Christine Bassem, Lecturer in Computer Science, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study “Mobility Coordination of the Crowds in Mobile Crowd Sensing Platforms.” The grant of $154,434 will support Christine’s work with student researchers on the intersection of algorithms, systems, mobile computing, and social computing.

Coordinated mobility depends on two areas: the mechanisms via which tasks/routes are assigned to agents; and the mechanisms via which agents are compensated for conformance, creating a rich set of problems in the fields of optimization problems, graph and data mining, and crowd economics. This project contributes towards the advancement of mobile crowd sensing for solving larger problems, with a great impact on smart cities initiatives, and the advancement of Internet of Things solutions.