Name: Lai Tu

Academic Title: Associate Professor

Email: tulai@hust.edu.cn

Research Interests:

Spatio-temporal big data mining and knowledge discovery, User behavior perception and modeling, Urban computing and intelligent transportation

Education:

Ph. D degree, Information and Communication System, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2002-2007

B.Eng degree, Communications Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1998-2002

Employment and Working Experience:

Associate Professor, School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2011-present

Assistant Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 2009- 2010

Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2010-2011

Visiting Scholar, University of Minnesota，Twin Cities, 2015-2016

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Station of Electronics Science, Huazhong University of Science and Engineering, 2007-2008

Teaching:

Fundamentals of Information Theory, Design and Experiment of Electronic Circuit

Selected Publications:

1.J. Zhang, D. Shen, L. Tu, F. Zhang and C. Xu, "A Real-Time Passenger Flow Estimation and Prediction Method for Urban Bus Transit Systems," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1–11, 2017.         

2.K. He, Z. Xu, P. Wang, L. Deng, and L. Tu, "Congestion Avoidance Routing Based on Large-Scale Social Signals," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 2613–2626, Sep. 2016.         

3.J. Zhao F. Zhang, L. Tu, C. Xu, and D. Shen, "Estimation of Passenger Route Choice Pattern Using Smart Card Data for Complex Metro Systems," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1–12, 2016.         

4.Z. Tian, T. Jung, Y. Wang, F. Zhang and L. Tu, "Real-Time Charging Station Recommendation System for Electric-Vehicle Taxis," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1–12, 2016.         

5.D. Hu, B. Huang, L. Tu, and S. Chen, "Understanding Social Characteristic from Spatial Proximity in Mobile Social Network," International Journal of Computers Communications & Control, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 539–550, Aug. 2015.         

6.F. Xiang, B. Huang, L. Tu, and D. Hu, "Inferring Geographical Partitions by Exploiting User Mobility in Urban Area," IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. E97–D, no. 10, pp. 2623–2631, Oct. 2014.         

7.L. Tu, S.-Y. Lin, and C.-M. Huang, "Analysis of the scope of cooperative bandwidth sharing among mobile routers in vehicular networks," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2014, no. 1, p. 130, Aug. 2014.         

8.Z. Wang, L. Tu, Z. Guo, L. T. Yang, and B. Huang, "Analysis of user behaviors by mining large network data sets," Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 37, pp. 429–437, Jul. 2014.         

9.Z. Guo, B. Huang, F. Wang, and L. Tu, "Traffic Congestion Detecting Based on Cellular Network," Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 1053–1060, 2013.         

10.L. Tu and C.-M. Huang, "Collaborative Content Fetching Using MAC Layer Multicast in Wireless Mobile Networks," IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 695–706, Sep. 2011.         

11.L. Tu and C.-M. Huang, "Forwards: A Map-Free Intersection Collision-Warning System for All Road Patterns," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 3233–3248, Sep. 2010.         

Conference Paper                             

1.Si Zhao, Hongwei Wu, Lai Tu, and Benxiong Huang, "Segmentation of Urban Areas Using Vector-based Model," presented at the The 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-2014), Bali, Indonesia, 2014.         

2.Shu Chen, Hongwei Wu, Lai Tu, and Benxiong Huang, "Identifying Hot Lines of Urban Spatial Structure using Cellphone Call Detail Record Data," presented at the The 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-2014), Bali, Indonesia, 2014.         

3.Junhua Yan, Chen Tian, Wenyu Liu, Lai Tu, and Benxiong Huang, "Multi-source Broadcast Scheduling Algorithm of Barrage Relay Network in Tactical MANET," presented at the The 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-2014), Bali, Indonesia, 2014.         

4.J. Zhang, X. Yu, C. Tian, F. Zhang, L. Tu, and C. Xu, "Analyzing passenger density for public bus: Inference of crowdedness and evaluation of scheduling choices," in 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2014, pp. 2015–2022.    

5.Z. Tian, Y. Wang, C. Tian, F. Zhang, L. Tu, and C. Xu, "Understanding operational and charging patterns of Electric Vehicle taxis using GPS records," in 17th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2014, pp. 2472–2479.    

6.F. Xiang, L. Tu, B. Huang, and X. Yin, "Region Partition Using User Mobility Patterns Based on Topic Model," in 2013 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2013, pp. 484–489.         

7.F. Sun, J. Zhang, L. Tu, and B. Huang, "What We Use to Predict a Mobile-Phone Users’ Status in Campus?," in 2013 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2013, pp. 1238–1241.         

8.C.-M. Huang, S. Y. Lin, Y.-C. Lin, and L. Tu, "Analysis of the Optimal Cooperation Scope of Bandwidth Sharing in vehicular networks," in 2013 13th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST), 2013, pp. 62–67.         

9.F. Xiang, L. Tu, and B. Huang, "Inferring Barriers of Urban City Using Mobile Phone Record," in Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2013 IEEE and Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), IEEE International Conference on and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 2013, pp. 850–855.         

10.D. Hu, F. Sun, L. Tu, and B. Huang, "We Know What You Are–A User Classification Based on Mobile Data," in Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2013 IEEE and Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), IEEE International Conference on and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 2013, pp. 1282–1289.         

11.D. Hu, S. Chen, L. Tu, and B. Huang, "Detecting Geographic Community in Mobile Social Network," in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2012, pp. 343–347.         

12.C.-M. Huang, L. Tu, and C.-H. . Chou, "ReWarn: An opportunistic relay scheme for cooperative collision warning in VANET," in 2009 IEEE 20th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2009, pp. 3030–3034.