This website presents our research efforts on modeling human life trajectories—how people move 🚶, evolve 🌱, and interact 🧑🤝🧑 across time and space—through large-scale data.
Across a trilogy of papers, we explore how life paths can be extracted, compared, and connected at unprecedented scale.
Understanding such trajectories not only reveals behavioral and mobility patterns, but also deepens our grasp of the social fabric that connects lives. Enjoy!
— The Authors
@inproceedings{peng2024did,
title={Where Did the President Visit Last Week? Detecting Celebrity Trips from News Articles},
author={Peng, Kai and Zhang, Ying and Ling, Shuai and Ke, Zhaoru and Zhang, Haipeng},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
volume={18},
pages={1193--1206},
year={2024}
}
@inproceedings{zhang2025paths,
title={Paths of A Million People: Extracting Life Trajectories from Wikipedia},
author={Zhang, Ying and Li, Xiaofeng and Liu, Zhaoyang and Zhang, Haipeng},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
volume={19},
pages={2226--2240},
year={2025}
}