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Farhana Murtaza Choudhury

Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North America)

School of Computing and Information Systems

University of Melbourne

Victoria, Australia

farhana.choudhury@unimelb.edu.au

I am a Lecturer (equivalent to Assistant Professor in North America) at The University of Melbourne in the School of Computing and Information Systems since September, 2018. Prior to that, I was a lecture at RMIT University in the School of Science (Computer Science and Information Technology). I have receive my PhD in 2018 from RMIT University under the supervision of Prof. Timos Sellis and Dr. Shane Culpepper.

My current work focuses on Spatial and Spatial-textual Databases, Machine learning and deep learning approaches to solve spatial problems, Data visualization, Social network, and Streaming query processing. See my CV and list of publications for details.


Supervision

I am currently looking for PhD/masters students in my areas of interest: spatial databases, data visualization, applying machine learning approaches on spatial problems, graph data, and streaming data. Contact me via email with your CV, academic results, and a summary of the research area that you are interested in.

Notable Publications

  • Islam, Md Saiful, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Yong-Bin Kang, Timos Sellis, Farhana M. Choudhury, and Shamik Roy. "Keyword aware influential community search in large attributed graphs." Information Systems (2021): 101914.

  • Junghoon Kim, Tao Guo, Kaiyu Feng, Gao Cong, Arijit Khan, and Farhana Choudhury, “Densely Connected User Community and Location Cluster Search in Location-Based Social Networks” in International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pp. 2199 - 2209, 2020. CORE Rank - A*.

  • Mo Li, Farhana Choudhury, R. Borovica-Gajic, Z. Wang, J. Xin and J. Li, “CrashSim: An Efficient Algorithm for Computing SimRank over Static and Temporal Graphs,” in International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 1141-1152, 2020. CORE Rank - A*.

  • Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng, Farhana Choudhury, and Hanan Samet, “Querying Recurrent Convoys over Trajectory Data”, in Transaction on Intelligent Systems Technology, vol. 11(5), 2020.

  • Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Choudhury, and J. Shane Culpepper, “Dynamic Ridesharing in Peak Travel Periods,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), vol. 33(7), pp. 2888-2902, 2020. CORE Rank - A*.

  • D. A. Tedjopurnomo, Z. Bao, B. Zheng, Farhana Choudhury and A. K. Qin, “A Survey on Modern Deep Neural Network for Traffic Prediction: Trends, Methods and Challenges,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020. CORE Rank - A*.

  • Nafis Irtiza Tripto, Mahjabin Nahar, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Farhana Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, and Timos Sellis, “Top-k trajectories with the best view”, GeoInformatica, pp. 1-41, 2019. Impact factor 1.317.

  • Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Choudhury, Hanan Samet, and Baihua Zheng, “Querying Continuous Recurrent Convoys of Interest”, in Proc. of International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), pp. 436-439. 2019. CORE Rank A.

  • Bishwamittra Ghosh, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Sajid Hasan Apon, Timos Sellis, and Jianxin Li, The Flexible Socio Spatial Group Queries, In Proc. of Very Large Data Bases Endowment (PVLDB), 2019 (to appear). CORE Rank - A*.

  • Finding the optimal location and keywords in obstructed and unobstructed space, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, Zhifeng Bao, and Timos Sellis, in Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), vol. 27(4), pp. 445-470, 2018. ERA Rank - A*.

  • Supporting Large-scale Geographical Visualization in a Multi-granularity Way (Demo track), Mingzhao Li, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana M. Choudhury, and Timos Sellis, In Proc. of International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), pp. 767-770, 2018. CORE Rank A*.

  • VizQ: A System for Scalable Processing of Visibility Queries in 3D Spatial Databases (Demo track), Arif Arman, Kaysar Abdullah, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, In Proc of CIKM, pp. 2447-2450, 2017. CORE Rank - A.

  • Monitoring the Top-m Rank Aggregation of Spatial Objects in Streaming Queries, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, and Timos Sellis, In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 585-596, 2017. CORE Rank - A*.

  • Maximizing Bichromatic Reverse Spatial and Textual k Nearest Neighbor Queries, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis, and Xin Cao, In Proc. of the Very Large DataBases (VLDB) Endow. vol. 9(6): 456-467, 2016. CORE Rank - A*. (Access an extended version of the paper here)

  • Scalable Visibility Color Map Construction in Spatial Databases, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Sarah Masud, Suman Nath, and Ishat E. Rabban, In the Journal of Information Systems, vol. 42: 89-106, 2014. CORE Rank - A*.

  • Maximum Visibility Queries in Spatial Databases, Sarah Masud, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Sarana Nutanong, In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp. 637-648, 2013. CORE Rank - A*.

Other Publications

    • Li, Mingzhao, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Choudhury, Hanan Samet, Matt Duckham, and Timos Sellis. "AOI-shapes: An Efficient Footprint Algorithm to Support Visualization of User-defined Urban Areas of Interest." ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 11, no. 3-4 (2021): 1-32.

    • Farhana M. Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, Zhifeng Bao, and Timos Sellis, “Batch processing of Top-k Spatial-textual Queries”, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) journal, vol. 3(4), pp. 1-40, 2018.

    • Hui Luo, Farhana M. Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, and Bang Zhang, “MaxBRkNN Queries for Streaming Geo-Data”, International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Full paper, 2018 (to appear).

    • Mingzhao Li, Farhana M. Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, Hanan Samet, and Timos Sellis, “ConcaveCubes: Supporting Cluster-based Geographical Visualization in Large Data Scale”, EG/VCTG Conference on Visualization (EuroVis), Full paper, 2018 (to appear).

    • Liangjun Song, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana M. Choudhury, and Timos Sellis, “Joint Top-k Subscription Query Processing over Microblog Threads”, in Proc. of Australasian Database Conference (ADC), pp. 381-394, 2016. (Winner of the best student paper award).

    • Ch. Md. Rakin Haider, Arif Arman, Mohammed Eunus Ali, and Farhana M. Choudhury, “Continuous Maximum Visibility Query for a Moving Target”. in Proc. of Australasian Database Conference (ADC), pp. 82-94, 2016. (Winner of the best student poster award).

    • Farhana M. Choudhury, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis, “Batch processing of top-k spatial-textual queries”, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data (GEORICH), in conjunction with the ACM SIGMOD, pp. 7-12, 2015.

    • Joel Mackenzie, Farhana M. Choudhury, and J. Shane Culpepper, “Efficient location-aware web search”, in Proc. of the Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS), pp. 1-8, 2015. (Winner of the best paper award).

    • Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Md. Rashidujjaman Rifat, and Shubrami Moutushy, “Usability Analysis of e-Governance Services in Bangladesh - A Survey and Future Directions”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), pp. 417-422, 2012.

    • Sarah Masud, Monjura Afrin, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, “VizResearch: Linking the Knowledge of People and the People with Knowledge”, in Proc. of the International Workshop on Advances in Computational Social Science, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS), pp. 1416-1425, 2012.