Selected Publications

Our work spans across both Ubiquitous and Networked Systems (e.g., IMWUT/UbiComp, MobiCom, SenSys, SIGCOMM, NSDI, ICCPS, ICRA) and Data Science (e.g., KDD, WWW, CIKM, SIGSPATIAL, ICDE). The underlined authors are my advised/mentored students.

Preprint

• Design and Evaluation of Generative Agent-based Platform for Human-Assistant Interaction Research: A Tale of 10 User Studies
  Ziyi (Selina) Xuan, Yiwen Wu, Xuhai "Orson" Xu, Vinod Namboodiri, Mooi Choo Chuah, Yu Yang
  

• Language-centered Human Activity Recognition
  Hua Yan, Heng Tan, Yi Ding, Pengfei Zhou, Vinod Namboodiri, Yu Yang
  

• LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning: Addressing Training Bottlenecks through Policy Modulation
  Heng Tan, Hua Yan, Yu Yang
  

2025

• [IJCAI'25] HCRide: Harmonizing Passenger Fairness and Driver Preference for Human-Centered Ride-Hailing
  Lin Jiang, Yu Yang, Guang Wang
  

• [SenSys'25] Demo: GIDEA: Generative AI-Powered Interactive Design and Evaluation Platform for Assistant Agent Research
  Selina Xuan, Yiwen Wu, Yu Yang
  

2024

• [CIKM'24] MalLight: Influence-Aware Coordinated Traffic Signal Control for Traffic Signal Malfunctions
  Qinchen Yang, Zejun Xie, Hua Wei, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [ICRA'24] Human Preference-aware Rebalancing and Charging for Shared Electric Micromobility Vehicles
  Heng Tan, Yukun Yuan, Hua Yan, Shuxin Zhong, Yu Yang
  

• [WWW'24] Robust Route Planning under Uncertain Pickup Requests for Last-mile Delivery
  Hua Yan, Heng Tan, Haotian Wang, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [KDD'24] Urban-Focused Multi-Task Offline Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive Data Sharing
  Xinbo Zhao, Yingxue Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yu Yang, Yiqun Xie, Yanhua Li, and Jun Luo
  

• [ICDM'24] Align Along Time and Space: A Graph Latent Diffusion Model for Traffic Dynamics Prediction
  Yuhang Liu, Yingxue Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yu Yang, Yiqun Xie, Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani, Yanhua Li, and Jun Luo
  

2023

• [CIKM'23] Joint Rebalancing and Charging for Shared Electric Micromobility Vehicles with Energy-informed Demand
  Heng Tan, Yukun Yuan, Shuxin Zhong, Yu Yang (Best Paper Award)
  

• [CIKM'23] Logistics Audience Expansion via Temporal Knowledge Graph
  Hua Yan, Yingqiang Ge, Haotian Wang, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [CIKM'23] Identifying Regional Driving Risks via Transductive Cross-City Transfer Learning Under Negative Transfer
  Hua Yan, Hao Wang, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [CIKM'23] RLIFE: Remaining Lifespan Prediction for E-scooters
  Shuxin Zhong, William Yubeaton, Wenjun Lyu, Guang Wang, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [CIKM'23] CARPG: Cross-City Knowledge Transfer for Traffic Accident Prediction via Attentive Region-level Parameter Generation
  Guang Yang, Yuequn Zhang, Jinquan Hang, Xinyue Feng, Zejun Xie, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [ICCPS'23] Poster: Joint Rebalancing and Charging for Shared Electric Micromobility Vehicles with Human-system Interaction
  Heng Tan, Yukun Yuan, Shuxin Zhong, Yu Yang
  

2022

• [ICDE'22] O2-SiteRec: Store Site Recommendation under the O2O Model via Multi-graph Attention Networks
  Hua Yan, Shuai Wang, Yu Yang, Baoshen Guo, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
  [Video]

• [ICDCS'22] BikeCAP: Deep Spatial-temporal Capsule Network for Multi-step Bike Demand Prediction
  Shuxin Zhong, Wenjun Lyu, Desheng Zhang, Yu Yang
  

• [CIKM'22] Towards Fair Workload Assessment via Homogeneous Order Grouping in Last-mile Delivery
  Wenjun Lyu, Kexin Zhang, Baoshen Guo, Zhiqing Hong, Guang Yang, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang
  

