Huy T. Vo

 

Associate Professor (CS@CUNY–CCNY)

NAC 8/203A

160 Convent Avenue

New York, NY 10031


Research Associate Professor (NYU Tandon CSE)

370 Jay St, 11th Floor

Brooklyn, NY 11201

  1. •Big Data Analytics

  2. •Large-scale Visualization

  3. •High-Performance Computing

Research Interests


Publications Google Scholar

Book Chapters

  1. Programming with Big Data
    H. Vo, and C. Silva
    Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools, pp. 125-144, 2016

  2. VisTrails
    D. Koop, E. Santos, C. Scheidegger, H. Vo, C. Silva, and J. Freire
    The Architecture of Open-Source Applications, pp. 377-394, 2011

Journal Publications

  1. Efficient spatial data partitioning for distributed kNN joins [paper]
    A. Zeidan, and H. Vo
    Journal of Big Data (JBD), 9(1):77, 2022

  2. Evaluating Asthma Mobile Apps to Improve Asthma Self- Management: A User Ratings and Sentiment Analysis of Publicly Available Apps [paper]
    M. Camacho-Rivera, H. Vo, X. Huang, J. Lau, Adeola Lawal, and A. Kawaguchi
    Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), 8(10), 2020

  3. GeoMatch: Efficient Large-Scale Map Matching on Apache Spark [paper]
    A. Zeidan, E. Lagerspetze, K. Zhao, S. Tarkoma, and H. Vo
    ACM Transactions on Data Science (TDS), 1(3):1-30, 2020

  4. Predicting Taxi and Uber Demand in Cities: Approaching the Limit of Predictability [paper]
    K. Zhao, D. Khryashchev, and H. Vo
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 33(6):2723-2736, 2019

  5. AMIC: An Adaptive Information Theoretic Method to Identify Multi-Scale Temporal Correlations in Big Time Series
    Data     [paper]
    N. Ho, H. Vo, M. Vu, and T. Pedersen
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 7(1):128-146, 2019

  6. STaRS: Simulating Taxi Ride Sharing at Scale [paper]
    M. Ota, H. Vo, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 3(3):349-361, 2017

  7. Exploring What not to Clean in Urban Data: A Study Using New York City Taxi Trips [paper]
    J. Freire, A. Bessa, F. Chirigati, H. Vo, and K. Zhao
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 39(2):63-77, 2016

  8. Topology-based Catalogue Exploration Framework for Identifying View-Enhanced Tower Designs [paper]
    N. Ferreira, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, H. Vo, L. Wilson, H. Werner, M. Park, and C. Silva
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34(6):230:1-13, 2015 (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015)

  9. Dynamics of the Urban Lightscape [paper]
    G. Dobler, M. Ghandehari, S. Koonin, R. Nazari, A. Patrinos, M. Sharma, A. Tafvizi, H. Vo, and J. Wurtele
    Elsevier Information Systems, 54(C):115-126, 2015

  10. Exploring Traffic Dynamics in Urban Environments Using Vector-Valued Functions [paper]
    J. Poco, H. Doraiswamy, H. Vo, J. Comba, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    Computer Graphics Forum (in proceedings of EuroVis 2015), 34(3):161-170, 2015

  11. Riding from Urban Data to Insight Using New York City Taxis [paper]
    J. Freire, C. Silva, H Vo, H. Doraiswamy, N. Ferreira, and J. Poco
    IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 37(4):43-55, 2014

  12. The More the Merrier: Efficient Multi-Source Graph Traversal [paper]
    M. Then, M. Kaufmann, F. Chirigati, T. Vu, K, Pham, A. Kemper, T. Neumann, and H. Vo
    PVLDB, 8(4):449-460, 2014

  13. Visual exploration of big spatio-temporal urban data: A study of new york city taxi trips [paper] [Web]
    N. Ferreira, J. Poco, H. Vo, J. Freire, C. Silva
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 19(12):2149-2158, 2013 (Proceedings of IEEE VIS 2013)

  14. Simple and Efficient Mesh Layout with Space-filling Curves [paper] [Web]
    H. Vo, C. Silva, L. Scheidegger, and V. Pascucci.
    Journal of Graphics, GPU and Game Tools (JGT), 16(1):25-39, 2012

  15. Streaming-Enabled Parallel Data Flow Framework in the Visualization ToolKit
    H. Vo, J. Comba, B. Geveci, C. Silva
    Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE), Visualization Corner, 13(3):72-83, 2011

