Mohamed Mokbel

AWARDS & HONORS

Named a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, 2023. (University Announcement) (College Announcement) (Department Announcement)

Slected among Best Papers: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, IEEE MDM 2018, SSTD 2017, IEEE ICDE 2014, IEEE ICDE 2012, ACM GIS 2002.

Best Workshop Paper Award: ACM MobiGIS 2012 (co-located with ACM SIGSPATIAL)

Best Paper Award

IEEE MDM 2015: Mohamed Sarwat, James L. Avery, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. " Recathon: A Middleware for Context-Aware Recommendation in Database Systems". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2015.

SSTD 2011: Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, Suman Nath. "FAST: A Generic Framework for Flash-Aware Spatial Trees.". In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2011, Minneapolis, MN, August 2011.
IEEE MDM 2009: Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Tian He. "Aggregate Location Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Histogram-based Approach". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2009, Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009
IEEE MASS 2008: Shuo Guo, Tian He, Mohamed F. Mokbel, John A. Stankovic, and Tarek Abdelzaher. "On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hocand Sensor Systems, MASS 2008, Atlanta, GA, Sep. 2008.

Selected Among Best Conference Papers

ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018: Ibrahim Sabek, Mashaal Musleh, Mohamed Mokbel "TurboReg: A Framework for Scaling up Spatial Logistic Regression Models". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, Seattle, WA, November 2018.
IEEE MDM 2018: Constantinos Costa, Andreas Charalampous, Andreas Konstantinidis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Mohamed F. Mokbel " Decaying Telco Big Data with Data Postdiction". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, IEEE MDM 2018, Aalborg, Denmark, June, 2018.
SSTD 2017: Louai Alarabi, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Mashaal Musleh "ST-Hadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatio-temporal Data". In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2017, Washington, D.C, Aug., 2017.
IEEE ICDE 2014: Amr Magdy, Mohamed Mokbel, Sameh Elnikety, Suman Nath, and Yuxiong He. " Mercury: A Memory-Constrained Spatio-temporal Real-time Search on Microblogs". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2014, Chicago, IL, April, 2014.

IEEE ICDE 2012: Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. " LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012 (full presentation, acceptance rate 20.5%).
ACM GIS 2002: Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref, and Ibrahim Kamel. "Performance of Multi-Dimensional Space-Filling Curves". In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Sys., ACM GIS 2002, McLean, VA, pp. 149-154, Nov., 2002. (acceptance rate 34.5%).

Best System Demo Award

ACM SIGMOD 2023: Mashaal Musleh and Mohamed F. Mokbel " A Demonstration of KAMEL: A Scalable BERT-based System for Trajectory Imputation". In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2023, Seattle, WA, June, 2023.
IEEE MDM 2015: Abdeltawab M. Hendawi, Mohamed Ali, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. " A Framework for Spatial Predictive Query Processing and Visualization". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2015.

Best Workshop Paper Award

ACM MobiGIS 2012: Abdeltawab Hendawi and Mohamed F. Mokbel "Predictive Spatio-Temporal Queries: A Comprehensive Survey and Future Directions". In Proceeding of the first ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems, MobiGIS 2012, co-located with SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012 , Redondo Beach, CA, November 2012.

Runner-Up for Best Poster Award for a Conference Paper

IEEE ICDE 2015: Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Saif Alharthi, Abdulhadi Alzaidy, Kareem Tarek, and Sohaib Ghani. " SHAHED: A MapReduce-based System for Querying and Visualizing Spatio-temporal Satellite Data". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2015, Seoul, South Korea, April, 2015.

Runner-Up for Best Vision Paper

SSTD 2017: Christopher Jonathan and Mohamed Mokbel " Towards a Unified Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform (Vision Paper)". In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2017, Washington, D.C, Aug., 2017.
ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015: Reem Y. Ali, Venkata M.V. Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar, Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Andrew J. Kotz and William F. Northrop. "Future Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities for Spatio-temporal Computing (Vision paper)". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, SIGSPATIAL GIS 2015, Seattle, WA, November 2015.