
Xiaochuan Gou
Biography
Xiaochuan Gou is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Prof. Di Wang and Prof. Xiangliang Zhang. His research focuses on spatio-temporal data mining, with an emphasis on explainability and efficiency in deep learning models for traffic forecasting and urban computing. He is the lead author of TraffiDent, an open-source multimodal traffic dataset that integrates incident information and supports explainable modeling, and has published multiple papers in top-tier international conferences such as CIKM, WSDM, Big Data, and SIGSPATIAL.
Research Interests
Xiaochuan's research interests include machine learning, data mining, and GIS. He aspires to build new machine learning models to resolve existing problems in public traffic planning, urban planning and social network related to the modern life.