  16. Streaming-Enabled Parallel Dataflow Architecture for Multicore Systems [paper]
    H. Vo, D. Osmari, B. Summa, J. Comba, V. Pascucci and C. Silva
    Computer Graphics Forum (in proceedings of EuroVis 2010), 29(3):1073-1082, 2010

  17. Tackling the Provenance Challenge One Layer at a Time [paper]
    C. Scheidegger, D. Koop, E. Santos, H. Vo, S. Callahan, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    Concurrency And Computation: Practice And Experience, 20(5):473–483, 2008

  18. Special Issue: The First Provenance Challenge
    L. Moreau, B. Ludscher, I. Altintas, R. Barga, S. Bowers, S. Callahan, G. Chin Jr., B. Clifford, S. Cohen, S. Boulakia, S. Davidson, E. Deelman, L. Digiampietri, I. Foster, J. Freire, J. Frew, J. Futrelle, T. Gibson, Y. Gil, C. Goble, J. Golbeck, P. Groth, D. Holland, S. Jiang, J. Kim, D. Koop, A. Krenek, T. McPhillips, G. Mehta, S. Miles, D. Metzger, S. Munroe, J. Myers, B. Plale, N. Podhorszki, V. Ratnakar, E. Santos, C. Scheidegger, K. Schuchardt, M. Seltzer, Y. Simmhan, C. Silva, P. Slaughter, E. Stephan, R. Stevens, D. Turi, H. Vo, M. Wilde, J. Zhao, and Y. Zhao
    Concurrency And Computation: Practice And Experience, 20(5):409-418, 2008

  19. Querying and Creating Visualizations by Analogy [paper]
    C. Scheidegger, H. Vo, D. Koop, J. Freire, C. Silva
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(6):1560-1567 (in proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2007)
    Best paper award

  20. Streaming Simplification for Tetrahedral Meshes [paper]
    H. Vo, S. Callahan, P. Lindstrom, V. Pascucci, and C. Silva
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13(1):145-155, 2007

Refereed Conference Publications

  1. UnityPIC: Unity Point-Cloud Interactive Core [paper]
    Y. Wu, H. Vo, J. Gong, and Z. Zhu
    In proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV) 2021

  2. Partially Monotone Dependence [paper]
    D. Khryashchev, H. Vo, and R. Haralick
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2020

  3. Tackling the Neighboring Network Hit Problem in Cellular Data [paper]
    A. Leiva- Araos, D. Khryashchev, H.Allende-Cid, and H. Vo
    IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Symposium on Intelligent Data Mining, 2019

  4. DrugTracker: A Community-focused Drug Abuse Monitoring and Supporting System using Social Media and Geospatial Data (Demo) [paper]
    H. Hu, H. Phan, X. Ye, R. Jin, K. Ding, D. Dou, and H. Vo
    ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019

  5. Who Watches What: Forecasting Viewership for the Top 100 TV Networks [paper]
    D. Khryashchev, A. Papiu, J.Xuan, O. Dinica, K. Hubert, and H. Vo
    The 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet, 2019

  6. An Ensemble Deep Learning Model for Drug Abuse Detection in Sparse Twitter-sphere [paper]
    H. Hu, H. Phan, J.Geller, H. Vo, S. Di lezzi, X. Huang, S. Lorio, T. Dinh, and S. Chun
    IEEE BIBM 2018

  7. GeoMatch: Efficient Large-Scale Map Matching on Apache Spark [paper]
    A. Zeidan, E. Lagerspetze, K. Zhao, S. Tarkoma, andH. Vo
    IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) 2018

  8. An Adaptive Information-Theoretic Approach for Identifying Temporal Correlations in Big Data Sets [paper]
    N. Ho, H. Vo, and M. Vu
    In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) 2016

  9. Predicting Taxi Demand at High Spatial Resolution: Approaching the Limit of Predictability [paper]
    K. Zhao, D. Khryashchev, J. Freire, C. Silva, and H. Vo
    In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) 2016

  10. Urban Human Mobility Data Mining: An Overview [paper]
    K. Zhao, S. Tarkoma, S. Liu, and H. Vo
    In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) 2016, Special Session on Intelligent Data Mining

  11. A Unified Index for Spatio-Temporal Keyword Queries [paper]
    T.A. Hoang-Vu, H. Vo, and J. Freire
    In proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2016

  12. A GPU-Based Index to Support Interactive Spatio-Temporal Queries over Historical Data [paper]
    H. Doraiswamy, H. Vo, C. Silva and J. Freire
    In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2016

