10-Year Impact Award

Local persistent homology based distance between maps Mahmuda Ahmed (Google), Brittany Terese Fasy (Montana State University, MT, USA), Carola Wenk (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)

10-Year Impact Award Runners-Up

LORE: Exploiting Sequential Influence for Location Recommendations ia-Dong Zhang (In Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China), Chi-Yin (Ted) Chow (Independant Consultant and IT Advisor), Yanhua Li (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI))

Best Research Paper Award

Urban Mobility Assessment Using LLMs Prabin Bhandari, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Dieter Pfoser

Best Paper Runners-Up

Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks by a Scale-Space Method, Haoan Feng, Yunting Song and Leila De Floriani

Best Research Paper: Candidates

  • Critical Features Tracking on Triangulated Irregular Networks by a Scale-Space Method Haoan Feng, Yunting Song and Leila De Floriani
  • Urban Mobility Assessment Using LLMs Prabin Bhandari, Antonios Anastasopoulos and Dieter Pfoser:
  • DeepSoil: A Science-guided Framework for Generating High Precision Soil Moisture Maps by Reconciling Measurement Profiles Across In-situ and Remote Sensing Data Paahuni Khandelwal, Sangmi Lee Pallickara and Shrideep Pallickara:
  • Transferable Unsupervised Outlier Detection Framework for Human Semantic Trajectories Zheng Zhang, Hossein Amiri, Dazhou Yu, Yuntong Hu, Liang Zhao and Andreas Züfle

Best Industry & Systems Paper

Accurate Customer Address Matching via Weak Supervision for Geocode Learning Arpan Paul, Saket Maheshwary and Saurabh Sohoney

Best Vision Paper

Beyond the Commute: Unlocking the Potential of Electric Vehicles as Future Energy Storage Solutions Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hao Wang, Wei Wang, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Egemen Tanin, Jianzhong Qi, Hanan Samet

Best Demo Award

Pyneapple-L: Scalable Expressive Learning-based Spatial Analysis Yongyi Liu (University of California, Riverside), Nicolas Lee (University of Southern California), Yunfan Kang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Mohammad Reza Shahneh (University of California, Riverside), Ahmed Mahmood (Google LLC.), Vishal Rohith Chinnam (University of California, Riverside), Aparna Vivek Sarawadekar (University of California, Riverside), Samet Oymak (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor), Ibrahim Sabek (University of Southern California), Amr Magdy (University of California, Riverside)

Best Demo Runner-Up

StopTracker: Real-time Monitoring of Visitor Stops and Preferences Using UWB Trajectory Streams Fatima Hachem (University of Milan), Venkata Sudheer Raj Siddabattula (University of Milan), Davide Vecchia (University of Trento), Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento), Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan)

Best Poster Award

Query Compilation based Distributed Morsel-driven Parallel Spatial Query Processing Rahul Sahni (University of New Brunswick), Xiaozheng Zhang (University of New Brunswick), Sudip Chatterjee (University of New Brunswick), Suprio Ray (University of New Brunswick)

Best Poster Runner-Up

Routing As a Relevance System Dragomir Yankov (Microsoft), Antonios Karatzoglou (Microsoft), Chiqun Zhang (Microsoft), Oussama Dhifallah (Microsoft), Michael R. Evans (Microsoft), Florin Sabau (Microsoft), Maryam Najafabadi (Microsoft), Goran Predovic (Microsoft)

SRC 2024 Graduate Winner

Towards Scalable and Expressive Spatial Grouping Queries Yongyi Liu (University of California, Riverside)

SRC 2024 Undergraduate Winners

SimDeep: An Efficient Federated Learning Indoor Localization System with Similarity Aggregation Strategy Ahmed Jaheen, Sarah Elsamanody, Hamada Rizk, Moustafa Youssef(The American University in Cairo)

GISCup 2024 Award

  • Large-Scale Optimization of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Chuan Li, Shunyu Zhao Vincent GAUTHIER, Hassine MOUNGLA
  • Optimal Location of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Using Geospatial Big Data_ Zhihang Liu
  • Optimizing the locations of electric vehicle charging stations in Georgia, USA_ Zixin Feng, Xinyan Xian, Yahya Gamal, Qunshan Zhao, Alison Heppenstall

Distinguished PC Members and Vice-PC Chairs

  • Man Lung Yiu
  • Samriddhi Singla
  • Gao Cong
  • Kostas Patroumpas
  • Abdeltawab Hendawi
  • Bruno Martins
  • Xin Zhang
  • Kyriakos Mouratidis
  • Reynold Cheng
  • Dimitrios Skoutas
  • Chen-Chieh Feng
  • Michael Mcguire
  • Roger Zimmerman
  • Randolph Franklin
  • Goce Trajcevski
  • Carola Wenk
  • John Krumm
  • Lars Kulik