• [SIGSPATIAL'22] FastAddr: Real-time Abnormal Address Detection via Contrastive Augmentation for Location-based Services
  Zhiqing Hong, Heng Yang, Haotian Wang, Wenjun Lyu, Yu Yang, Guang Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Yang Wang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [KDD'22] Para-Pred: Addressing Heterogeneity for City-Wide Indoor Status Estimation in On-Demand Delivery
  Wei Liu, Yi Ding, Shuai Wang, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'22] P2-Loc: A Person-2-Person Indoor Localization System in On-Demand Delivery
  Yi Ding, Dongzhe Jiang, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'22] Mover: Generalizability Verification of Human Mobility Models via Heterogeneous Use Cases
  Wenjun Lyu, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [Scientific Reports] A Long-term Travel Delay Measurement Study based on Multi-Modal Human Mobility Data
  Zhihan Fang, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Fan Zhang, Yang Wang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [TON] Nationwide Deployment and Operation of a Virtual Arrival Detection System in the Wild
  Yi Ding, Yu Yang, Wenchao Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
  

2021 and Before

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'21] ALWAES: Automatic Location-Aware Correction System for Online Delivery Platforms
  Dongzhe Jiang, Yi Ding, Hao Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Yu Yang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'21] CellSense: Human Mobility Recovery via Cellular Network Data Enhancement
  Zhihan Fang, Yu Yang, Guang Yang, Yikun Xian, Fan Zhang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [KDD'21] MoCha: Large-Scale Driving Pattern Characterization for Usage-based Insurance
  Zhihan Fang, Guang Yang, Dian Zhang, Xiaoyang Xie, Guang Wang, Yu Yang, Fan Zhang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [SIGCOMM'21] Nationwide Deployment and Operation of a Virtual Arrival Detection System in the Wild
  Ding Yi, Yu Yang, Wenchao Jiang, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
  [Dataset]

• [NSDI'21] From Conception to Retirement: a Lifetime Story of a 3-Year-Old Operational Wireless Beacon System in the Wild
  Yi Ding, Ling Liu, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
  [Dataset]

• [TON] From Conception to Retirement: a Lifetime Story of a 3-Year-Old Operational Wireless Beacon System in the Wild
  Ding Yi, Ling Liu, Yu Yang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang, Tian He
  

• [MobiCom'20] TransLoc: Transparent Indoor Localization with Uncertain Human Participation for Instant Delivery
  Yu Yang, Ding Yi, Dengpan Yuan, Guang Wang, Xiaoyang Xie, Yunhuai Liu, Tian He, Desheng Zhang
  [Dataset] [Short video] [Long video]

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'20] Extending Coverage of Stationary Sensing Systems with Mobile Sensing Systems for Human Mobility Modeling
  Yu Yang, Zhihan Fang, Xiaoyang Xie, Fan Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang (UbiComp Audience Award)
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'20] CellPred: A Behavior-aided Scheme for Cellular Data Usage Prediction
  Zhou Qin, Fang Cao, Yu Yang, Shuai Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Chang Tan, Desheng Zhang
  

• [TMC] VeMo: Enabling Transparent Vehicular Mobility Modeling at Individual Levels with Full Penetration
  Yu Yang, Xiaoyang Xie, Zhihan Fang, Fan Zhang, Yang Wang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [MobiCom'19] VeMo: Enabling Transparent Vehicular Mobility Modeling at Individual Levels with Full Penetration
  Yu Yang, Xiaoyang Xie, Zhihan Fang, Fan Zhang, Yang Wang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'19] MAC: Measuring the Impacts of Anomalies on Travel Time of Multiple Transportation Systems
  Zhihan Fang, Yu Yang, Shuai Wang, Boyang Fu, Zixing Song, Fan Zhang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'19] coSense: Collaborative Urban-Scale Vehicle Sensing based on Heterogeneous Fleets
  Xiaoyang Xie, Yu Yang, Zhihan Fang, Guang Wang, Fan Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yunhuai Liu, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'18] SharedEdge: GPS-Free Fine-Grained Travel Time Estimation in State-Level Highway Systems
  Yu Yang, Fan Zhang, Desheng Zhang
  

• [IMWUT/UbiComp'17] Your Search Path Tells Others Where to Park: Towards Fine-Grained Parking Availability Crowdsourcing Using Parking Decision Models
  Ruilin Liu, Yu Yang, Daehan Kwak, Desheng Zhang, Liviu Iftode, Badri Nath