People

Gabriel Spadon, PhD

Dr. Spadon is the director of MAPS Labs hosted at Dalhousie University, Halifax - NS, Canada, where he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science on the Big Data Analytics, AI & Machine Learning research cluster. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Sao Paulo - USP, Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil. His research focuses on spatiotemporal analytics, time-series forecasting, and complex network mining, with large involvement with data science, engineering, and geoinformatics.

PhD in Computer Science

Md Mahbub Alam

2024 - current

Md Mahbub Alam

Spatio-Temporal Analytics, Machine Learning

Master's in Computer Science

Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran

2024 - current

Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran

Machine Learning, Trajectory Forecasting, Mobility Data Mining
Wayne Renaud

2024 - current

Wayne Renaud

Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining
Zahra Tavakolirad

2024 - current

Zahra Tavakolirad

Machine Learning, Outlier Detection, Data Analytics

Research Assistants

Jinkun Chen

2024 - current

Jinkun Chen

Explainable AI, Model Fairness, Model Editing, AI4Science
Ruixin Song

2024 - current

Ruixin Song

Mobility Data Mining, Complex Networks, Deep Learning

International Collaborations

Amilcar Soares, PhD

Linnaeus University, Växjö - Sweden

Amilcar Soares, PhD

Mobility Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Mining, AI
Danilo Eler, PhD

Sao Paulo State University, SP - Brazil

Danilo Eler, PhD

Visual Analytics, Visual Data Mining, Explainable AI, Data Science
Jose Rodrigues, PhD

University of Sao Paulo, SP - Brazil

Jose Rodrigues, PhD

Graph Analysis, Machine Learning, Visual Data Analysis, E-Learning

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