Research

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• • Md Mahbub Alam, José F. Rodrigues-Jr, Gabriel Spadon, "Multi-vessel Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction and Collision Risk Assessment", arXiv preprint, 2025 [PDF] 

  • Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran, Dilith Jayakody, Samruddhi Mulay, Anand Lo, Md Mahbub Alam, Gabriel Spadon, "Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning for Data-Driven Maritime Navigation", arXiv preprint, 2025 [PDF]

  • Gabriel Spadon, Ruixin Song, Vaishnav Vaidheeswaran, Md Mahbub Alam, Floris Goerlandt, Ronald Pelot, "Learning Spatio-Temporal Vessel Behavior via Markovian Models in the Gulf of St. Lawrence", arXiv preprint, 2025 [PDF] 

  • Md Mahbub Alam, Amilcar Soares, José F. Rodrigues-Jr, Gabriel Spadon, "Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Vessel Trajectory Prediction: Learning Time-Discretized Kinematic Dynamics via Finite Differences", In 19th Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Data (SSTD'25), August 25-27, 2025, Osaka, Japan (Selected among best SSTD papers) [preprint]

  • Md Mahbub Alam, Gabriel Spadon, Mohammad Etemad, Luis Torgo, and Evangelos Milios, "Enhancing Short-term Vessel Trajectory Prediction with Clustering for Heterogeneous and Multi-modal Movement Patterns", Ocean Engineering, 2024 [PDF]

  • Md Mahbub Alam, and Luis Torgo, "A Clustering-based Approach for Predicting the Future Location of a Vessel", In Proceedings of the 35th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022 [PDF]

  • Md Mahbub Alam, Luis Torgo, and Albert Bifet, "A Survey on Spatio-temporal Data Analytics Systems", ACM Computing Survey, 2021 [PDF]

  • Puya Memarzia, Maria Patrou, Md Mahbub Alam, Suprio Ray, Virendra C. Bhavsar, and Kenneth B. Kent, "Toward Efficient Processing of Spatio-temporal Workloads in a Distributed In-memory System", The 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'19), Hong Kong, 2019 (Acceptance rate 29%) [PDF]

  • Md Mahbub Alam, Suprio Ray, Virendra C. Bhavsar, "A Performance Study of Big Spatial Data Systems", The 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data (BigSpatial 2018), Seattle, WA, USA, 2018 [PDF]

  • Maria Patrou, Md Mahbub Alam, Puya Memarzia, Suprio Ray, Virendra C. Bhavsar, Kenneth B. Kent, and Gerhard W. Dueck, "DISTIL: A Distributed In-Memory Data Processing System for Location-Based Services", The 26th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Seattle, WA, USA, 2018 [PDF]