Rate My Professor Egemen Tanin

Tanin's research focuses on spatial data management, spatial databases, and mobile data management, particularly in traffic management technologies, connected and autonomous vehicles, intelligent traffic systems, and graph algorithms for ride-sharing, crowd-sourced goods delivery, and road intersection management. He has published over 200 papers in leading venues including the VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, VLDB, ICDE, and ACM SIGSPATIAL. Key publications include "Flexible Paths: A Path Planning Approach to Dynamic Navigation" (IEEE ITS, 2024), "Bus Bunching: A Comprehensive Review from Demand, Supply, and Decision-making Perspectives" (Transport Reviews, 2024), "Transferable Supervised Learning Model for Public Transport Service Load Estimation" (Transportation, 2023), "Real-Time Road Network Optimization with Coordinated Reinforcement Learning" (ACM TIST, 2023), "A Graph and Attentive Multi-path Convolutional Network for Traffic Prediction" (IEEE TKDE, 2022), and "SMARTS: Scalable Microscopic Adaptive Road Traffic Simulator" (ACM TIST, 2017). He has secured more than $4 million in grants, including numerous Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage Grants. Tanin has supervised over 20 postgraduate students to completion and currently co-supervises 10 PhD students. His professional service includes serving as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, Program Co-Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL (2011 and 2012), Treasurer until 2017, Secretary (2017–2020), and Vice-Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL, as well as co-founder of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australia and founding editor for ACM SIGSPATIAL Special. Awards include the Excellence in Research Award from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne (2006).