Research Output

Publications

Earlier and ongoing research on agents, context-aware forecasting, probabilistic ML, and transportation systems.

ICML 2026

Overcoming the Modality Gap in Context-Aided Forecasting

Introduces CAF-7M and DoubleCast for context-aided probabilistic forecasting with textual information.

context-aided forecastingmodality gapCAF-7M
Preprint 2026

Dr-CiK: A Testbed for Foresight-Driven Agents

Builds a testbed for evaluating foresight-driven agents with context and forecasting-oriented tasks.

foresight-driven agentsdeep researchcontext-aided forecasting
PhD thesis, McGill University 2026

Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Correlated Errors

Dissertation on probabilistic forecasting methods that model temporal, multivariate, and spatiotemporal error correlation.

probabilistic time series forecastingcorrelated errorsGLS
Preprint 2025

Beyond Naive Prompting: Strategies for Improved Zero-shot Context-aided Forecasting with LLMs

Studies prompting, correction, in-context examples, and routing strategies for LLM-based context-aided forecasting.

context-aided forecastingLLMszero-shot forecasting
Preprint 2025

Frequency-Constrained Learning for Long-Term Forecasting

Adds spectral priors through frequency initialization and constrained optimization for long-horizon forecasting.

frequency-constrained learninglong-term forecastingspectral priors
Transportation Science 2025

Scalable Dynamic Mixture Model with Full Covariance for Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting

Models time-varying matrix-variate error distributions with dynamic Gaussian mixtures for probabilistic traffic forecasting.

probabilistic traffic forecastingdynamic mixture modelfull covariance
Transportation Science 2025

Probabilistic Traffic Forecasting with Dynamic Regression

Extends error-correlation modeling to spatiotemporal forecasting with a matrix-variate autoregressive process and non-isotropic training loss.

probabilistic traffic forecastingdynamic regressionerror correlation
AI4TS Workshop, IJCAI 2025

Dynamic Modes as Time Representation for Spatiotemporal Forecasting

Uses dynamic mode decomposition to build data-driven time embeddings for long-range seasonal dependencies.

dynamic mode decompositiontime embeddingsspatiotemporal forecasting
NeurIPS 2024

Multivariate Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Correlated Errors

Introduces an efficient parameterization of cross-covariance matrices for multivariate probabilistic forecasting.

error autocorrelationcross-lag correlationuncertainty quantification
Preprint 2024

MVG-CRPS: A Robust Loss Function for Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasting

Proposes a robust CRPS-style loss for multivariate Gaussian probabilistic forecasting.

MVG-CRPSstrictly proper scoring rulemultivariate Gaussian
Multimodal Transportation 2024

Understanding the Predictability of Path Flow Distribution in Urban Road Networks Using an Information Entropy Approach

Uses information entropy to analyze predictability limits for urban path flow distributions.

path flow distributioninformation entropyurban road networks
AISTATS 2024

Better Batch for Deep Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting

Uses generalized least squares in the temporal domain to account for autocorrelated errors in deep probabilistic forecasting.

error autocorrelationtime-varying covarianceuncertainty quantification
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2021

Traffic Speed Estimation Based on Multi-Source GPS Data and Mixture Model

Estimates urban traffic speed by combining multi-source GPS data with mixture modeling.

traffic speed estimationmulti-source GPS datainfinite Gaussian mixture model
Journal of Advanced Transportation 2021

A Data-Driven Urban Metro Management Approach for Crowd Density Control

Develops a data-driven metro management method for crowd density control during large crowding events.

crowd density controlmetro smartcard datacrowd management
IET Intelligent Transport Systems 2020

Hybrid Model for Predicting Anomalous Large Passenger Flow in Urban Metros

Combines machine learning and complex network modeling for anomalous metro passenger-flow prediction.

anomalous large passenger flowcomplex networkonline learning
Journal of Central South University 2020

Traffic Congestion Spreading Analysis Based on Causal Nexus

Analyzes traffic congestion spreading through causal relationships in transportation networks.

traffic congestion spreadingcausal nexusroad networks
ATCI 2019

Statistical Analysis of Traffic-Related Social Media Data of Multiple Cities in China

Analyzes traffic-related social media data across multiple Chinese cities.

traffic-related social media datastatistical analysisChinese cities
EPJ Data Science 2018

Understanding Coupling Dynamics of Public Transportation Networks

Studies multiplex public transportation networks and trip reconstruction from smart card data.

multiplex networkscouplingspatial networksdata analysis
PLOS ONE 2018

Framework for Fusing Traffic Information from Social and Physical Transportation Data

Fuses social media and physical transportation data to improve traffic sensing and analysis.

social transportation dataphysical transportation datatraffic information fusion
Journal of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 2018

Traffic Anomaly Detection Method Based on Travel Time of Path

Detects traffic anomalies using path travel-time information.

DBSCAN clustering algorithmGPSmap matchingtraffic anomaly detectionpath travel time
Acta Automatica Sinica 2018

A Traffic Sensing and Analyzing System Using Social Media Data

Builds a traffic sensing and analysis system using traffic-related information from social media.

social media datatraffic sensingSVMCRFevent extraction