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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

John Krumm graduated from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1993 with a PhD in robotics and a thesis on texture analysis in images. He worked at the Robotics Center of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the next four years. His main projects there were computer vision for object recognition for use in robots and vehicles. He was at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, USA for 25 years, starting in 1997. His research focuses on understanding peoples' location and personal data privacy. In 2017 he received a 10-year impact award for a paper on location privacy from the ACM UbiComp conference, and another from the same conference in 2021. He received the best paper award at the ACM SIGSPATIAL conference in 2022 and at the Mobile Data Management conference in the same year. He is an inventor on 82 U.S. patents. Dr. Krumm was a PC chair for UbiComp 2007, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2013, and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014. He is a past coeditor in chief of the Journal of Location Based Services. He currently serves as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems and on the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. He is on the executive committee of ACM SIGSPATIAL and part of the Science Advisory Committee of the Geospatial Science and Human Security Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Ongoing
 
2022
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2021
  • PhD committee, Kien Nguyen, University of Southern California

  • Keynote talk "Valuing Personal Location Data" at 2021 Mobile Data Management Conference
     

2020
  • PhD co-advisor, Nabil Hossain, University of Rochester, "Exploring Creativity and Style in Language Generation"

  • Senior Program Committee, 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019)

  • Workshops Co-Chair, 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019)

  • Social Media Chair, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2020) and International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2020)

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2019

2018
  • Invited talk "Learning from Location" at 2018 Ford Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Conference

  • Invited talk "Learning from Location" at RIKEN Tokyo Workshop on Sequence and Trajectory Data Analysis

  • Invited talk "Curious True Facts About People and Location" at Symposium on Systems Science of Bio-Navigation 2018, Kyoto, Japan

  • Senior Program Committee, 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018)

  • Workshops Co-Chair, 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems(ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018)


2017
  • Volunteer high school computer science teacher, Lake Washington High School, Kirkland, WA (TEALS)
  • Keynote Talk - IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2017)
  • Social Media Chair, 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2017)

  • Social Media Chair, 2017 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2017)

  • Senior Program Committee, 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems(ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017)

  • Workshops Co-Chair, 25th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems(ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017)

  • Program Committee, 2017 Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicle Applications (AutomotiveUI 2017)

  • PhD Thesis Reviewer, Mengwen Xu, "Destination Prediction, POI Visitation Inference and Store Site Selection by Prediction on Massive Spatial-temporal Data," Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  • PhD Thesis Reviewer, Radu Mariescu-Istodor, "Efficient Management and Search of GPS Routes", University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

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2016
  • Senior Program Committee - 24th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2016)

  • PC Chair - Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization, Tracking, and Analysis (MELT 2016)

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2015
  • Keynote Talk - 1st IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop on Localization for Indoors, Outdoors, and Emerging Networks (LION 2015)

  • Keynote Talk - 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geostreaming (IWGS 2015)

  • Keynote Talk - 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial 2015)

  • PhD Committee - Scalable Predictive Query Processing for Moving Objects, Abdeltawab Hendawi, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota

  • Senior PC - 23rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015)

 

2014
  • Co-Editor in Chief - Journal of Location Based Services, 2012 - 2014 (JLBS)

  • Program Committee Co-Chair - 22nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014)

  • PhD Committee - Event Analytics on Social Media: Challenges and Solutions, Yuheng Hu, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Arizona State University

  • PhD Committee - Sensing and Navigation of Public Transportation Systems, James Biagioni, Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • PhD Committee - Modeling Mobile User Behavior for Anomaly Detection, Senaka Buthpitiya, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

 
2013
  • Keynote Talk - IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (Cybconf 2013)

  • Program Committee Co-Chair - 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013)

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2012
  • PhD Committee - A Self-Supervised Machine Learning Framework for Augmenting Cartographic Resources, Young-Woo Seo, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Program Committee - 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012)

  • Co-Organizer - Programming contest for 2012 ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference

  • Program Committee - 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012)

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2011
  • PhD Committee - Planning for Effective Environmental Coverage, Ling Xu, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  • Program Committee - 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011)

  • Program Committee - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011)

  • Program Committee - IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems

  • Program Committee - 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2011)

  • Keynote Talk - 8th IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2011)

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2010
  • Keynote Talk - 2nd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010)

  • Program Committee - Twelfth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

  • Doctoral Colloquium Panelist - Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)

  • Tutorial Presenter - Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)

  • Program Committee - Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2010)

  • Program Committee - 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2010)

  • Edited Book - Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals (Amazon)

 
2009
  • Editorial Board - IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine (link) (2006-2009)

  • Local Arrangements - 17th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2009)
  • Program Committee - Eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2009)
  • Program Committee - Fourth International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness (LoCA 2009)
  • Program Committee - First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information (Engaging Data 2009)
  • Program Committee - First International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009)

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2008

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  • PhD Examiner - Ontological Reasoning about Location for Indoor Pervasive Computing Environments, William Tse-Yun Niu, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney

  • Program Committee - Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2008)

  • Program Committee - Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008)

  • Tutorials Co-Chair - Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008)

  • Lead Guest Editor - "User-Generated Content", IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine

  • Program Committee - Second International Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Control Systems (IVCS 2008)

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2007
  • Program Co-Chair - Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007)

  • Tutorials Co-Chair - Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007)

  • Program Committee - Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2007)

  • Program Committee - International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS-07)

  • Program Committee - Third International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2007)

  • Program Committee - Second Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (AITAmI 2007)

 
2006
  • Program Committee - Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006)

  • Workshops Co-Chair - Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006)

  • Program Co-Chair - Second International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2006)

  • Program Committee - Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006)

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2005
  • Program Committee - Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH 2005)

  • Program Committee - Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005)

  • Program Committee - First International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2005)

  • Program Committee - Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005)

 

2004
  • Program Committee - 2004 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing (UbiLoc 2004)

  • Invited Speaker - Fourth Digital Human Research Center Workshop (DHRC 2004)

  • Invited Speaker - Second International Workshop on Man-Machine Symbiotic Systems (IWMMS 2004)

  • Program Committee - Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH 2004)

 

2003 and Earlier
  • Co-Organizer - 2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing (UbiLoc 2003)

  • Co-Organizer - 2003 IEEE Workshop on Multi-Object Tracking (WOMOT 2003)

  • Co-Organizer - 2001 IEEE Workshop on Multi-Object Tracking (WOMOT 2001)

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