  13. A Scalable Approach for Data-Driven Taxi Ride-Sharing Simulation [paper]
    M. Ota, H. Vo, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of IEEE BigData 2015

  14. Urbane: A 3D Framework to Support Data Driven Decision Making in Urban Development [paper] [Video]
    N. Ferreira, M. Lage, H. Doraiswamy, H. Vo, L. Wilson, H. Werner, M. Park, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of IEEE VAST 2015

  15. Baseball4D: A Tool for Baseball Game Reconstruction & Visualization
    C. Dietrich, D. Koop, H. Vo, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of IEEE VAST 2014

  16. Visualization and Analysis of Parallel Dataflow Execution with Smart Traces [paper]
    D. Osmari, L. Lins, H. Vo, J. Comba, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of SIBGRAPI 2014

  17. HyperFlow: A Heterogeneous Dataflow Architecture [paper]
    H. Vo, D. Osmari, J. Comba, P. Lindstrom, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), pp. 1-10, 2012

  18. Parallel Large-data Visualization with Display Walls [paper]
    L. Scheidegger, H. Vo, J. Kruger, C. Silva and J. Comba.
    In proceedings IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2012, Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), 82940C, 2012

  19. Parallel Visualization on Large Clusters using MapReduce [paper]
    H. Vo, J. Bronson, B. Summa, J. Comba, J. Freire, B. Howe, V. Pascucci, and C. Silva
    IEEE Symposium on Large-scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), pp. 81-88, 2011

  20. Massive Image Editing on the Cloud [paper]
    B. Summa, H. Vo, V. Pascucci and C. Silva
    In proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computational Photography (CPhoto), 2011

  21. A Provenance-based Infrastructure for Creating Executable Papers
    D. Koop, E. Santos, P. Mates, H. Vo, P. Bonnet, B. Bauer, B. Surer, M. Troyer, D. Williams, J. Tohline, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    Procedia Computer Science, 4:648-657, 2011. ICCS 2011
    Grand Challenge Finalist

  22. Using Workflow Medleys to Streamline Exploratory Tasks [paper]
    E. Santos, D. Koop, H. Vo, E. Anderson, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    In proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), pp. 292-301, 2009

  23. Querying and Re-Using Workflows with VisTrails
    C. Scheidegger, H. Vo, D. Koop, J. Freire, and C. Silva
    ACM SIGMOD 2008

  24. iRun: Interactive Rendering of Large Unstructured Grids [paper]
    H. Vo, S. P. Callahan, N. Smith, C. T. Silva, W. Martin, D. Owen, D. Weinstein
    In proceedings of Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV), pp. 93-100, 2007

  25. VisTrails: Visualization meets Data Management [paper]
    S. Callahan, J. Freire, E. Santos, C. Scheidegger, C. Silva and H. Vo
    ACM SIGMOD 2006

  26. VisTrails: Enabling Interactive Multiple-View Visualizations [paper]
    L. Bavoil, S. Callahan, P. Crossno, J. Freire, C. Scheidegger, C. Silva, and H. Vo
    In proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, pp. 135–142, 2005

Refereed Workshop Publications

  1. An Urban Data Profiler [paper]
    D. Ribeiro, H. Vo, J. Freire and C. Silva
    WWW Workshop on Data Science and Smart Cities, 2015

  2. Yellow Cabs as Red Corpuscles [paper]
    T. Savage, and H. Vo
    IEEE Workshop on Big Data and Smarter Cities, in proceedings of IEEE BigData Conference, pp. 22-28, 2013

  3. A Display Wall Management System to Support Multiple User Interaction [paper] [Video]
    W. Silva, H. Vo, D. Osmari, and C. Silva
    POWERWALL: International Workshop on Interactive, Ultra-High-Resolution Displays, part of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013

  4. Towards Provenance-Enabling ParaView [paper]
    S. Callahan, J. Freire, C. Scheidegger, C. Silva, and H. Vo
    Second International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), 2008

  5. Managing Rapidly-Evolving Scientific Workflows [paper]
    J. Freire, C. Silva, S. Callahan, E. Santos, C. Scheidegger and H. Vo
    In proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), 2006

  6. Managing the Evolution of Dataflows with VisTrails [paper]
    S. Callahan, J. Freire, E. Santos, C. Scheidegger, C. Silva, and H. Vo
    IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications (SciFlow) 2006