Chairs

• Program co-chair of International Conference on Data Engineering (Industrial Track) (ICDE 2014)
• Demo co-Chair of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Databases (SSTD 2013)
• Session Chair of ACM SIGKDD conference onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012).
• Chair of CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL) on Urban Computing (Details)
• Industrial Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012)
• Program Chair of the 4th International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012)
• Program Chair of the International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2012)
• Session Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
• Program Co-Chair of the Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2011)
• Local Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
• Session Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2010)
• Session Chair of the second ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2010)
• Program Co-Chair of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)

Program Committee

2013

• PC of ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2013)
• PC of the IEEE international conference on Big Data (BigData 2013)
• PC of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Database (SSTD 2013)
• PC of ACM SIGKDD conference onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2013)
• PC of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013)
• PC of Asia-Pacific Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013)
• PC of the International conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2013)
• PC of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013)
• PC of the Industrial and application track in the Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2013)
• PC of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013) 

2012

• PC of ACM SIGKDD conference onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012)
• Senior PC of Asia-Pacific Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2012)
• International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012)
• PC of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012)
• PC of the 3rd International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2012)
• PC of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2012)
• PC of Nokia Mobile Data Challenge Workshop, in conjunction with Pervasive 2012
• PC of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2012)
• The Sixth International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UbiComm 2012)
• PC of the International Workshop on Context Discovery and Data Mining (ContextDD 2012)

2011

• The First International Symposium on Social and Community Intelligence (SCI 2011)
• PC of Ubicomp Workshop on Trajectory Data Mining and Analysis (TDMA 2011)
• PC of Ubicomp Workshop on Mobile Location-Based Services (MLBS 2011)
• PC of ACM Recommender systems workshop on personalization in mobile applications 2011
• PC of ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS 2011)
• PC of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)
• Local Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
• Senior PC of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
• PC of the International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011)
• PC of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011)
• PC of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Database (SSTD 2011)
• PC of the ACM Multimedia: Location-based and mobile multimedia Track (ACM MM 2011)
• PC of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2011)
• PC of Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2011)
• PC of the International Conference on Data Engineering and Internet Technology (DEIT 2011)
• PC of the 3rd International conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2011)
• PC of 9th International Symposium On Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2011)
• PC of International Conference on Advance of Computer Human Interaction (ACHI 2011)
• PC of the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM 2011)

2010

• PC of ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS 2010)
• PC of International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2010)
• PC of International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010)
• Session Chair of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2010)
• Session Chair of the second ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2010)
• PC of Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2010)
• PC of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2010)
• PC of 2nd International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services 2010 (MobiCASE 2010)
• PC of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Mutilmedia (MUM 2010)
• PC of the International Conference on Portable Lifestyle Devices (PLD 2010)
• PC of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS2010 workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2010)
• PC of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS2010 workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL 2010)
• PC of the fifth workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI'10)
• The fifth IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interactions (IASTED-HCI 2010)
• PC of WWW workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM 2010)
• PC of ACM SIGSPATIAL China 2010.
• PC of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2010)
• PC of International Conference on Advances in Computer Human Interaction (ACHI 2010)
• PC of MSRA Fellowship Program

2009

• PC of International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009)
• PC of International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009)
• PC chair of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)
• PC of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)
• PC of ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2009)
• PC of WWW workshop on Mashups, Enterprise Mashups and Lightweight Composition on the Web (MEM 2009)
• PC of the 4th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions 2009 (ICITST-2009)
• PC of International Conference on the Next Generation Wireless System (NGWS 2009)
• PC of International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems 2009 (Winsys 2009)
• PC of International Conference on Advance of Computer Human Interaction (ACHI 2009)
• PC of International Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2009 (HCI 2009)
• PC of International conference on Intelligent User Interface (IUI 2009)
• PC of MSRA Fellowship Program

2008

• PC of ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2008)
• PC of International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008)
• PC of International Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2008 (HCI 2008)
• PC of IEEE International Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies (ISBAST 2008)

Keynotes

• Keynote speech at the 9^th IEEE International conf. on Intelligent Environment (IE 2013), Athen, Greece, 2013.7.18
• Keynote speech at the World Geospatial Developers Conference (WGDC 2013), 2013.5.15, Beijing, China (over 2,500 audiences)
• Keynote speech at the China Annual Conference of GIS Theory and Methodology. 2012. Sept. Chengdu China.

• Editorial board of Journal of location-based services.
• Action editor of GeoInformatica. Springer.
• Guest editor of the special issue on Urban Computing at ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) 
• Editor-in-chief of the book "Computing with Spatial Trajectories", Springer.
• The Editorial Board of the International Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (ISBN 1876-1364)
• The Editorial Board of the International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems.
• The Editorial board of the International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications (ISSN 1942-2601) (IARIA)
• The Editorial board of the International Journal on Large Scale Data and Knowledge Centred Systems (LNCS)
• The Editorial advisory board of the International Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences.
• The Editorial board of Bahria University Journal of Information and Communication Technology
• The Book Reviewer of John Wiley and Sons

Tutorials

• A three-hour tutorial on Urban Computing, at CCF ADL, 2012.8.10 (Slides)
• A three-hour tutorial at WWW 2012, "Tutorial on Location-based social networks", 2012.4.17 (Sldies).
• An one-hour tutorial at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011, "Location-Based Social Networks". 2011.11.4 (Slides)

