Publications

  1. Ghasemi, M., Fu, Y., Ouyang, X., Wang, P., Turkcan, M., Tavori, J., Kleisarchaki, S., Calmant, T., Gürgen, L., Kostic, Z., Di, X., Zussman, G., Ghaderi, J., 2025 “Real-time video analytics for urban safety: deployment over edge and end devices,” in Proc. ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC).
  2. Zang, C., Turkcan, M. K., Zussman, G., Kostic, Z., & Ghaderi, J. (2025, July). Adaptive data collection for robust learning across multiple distributions. In Proceedings of the Forty-Second International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). OpenReview link
  3. Li, Y., Gumaste, D., Turkcan, M. K., Ghaderi, J., Zussman, G., & Kostic, Z. (2025, March). Distributed VLMs: Efficient vision-language processing through cloud-edge collaboration. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (pp. 280–286). IEEE.
  4. Pargoo, N. S., Ghasemi, M., Xia, S., Turkcan, M. K., Ehsan, T., Zang, C., Sun, Y., Ghaderi, J., Zussman, G., Kostic, Z., & Ortiz, J. (2025, May). Urban sensing for human-centered systems: A modular edge framework for real-time interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Human-Centered Sensing, Modeling, and Intelligent Systems (pp. 92–97). ACM.
  5. Gao, Q., & Di, X. (2025). Learning traffic states and fundamental diagram via physics-informed neural operator. In 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE.
  6. Fu, Y., Fang, B., Liu, M., & Di, X. (2025). MetaLLMetro: LLM-centric virtual reality navigation platform for metro stations. In 2025 IEEE 28th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE.
  7. Huang, K., & Du, Q. (2024). Asymptotic compatibility of a class of numerical schemes for a nonlocal traffic flow model. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 62(2), 1067–1097.
  8. Zang, C., Turkcan, M. K., Zussman, G., Ghaderi, J., & Kostic, Z. (2024, June). Data-driven traffic simulation for an intersection in a metropolis. In Proceedings of the CVPR 2024 Workshop on Physics of Everyday Traffic Scenes (POETS). [download]
  9. Gao, Q., & Di, X. (2024, September). Comparative studies of neural operators for traffic state estimation. In 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1992-1997). IEEE. [download]
  10. Li, Y., Mo, Z., & Di, X. (2024, September). SafeAug: Safety-Critical Driving Data Augmentation from Naturalistic Datasets. In 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 3251-3256). IEEE. [download]
  11. Fu, Y., Jain, A., Chen, X., Mo, Z., & Di, X. (2024, October). Drivegenvlm: Real-world video generation for vision language model based autonomous driving. In 2024 IEEE International Automated Vehicle Validation Conference (IAVVC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. [download]
  12. Fu, Y., Li, Y., & Di, X. (2024). Gendds: Generating diverse driving video scenarios with prompt-to-video generative model. In 2024 IEEE 27th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). [download]
  13. Fu, Y., Turkcan, M. K., Anantha, V., Kostic, Z., Zussman, G., & Di, X. (2024). Digital twin for pedestrian safety warning at a single urban traffic intersection. In 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV) 2024. [website]
  14. Ghasemi, M., Kostic, Z., Ghaderi, J., & Zussman, G. (2024, December). EdgeCloudAI: Edge-Cloud Distributed Video Analytics. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (pp. 1778-1780). [download]
  15. Zang, C., Turkcan, M. K., Zussman, G., Ghaderi, J., & Kostić, Z. (2024). Evaluating trajectory forecasting models for a New York City street intersection. In Data Science Day 2024, Columbia University.
  16. Ho, W., Turkcan, M. K., Ghaderi, J., Zussman, G., & Kostic, Z. (2024). Evaluating zero-shot image tagging for urban traffic intersection scenes. In Visual Anomaly and Novelty Detection Workshop, CVPR 2024.
  17. Zang, C., Turkcan, M. K., Zussman, G., Ghaderi, J., & Kostic, Z. (2024). Data-driven traffic simulation for an intersection in a metropolis. In Workshop on Populating Empty Cities: Virtual Humans for Robotics and Autonomous Driving, CVPR 2024.
  18. Turkcan, M. K., Narasimhan, S., Zang, C., Je, G. H., Yu, B., Ghasemi, M., ... & Kostic, Z. (2024). Constellation Dataset: Benchmarking High-Altitude Object Detection for an Urban Intersection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.16944.
  19. Y. Fu and X. Di, "Federated Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control: A Case Study in New York City," in 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, 2023, pp. 5738-5743. [download]
  20. Jain, G., Hindi, B., Zhang, Z., Srinivasula, K., Xie, M., Ghasemi, M., Weiner, D., Paris, S.A., Xu, X.Y., Malcolm, M., Turkcan, M.K., Ghaderi, J., Kostić, Z., Zussman, G., & Smith, B.A. (2023). StreetNav: Leveraging Street Cameras to Support Precise Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians. ArXiv, abs/2310.00491.
  21. Jain, G., Hindi, B., Xie, M., Zhang, Z., Srinivasula, K., Ghasemi, M., ... & Smith, B. A. (2023, October). Towards Street Camera-based Outdoor Navigation for Blind Pedestrians. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 1-6).
