Keynote

Goce Trajcevski is an Associate Professor with the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He received his BS degree in Informatics and Automation from the University of Sts. Kiril i Metodij in Skopje, and his MS and PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His Post-Doctoral studies were completed at Northwestern University. His broader research interest are in the areas of Mobile Data Management and Moving Objects Databases (MOD); Semantically augmented Spatio-Temporal Data Management; Data Management in Sensor Networks; Machine Learning and Reactive Behavior in Dynamic and Distributed Environments. He has over 200 publications in refereed conferences and journals, and has received Best Paper Award at CoopIS 2000; Best Paper Award at IEEE MDM 2010; Best Short Paper Award at ACM MSWiM 2013; Best Demo Awards at SSTD 2017 and IEEE MDM 2019; and Runner-up for Best Paper Award at IEEE MDM 2020. He has served as a General Co-Chair for IEEE ICDE 2014, IEEE INISTA 2020 and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019/2020; as a Program Committee Co-Chair for ADBIS 2014 and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017; Workshops Co-Chair for DASFAA 2017. Between 2017-2020 he was a Vice Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL, and has served as part of the Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee in numerous conferences and workshops. He is an Associate Editor of ACM TSAS and GeoInformatica journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Northrop Grumman Corp., and Moore Foundation.