Curated List

A collection of his recent works.

Improving next location prediction with inferred activity semantics in mobile phone data

S. Liang, Q. Li, L. Zhuo, D. Zou, Y. Xu, S. Zhou

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2025

To predict where someone is headed, do we need to know why? This study shows that giving AI the "why" makes its predictions much sharper. We find that using a diverse mix of activities works better than sticking to a few safe, accurate categories, even if the specific guesses are imperfect.