  22. Di, X.; Shi, R.; Mo, Z.; Fu, Y. "Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Traffic State Estimation: A Survey and the Outlook," in Algorithms 2023, 16, 305. [download]
  23. Xu Chen, Shuo Liu, and Xuan Di. "A Hybrid Framework of Reinforcement Learning and Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Mean Field Games," in Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS '23). [download]
  24. Bautista-Montesano, R.; Galluzzi, R.; Mo, Z.; Fu, Y.; Bustamante-Bello, R.; Di, X. "Longitudinal Control Strategy for Connected Electric Vehicle with Regenerative Braking in Eco-Approach and Departure." in  Applied Scences 2023, 13, 5089. [download]
  25. Ghasemi, M., Kleisarchaki, S., Calmant, T., Lu, J., Ojha, S., Kostic, Z., ... & Ghaderi, J. (2023, March). Real-time Multi-Camera Analytics for Traffic Information Extraction and Visualization. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops) (pp. 288-290). IEEE.
  26. Ghasemi, M., Yang, Z., Sun, M., Ye, H., Xiong, Z., Ghaderi, J., ... & Zussman, G. (2023). Video-Based Social Distancing: Evaluation in the COSMOS Testbed. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  27. Ghasemi, M., Kostic, Z., Ghaderi, J., & Zussman, G. (2021, October). Auto-SDA: Automated video-based social distancing analyzer. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on hot topics in video analytics and intelligent edges (pp. 7-12).
  28. Duan, Zhuoxu and Yang, Zhengye and Samoilenko, Richard and Oza, Dwiref Snehal and Jagadeesan, Ashvin and Sun, Mingfei and Ye, Hongzhe and Xiong, Zihao and Zussman, Gil and Kostic, Zoran "Smart City Traffic Intersection: Impact of Video Quality and Scene Complexity on Precision and Inference" in Proc. 19th IEEE Int. Conf. on Smart City, 2021.
  29. Z. Kostic, A. Angus, Z. Yang, Z. Duan, I. Seskar, G. Zussman, and D. Raychaudhuri, “Smart city intersections: Intelligence nodes for future metropolises,” in IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Smart and Circular Cities , 2022.
  30. S. Liu, Y. Wang, X. Chen, Y. Fu and X. Di, "SMART-eFlo: An Integrated SUMO-Gym Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Electric Fleet Management Problem,"  in 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Macau, China, 2022, pp. 3026-3031. [download]
  31. Z. Mo, Y. Fu and X. Di, "Quantifying Uncertainty In Traffic State Estimation Using Generative Adversarial Networks," in 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Macau, China, 2022, pp. 2769-2774. [download]
  32. Yang, Z., Sun, M., Ye, H., Xiong, Z., Zussman, G., & Kostic, Z. (2022, May). "Bird's-eye view social distancing analysis system". In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2022.
  33. Ghasemi, Mahshid and Kleisarchaki, Sofia and Calmant, Thomas and Gürgen, Levent and Ghaderi, Javad and Kostic, Zoran and Zussman, Gil "Real-time camera analytics for enhancing traffic intersection safety" in Proc. ACM MobiSys’22, 2022.
  34. Mo, Zhaobin, Yongjie Fu, Daran Xu, and Xuan Di. "TrafficFlowGAN: Physics-informed Flow based Generative Adversarial Network for Uncertainty Quantification" in European Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (ECML PKDD) , 2022. [download]
  35. Bautista-Montesano, Rolando, Renato Galluzzi, Kangrui Ruan, Yongjie Fu, and Xuan Di. "Autonomous navigation at unsignalized intersections: A coupled reinforcement learning and model predictive control approach." in Transportation research part C: emerging technologies 139 (2022): 103662.
  36. Mo, Zhaobin, Wangzhi Li, Yongjie Fu, Kangrui Ruan, and Xuan Di. "CVLight: Decentralized learning for adaptive traffic signal control with connected vehicles." in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022. [download]
  37. Mo, Zhaobin, and Xuan Di. "Uncertainty quantification of car-following behaviors: Physics-informed generative adversarial networks." in the 28th ACM SIGKDD in conjunction with the 11th International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp2022), 2022. [download]
  38. M. Ghasemi, S. Kleisarchaki, T. Calmant, J. Lu, S. Ojha, Z. Kostic, L. Gürgen, G. Zussman, and J. Ghaderi, “Demo: Real-time Multi-Camera Analytics for Traffic Information Extraction and Visualization,” in Proc. IEEE PerCom’23, 2023.
  39. M. Ghasemi, Z. Yang, M. Sun, H. Ye, Z. Xiong, J. Ghaderi, Z. Kostic, and G. Zussman, “Demo: Video-based Social Distancing Evaluation in the COSMOS Testbed Pilot Site,” In Proc. ACM MobiCom’21, Mar. 2022.
  40. M. Ghasemi, Z. Kostic, J. Ghaderi, and G. Zussman, “ASTRA: Adaptive STreaming System for Real-Time Video Analysis,” Under review in USENIX NSDI’25.
  41. M. Ghasemi, M. Turkcan, S. Kleisarchaki, T. Calmant, Jiawei Lu, Shivam Ojha, Z. Kostic, L. Gurgen, J. Ghaderi, and G. Zussman, “Real-time Camera Integration for Traffic Information Extraction and Visualization,” In preparation to be submitted to an upcoming conference.
  42. M. Ghasemi, “Auto-SDA: Automated Video-based Social Distancing Analyzer,” ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Vol 49, No. 2, Sept. 2021 (finalist for SIGMETRICS’21 SRC).

 

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Columbia University Data Science Institute
Columbia Engineering
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
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