Leon O. Stenneth

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PhD candidate and Fulbright Fellow
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois, Chicago

I defended my PhD thesis on October 4th 2013. The title is "Human activity detection using smartphones and maps" [slides .pptx] [thesis document .pdf]

Paper co-authored with Professor Philip Yu accepted to SIAM SDM 2013...
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Biographical sketch:

I defended my PhD sucesfully on October 4th 2013. I was a PhD candidate and a Fulbright Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). I worked under the supervision of Professor Ouri Wolfson and Professor Philip Yu . Previously, I was also a research associate of the BITS Lab headed by Professor Jakob Erikkson at the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.

My PhD research was in two folds: (1) Context detection from mobile phone sensors which detects human activities from smartphones (2) Privacy-aware location based services. For my study at University of Illinois Chicago, I was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship by the United States Department of State. Before joinging UIC I was a student at the University of Westminster in London (Harrow Campus), here I studied for an MSc. For my study at the University of Westminster London I was awarded the European Union Fellowship. I spent most of my early days in Jamaica where I did the BSc at the University of Technology (Kingston campus).

Currently, I am a full-time research scientist in the Connected Driving Division of Nokia (Chicago). My research roles are centered around (1) Traffic and Dynamic content, (2) Automtive experiences, software, & map updates, (3) Telematics sensor analytics, and (4) Autonomous driving and automotive cloud.

Previously at Nokia (Chicago) I worked on the real time transit project where we automated ways using supervised and unsupervised machine learning schemes to derive transit systems (routes, stops, schedules) from GPS traces obtained from traveler's mobile phones or automatic vehicle locators. Other components of real time transit that we are currently involved in are bus bunching, transit arrival time prediction, real time routing, and spatial and temporal deviation detection and prediction.Several patents and papers have been published based on this project.

Awards

(-) 2013 Nokia Inventor Oscars - Award for most Enthusiastic Inventor
(-) 2013 IEEE MDM (Mobile Data Management) NSF doctoral travel award
(-) 2013 SIAM SDM (Statistical Data Mining) doctoral travel award
(-) 2012 SIAM SDM (Statistical Data Mining) doctoral travel scholarship
(-) Chevron International Student Scholarship 2011
(-) Richard Tapia Diversity Fellowship 2011
(-) Univerity of Illinois Student Presenters award 2010
(-) Fulbright Fellowship 2008
(-) European Union Fellowship 2004
(-) University of Technology honor roll award 2000-2003
(-) University of Technology Foundation Scholarship 1999-2003
(-) BCR Bookstore scholarship, University of Technology 2002

Selected Publications

Selected Journal Entries

Mitigating location privacy breaches on mobile phones by homogenizing motion sensors.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2013 (under review)
Leon Stenneth

Activity recognition from smartphone sensor traces and geospatial knowledge.
Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases 2013 (under review)
Leon Stenneth, Ouri Wolfson, Philip Yu, Bo Xu

Mobile Systems Privacy. "MobiPriv" A Robust K-Anonymous System For snapsot and continious querying location based systems.
Transactions on Data Privacy 2011
Leon Stenneth, Philip S. Yu, Ouri Wolfson


Selected Conferences

Spatio-temporal matching under data uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2014 (ICDE 2014) [under review]
Daneil Ayala, Ouri Wolfson, Leon Stenneth , Bashkar Dasgupta, Jane Lin

BATE: Bus arrival time estimation.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2014 (ICDE 2014) [under review]
Leon Stenneth , Philip S. Yu

Real-time street parking availability estimation. [pdf], [ppt]
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE MDM 2013
JAVA implemenation of the proposed algorithms are available here..., additionally the data set is available here in dropbox...
Bo Xu, Ouri Wolfson, Jie Yang, Leon Stenneth , Philip S. Yu, Peter C. Nelson

Monitoring and mining GPS traces in transit space. [pdf]
Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on data mining (SDM) 2013
data set available here in dropbox
Leon Stenneth, Philip Yu

An Empirical Study of Data Race Detector Tools.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Chinese International Conference on Control and Decision 2013
Jalal Alowibdi, Leon Stenneth

Automated transportation transfer detection using GPS enabled smartphones. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) 2012
Leon Stenneth, Kenville Thompson, Jalal Alowibdi, Waldin Stone

