Publications

Conference and Journal Cheat Sheet
Type Abbreviation Full name Tier
Journal VLDBJ International Journal on Very Large Data Bases Database 1
Journal Geoinformatica Geoinformatica GIS 1
Journal DAPD Distributed and Parallel Databases Database 2
Conference ACM SIGMOD ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
 Database 1
Conference PVLDB or VLDB International Conference on Very Large Data Bases Database 1
Conference IEEE ICDE IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering Database 1
Conference ACM SIGSPATIAL ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
 GIS 1
Conference SSTD International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases GIS 1
Conference SSDBM International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Database 2
Conference IEEE MDM IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management
 GIS 2
Liang Geng, Rubao Lee, Dewey Dunnington, Feng Zhang, Jia Yu, Xiaodong Zhang (2026). RayBooster: A Ray Tracing Engine to Accelerate SedonaDB. In VLDB.

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Ruichen Wang, Yiqun Xie, Leo Du, Jia Yu, Kyle Duncan, Sinéad Farrell, Zhili Li, Kangyang Chai (2025). Coincident Data Discovery Engine: A Portal for Global-Scale Cross-Platform Satellite Data Search. In ACM SIGSPATIAL.

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Congying Wang, Jia Yu, Zhuoyue Zhao (2023). GLIN: A (G) eneric (L) earned (In) dexing Mechanism for Complex Geometries. In ACM SIGSPATIAL BigSpatial Workshop.

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Yiqun Xie, Xiaowei Jia, Han Bao, Xun Zhou, Jia Yu, Rahul Ghosh, Praveen Ravirathinam (2021). Spatial-Net: A Self-Adaptive and Model-Agnostic Deep Learning Framework for Spatially Heterogeneous Datasets. In ACM SIGSPATIAL.

Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2021). GeoSparkViz: A Cluster Computing System for Visualizing Massive-Scale Geospatial Data. In VLDB Journal.

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Jia Yu, Kanchan Chowdhury, Mohamed Sarwat (2020). Tabula in Action: A Sampling Middleware for Interactive Geospatial Visualization Dashboards. In VLDB.

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Jia Yu, Zishan Fu, Mohamed Sarwat (2020). Dissecting GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator in Apache Spark. In Distributed and Parallel Databases, DAPD.

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Jialin Ding, Umar Farooq Minhas, Jia Yu, Chi Wang, Hantian Zhang, Yinan Li, Jaeyoung Do, Donald Kossmann, Johannes Gehrke, David Lomet, Badrish Chandramouli, Tim Kraska (2020). ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Index. In ACM SIGMOD.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2020). Turbocharging Geospatial Visualization Dashboards via a Materialized Sampling Cube Approach. In IEEE ICDE.

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Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang, Mohamed Sarwat (2020). Systems and Methods for an End-To-End Visual Analytics System for Massive-Scale Geospatial Data. In US Non-provisional Patent 16355261.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2020). Big Geospatial Data Processing Made Easy: A Working Guide to GeoSpark. In Handbook of Big Geospatial Data.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Spatial Data Wrangling with GeoSpark - A Step by Step Tutorial. In ACM SIGSPATIAL.

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Zishan Fu, Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Demonstrating GeoSparkSim: A Scalable Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulator Based on Apache Spark. In SSTD.

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Yingjun Wu, Jia Yu, Yuanyuan Tian, Ronald Barber, Richard Sidle (2019). HERMIT in action: Succinct secondary indexing mechanism via correlation exploration. In VLDB.

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Yingjun Wu, Jia Yu, Yuanyuan Tian, Ronald Barber, Richard Sidle (2019). Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations. In ACM SIGMOD.

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Zishan Fu, Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Building Microscopic Road Network Traffic Simulators in Apache Spark. In IEEE MDM.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Geospatial Data Management in Apache Spark: A Tutorial. In IEEE ICDE.

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Jia Yu, Anique Tahir, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). GeoSparkViz in Action: A Data System with built-in support for Geospatial Visualization. In IEEE ICDE.

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Yuhan Sun, Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Demonstrating Spindra: A Geographic Knowledge Graph Management System. In IEEE ICDE.

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Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang, Mohamed Sarwat (2019). Spatial Data Management in Apache Spark: the GeoSpark Perspective and Beyond. In Geoinformatica.

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Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang, Mohamed Sarwat (2018). GeoSparkViz: a scalable geospatial data visualization framework in the Apache Spark ecosystem. In SSDBM.

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Jia Yu (2017). SRC: Geospatial Visual Analytics Belongs to Database Systems: the BABYLON approach. In ACM SIGSPATIAL.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2017). Indexing the Pickup and Drop-Off Locations of NYC Taxi Trips in PostgreSQL - Lessons from the Road. In SSTD.

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Jia Yu, Raha Moraffah, Mohamed Sarwat (2017). Hippo in Action: Scalable Indexing of a Billion New York City Taxi Trips and Beyond. In IEEE ICDE.

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Jia Yu, Mohamed Sarwat (2016). Two Birds, One Stone: A Fast, yet Lightweight, Indexing Scheme for Modern Database Systems. In VLDB.

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Jia Yu, Jinxuan Wu, Mohamed Sarwat (2016). A demonstration of GeoSpark: A cluster computing framework for processing big spatial data. In Proceedings of the Internation. In IEEE ICDE.

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Jia Yu, Jinxuan Wu, Mohamed Sarwat (2015). GeoSpark: A Cluster Computing Framework for Processing Large-Scale Spatial Data. In ACM SIGSPATIAL.

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