Media Interviews and Reports

• Urban Computing: Finding the intelligence from taxi trajectories, CEO&CIO, 2012.1 (In Chinese).
• "Taxicab data helps ease traffic". Future of Technology on MSNBC.com. 2011.9.30
• "GPS Data on Beijing Cabs Reveals the Cause of the Traffic Jams". MIT Technology Review, 2011.9.27. Featured on the first page.
• "Urban computing based on taxicabs". Reported by ACM TechNews. 2011.9.27
• "Customize a personalized driving route for you", MIT Technology Review, 2011.9.5 (In Chinese).
• "A driving route made just for you", MIT Technology Review, 2011.8.30.
• Adding cabbie know-how to online maps, MIT Technology Review, news featured on the first page, 2010.11.6
• Follow that cab! Racing Google Maps on city streets, NewScientist, 2010.11.5
• Dedicated Interview by ZOL.com, China Conferecen on World Wide Web (In Chinese)
• Day Day up 2009.10.23, The most popular entertainment TV program in China (In Chinese).
• GeoLife 2.0 interview on Microsoft Channel 10 (video), 2009
• Geolife 1.0 interview by CNET and Seattle Times (video), 2008
• Dedicated Interviewed by Sohu.com, Enlightening Research with Arts (In Chinese)
• Sina. The Magic of Dances (In Chinese), a chapter of the book "Microsoft's Dream Works"
• Sina. The Way to Microsoft (In Chinese), a chapter of the book "Microsoft's Dream Works"

Guest Lectures and Invited Talks

• Invited talk at The University of Melbourne, "Urban Computing: Using Big Data to Solve Urban Challenges", 2013.4.16
• Jointly invited talk at The University of Sydney and NICCTA, "Urban Computing: Using Big Data to Solve Urban Challenges", 2013.4.5
• Invited talk at Beijing Urban Planning Institute, "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.11.29
• Invited talk at Shanghai Jiaotong University, "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.11.21 (see more)
• Invited talk at National Taiwan University, "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.11.15
• Database colloquium in Cornell University, "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.9.17 (see more)
• Telecom Seminar in University of Pittsburgh. "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.9.15
• Guest lecture in Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), "Urban Computing with City Dynamics". 2012.9.11
• Invited talk at Institute of Information Sciences. "Urban Computing" 2012.5.10
• Invited talk at the AI forum 2012. "Urban Computing". 2012.5.12
• Guest lecture at National Chiao-Tong University of Taiwan. "Urban Computing" 2012.5.10 
• Guest Lecture at Barabasi Lab in North Eastern University (USA), "Urban Computing". 2012.4.12
• Guest lecture in MIT Media Lab, "Urban Computing: Using City Dynamics to Tackle the Biggest Challenges in Urban Spaces". (see more), 2012.4.10.
• Invited talk at Hadoop in China 2011, "Urban Computing". 2011.12.3 (Slides)
• Guest lecture at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Location-Based Social Networks". 2011.11.3 
• The invited talk in CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum, "Location-Based Social Networks". 2011.9.9
• The invited talk in CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum, "The Advance in Mobile Search". 2010.4.23
• Keynote Speaker of GPS/LBS Forum, Wireless China Industry Summit 2009, Location-Based Services on the Cloud. 2009.9
• Keynotes Speaker of GPS/LBS forum, Wireless China Industry Summit 2008, GPS 2.0
• MSRA lecture: "On Publication of the Research", March 23, 2011.
• The invited talk on Microsoft Location Summit 2010, T-Driver: Driving Directions Based on Taxi Traces. 2010,3.
• The invited talk in France Telecom (Orange Lab.), LBS on the cloud. 2009.9
• The invited talk on Microsoft Location Summit 2009, "GeoLife: a location-based social networking service"
• Invited talk in Samsung Electronic Research, GeoLife: Understanding User Behavior Geospatially

Ph.D. Thesis Examiners

• Kexin Xie, Supporting real-time query processing for advanced spatial database applications, University of Queensland, 2011
• Hyoseok Yoon, Enriching Control of End-Users by Active User Participation. Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 2012

Panelists

• Early Career Panel, at Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases (SSTD 2011).
• Mobile applications, Wireless China Industry Summit 2010
• Location-Based Services, Wireless China Industry Summit 2009
• Location-Based Services, Wireless China Industry Summit 2008

Reviewers

• The paper Reviewer of IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 2011, 2012
• The paper Reviewer of the VLDB Journal, 2010, 2011.
• The paper Reviewer of IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineer (TKDE), 2010, 2011.
• The paper Reviewer of ACM Transaction on the Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2010, 2011
• The Paper Reviewer of ACM Transaction on the Web, 2008
• The Paper Reviewer of International Journal on World Wild Web. 2009
• The Paper Reviewer of International Journal on Geographic Information Systems. 2012
• The Paper Reviewer of IEEE Journal on Intelligent Systems, 2009
• The Paper Reviewer of IEEE Multimedia special issue on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, 2010
• The Paper Reviewer of IEEE Transaction on Selected Area in Communication, 2006
• Reviewed paper for IEEE Network, IEEE Computer (2006)
• The Paper Reviewer of Internation Conference on WWW 2008, 2009, 2010
• The Paper Reviewer of ACM SIGKDD 2010.
• The Paper Reviewer of ACM Ubicomp 2010.
• The Paper Reviewer of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2008, 2009
• Reviewed paper for ACM Multimedia conference (ACM MM'07)
• The Paper Reviewer of MDM 2008, 2009
• Reviewed paper for International Conference on Communication (ICC'07) 
• The Book Reviewer of John Wiley and Sons