligent Systems, Volume:30 Issue:5 Pages: 66 - 76(2015)
• Venkata Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar, KwangSoo Yang, "A Critical-time-point Approach to All-departure-time Lagrangian Shortest Paths", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Volume: 27, Issue: 10, Pages: 2591 - 2603 (2015)
• KwangSoo Yang, Michael R. Evans, Venkata M.V. Gunturi, James M. Kang, Shashi Shekhar, "Lagrangian Approaches to Storage of Spatio-temporal Network Datasets," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Volume:26, Issue:9, Pages 2222 - 2236 (2014)
• Shashi Shekhar, KwangSoo Yang, Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Lydia Manikonda, Dev Oliver, Xun Zhou, Betsy George, Sangho Kim, Jeffrey M. R. Wolff, Qingsong Lu: Experiences with evacuation route planning algorithms. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 26(12): 2253-2265 (2012)

Conference

• KwangSoo Yang: Distance-Constrained k Spatial Sub-Networks: A Summary of Results. In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Springer LNCS 9927: pages 68-84 (2016)
• KwangSoo Yang, Apurv Hirsh Shekhar, Dev Oliver, Shashi Shekhar: Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram: A Summary of Results. Spatial and Temporal Databases, proceeding of 13th Intl. Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases Springer LNCS 8098: pages 56-73 (2013)
• KwangSoo Yang, Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar: A Dartboard Network Cut Based Approach to Evacuation Route Planning: A Summary of Results. In Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, LNCS 7478: 325-339 (2012)
• KwangSoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar, Jing Dai, Sambit Sahu, Milind R. Naphade: Smarter Water Management: A Challenge for Spatio-Temporal Network Databases. Spatial and Temporal Databases, proceeding of 12th Intl. Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Springer LNCS 6849: pages 471-474 (2011)
• Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Ernesto Nunes, KwangSoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar: A Critical-Time-Point Approach to All-Start-Time Lagrangian Shortest Paths: A Summary of Results. Spatial and Temporal Databases, proceeding of 12th Intl. Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, Springer LNCS 6849: pages 74-91 (2011)
• Michael R. Evans, KwangSoo Yang, James M. Kang, Shashi Shekhar: A Lagrangian approach for storage of spatio-temporal network datasets: a summary of results. In Proceedings of 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL Intl. Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pages 212-221 (2010)

Book

• KwangSoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar: Spatial Network Big Databases: Queries and Storage Methods, Springer (2017)

Workshop & Book Chapter

• Xie, Yiqun, KwangSoo Yang, Shashi Shekhar, Brent Dalzell, and David Mulla. "Spatially Constrained Geodesign Optimization (GOP) for Improving Agricultural Watershed Sustainability." AAAI-17 Workshop on AI and OR for Social Good (2017).
• Evans, Michael R., Dev Oliver, KwangSoo Yang, and Shashi Shekhar. "Enabling Spatial Big Data via CyberGIS: Challenges and Opportunities." CyberGIS: Fostering a New Wave of Geospatial Innovation and Discovery. Springer Book 2015 (expected).
• Evans, Michael R., KwangSoo Yang, Viswanath Gunturi, Betsy George, and Shashi Shekhar. "Spatio-temporal Networks: Modeling, Storing, and Querying Temporally-Detailed Roadmaps." In Space-Time Integration in Geography and GIScience, pp. 77-108. Springer, ISBN: 978-94-017-9204-2 (2015)
• Shekhar, Shashi, Michael R. Evans, Viswanath Gunturi, KwangSoo Yang, and Daniel Cintra Cugler. "Benchmarking Spatial Big Data." In Specifying Big Data Benchmarks, LNCS, Volume 8163, pp. 81-93. Springer (2014)
• KwangSoo Yang et al., Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram: An Extended Abstract, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on GeoComputation (2013)
• Shekhar, Shashi, Viswanath Gunturi, Michael R. Evans, and KwangSoo Yang. "Spatial big-data challenges intersecting mobility and cloud computing." In Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, pp. 1-6. ACM (2012)

Poster

• KwangSoo Yang, Apurv Hirsh Shekhar, Dev Oliver, Shashi Shekhar: Capacity-Constrained Network-Voronoi Diagram (Extended Abstract), IEEE 32nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pages:1556-1557 (2016).

Technical Report

• KwangSoo Yang, Faizan Ur Rehman, Hatim Lahza, Saleh Basalamah, Shashi Shekhar, Arif Ghafoor, "Intelligent Shelter Allotment for Emergency Evacuation Planning: A Case Study of Makkah", HajjCore tech. report P1104-T1 (2012)

Patent

• Shortest Travel Path Determination Using Critical Start Time Points, Publication number: US20140058674 A1, Publication type: Application, Application number US 13/974,777, Publication date: Feb 27, 2014, Inventors: Shashi Shekhar, Venkata Maruti Viswanath Gunturi, KwangSoo Yang
• Conveyance planning using dartboard network, Publication number: WO2013172959 A2, Publication type: Application, Application number PCT/US2013/031478, Publication date: Nov 21, 2013, Inventors: Shashi Shekhar, KwangSoo Yang, Venkata Maruti Viswanath Gunturi
   

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Sponsored Research

Teaching

• COP 3540 Introduction to Database Structures
• COP 6726 New Directions in Database
• COP 6731 Theory and Implementation of Database Systems