Detecting human activities from smartphones and maps (Poster).
SIAM SDM 2012
Leon Stenneth

PhonePark:Street parking using mobile phones. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2012
Leon Stenneth, Ouri Wolfson, Philip S. Yu, Bo Xu

Transportation mode detection from mobile phones and GIS information. [pdf] , [ppt]
Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011
Leon Stenneth, Ouri Wolfson, Philip S. Yu, Bo Xu. For the data set, please send me an email at lstenneth@gmail.com, lstenn2@uic.edu

Privacy-Aware Mobile locations based systems. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 13th ACM UbiComp 2011 (MLBS)
Leon Stenneth, Philip S. Yu

Reducing Travel Time by Incident Reporting via CrowdSourcing. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP) 2011
Leon Stenneth, Waldin Stone, Jalal Alowibdi

Mobile Systems Location Privacy: "MobiPriv" A Robust K Anonymous System. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2010
Leon Stenneth, Philip Yu, Ouri Wolfson.

Global privacy and transportation mode homogeneity anonymization in location based mobile systems with continuous queries. [pdf]
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Intemational Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom), 2010
Leon Stenneth, Philip Yu.

An Application of Intelligent Adaptive Agents Over Wireless Networks.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communications Technology Research, 2009
Leon Stenneth, Waldin Stone

A Peer Based Model for 2D Multiplayer Gaming.
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 05)
Leon Stenneth, Richard Pyne


Selected Workshops

Supporting Privacy and Auditing in Cloud Computing Systems, 2013.
Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Security Auditing 2013
Tyrone Grandison, Sean Thorpe, Leon Stenneth

Patents published or pending

Automated street parking payment of a autonomous/driverless car
Inventor: Leon Stenneth and Gavril Giurgiu

Software system and methods for transforming probe data across transportation modes. US serial # 14/039393
Inventor: Leon Stenneth

Turn restriction determination.US serial# 14/015185
Inventor: Leon Stenneth

System and methods for matching transit vehicles to trips in a real time transit tracking environment.US serial # 14/012329
Inventors: Leon Stenneth

System and method for advanced selection of a resource among available resources.
Inventors: Ouri Wolfson, Leon Stenneth ,Philip Yu, and Bo Xu

Systems and methods for location proof beyond location positioning US serial# 13/951740
Inventor: Leon Stenneth

Systems and methods for automated street parking payment detection using mobile device and a map US serial# 13/915230
Inventor: Leon Stenneth

Vehicle arrival prediction US serial# 13/849012
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Structure access characteristics determined from mobile unit data. US serial# 13/784120
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Systems and methods for activity classification, 2012 - [US serial# 61/720,815] highlight
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Ouri Wolfson, Philip Yu, and Bo Xu

Methods and apparatus for transit mapping, 2012 - US serial# 13/780901
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Methods and apparatus for deriving spatial properties of bus stops and traffic controls, 2012 - US Serial # 13/872439
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Real-time vehicle spacing control, 2012 - US serial# 13/739709
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Deviation detection in mobile transit systems, 2012 - US serial# 13/739560
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Methods and apparatus for transit mapping, 2012 - US serial# 13/781188
Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Leo Modica

Reviewer for

Scientific Journals
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Intelligent Transportation and Urban Planning
Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Conferences
IEEE MDM 2013
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2013
ACM RACS 2013
Applied Computing 2013
ACM UBICOMP 2013
IEEE MDM 2012
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2012
ACM RACS 2012
Applied Computing 2012
VLDB 2012
ACM UBICOMP 2012
SMART 2012
30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2011)
CIKM 2011
IEEE MDM 2009, 2010, 2011
ACM GIS 2009, 2010, 2011
COLLOBORATE COM 2010, 2011
12th Symposium on spaital and temporal databases 2011
Wireless Applications and Computing (WAC) 2011
9th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference - Emerging Consumer Technologies
Applied Computing 2011
10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks 2009
2 Chapters in the Handbook of Peer-to-Peer Networking

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Contact

851 S. Morgan St., Rm 120 SEO, Chicago, IL 60607
e-mail: lstennet@cs.uic.edu, lstenn2@uic.edu, lstenneth@gmail.com (preferred)

mobile: (312) 772 - 8380, 312-772-8429
SKYPE: lstenneth