IMSC Faculty Projects

Year 2012 - 2013

  • BigData Pricing Schemes
    • Team: Prof. Hamid Nazerzadeh (Industrial Engineering)
    • Description: Design and development of revenue-maximizing pricing schemes for Big-data marketplaces, with focus on Transportation sensor data.
  • Archived Traffic Data Management System
    • Team: Prof. Genevieve Giuliano (USC Sol Price School of Public Policy)
    • Description: Implement Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) techniques to analyze archived traffic sensor data towards transportation decision making and planning.
  • Study of Congested Corridors in Los Angeles
    • Team: Prof. James Elliott Moore, II (Industrial Engineering)
    • Description: Study the most congested corridors of Los Angeles County using historical traffic sensor data, and make before and after analysis of Carmegedons.
  • Analysis of Mobility Data Using Spatiotemporal Graph-based Techniques
    • Team: Prof. Antonio Ortega (Electrical Engineering)
    • Description:
  • Mining Events from Multi-Source Multi-Modal Data
    • Team: Prof. Yan Liu (Computer Science)
    • Description:
  • Constructing a Dynamic Ontology for Streaming Big Data in a Specific Domain
    • Team: Prof. Dennis McLeod (Computer Science)
    • Description: Build ontologies for dynamically changing data, particularly big data streams. One essential characteristic of such big data streams is the unpredictability of their semantic relationships, which requires an ontology that can automatically evolve. By analyzing data streams, the proposed research expects to capture the varying semantics in time so that the dynamic semantics can be used to update the ontology.

Year 2011 - 2012

  • Urban Goods Movement
    • Team: Prof. James Elliott Moore, II (Industrial Engineering)
    • Description: Develop efficient methods to optimize delivery of goods in urban areas and evaluate impacts across the supply chain.
  • Traffic Sensor Data Analysis and Corridor Monitoring
    • Team: Prof. Genevieve Giuliano and Prof. Lisa Schweitzer (USC Sol Price School of Public Policy)
    • Description: Analyze real-time and historical traffic sensor data to develop new policies towards enhancing the efficacy of the transportation systems.
  • Realtime Traffic Video Analysis
    • Team: Prof. Jonathan Taplin (Annenberg Innovation Lab) and Intel Corp.
    • Description: Develop vision-based algorithms to extract traffic flow data from traffic monitoring video streams using Intel's coprocessor.
  • Energy Literacy Platform for USC Campus
    • Team: Dr. Burcin Becerik Gerber (Civil and Environmental Eng.)
    • Description: Develop a BMS-occupant commuication module which provides building ambient factor feedback to participants for reducing energy consumption
  • Contact Network Analysis

  • Geofence

  • Human Mobility-Pattern Analysis

Year 2010 - 2011

  • Targeted Trojan Alerts
    • Team: Dr. Daniel W. Goldberg (Spatial Sciences Institute)
    • Description: Provide customized alert system using user location information
  • Sensing Occupancy and Location
    • Team: Dr. Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Electrical Eng.)
    • Description: Develop an occupancy sensing system for buildings and rooms
  • AmbientFactors for iCampus
    • Team: Dr. Burcin Becerik Gerber (Civil and Environmental Eng.)
    • Description: Record, organize, and visualize the spatiotemporal indoor ambient information voluntarily provided by the USC campus users
    • Rapid Forensic Analysis