Ibrahim Sabek
| PhD. 2020 |
| | Title: Adopting Markov Logic Networks for Big Spatial Data and Applications |
| | First position: Postdoc, MIT |
| | Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (USC) |
| | Awards: UMN Best Dissertation Award: Honorable Mention 2021 |
| | First Place, ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition 2019 |
| | UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2019 |
| | Among Best Pepers ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018 |
| | UMN CS Academic Excellence Fellowship 2016 |
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Louai Alarabi
| PhD. 2019 |
| | Title: ST-Hadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Big Spatio-temporal Data |
| | First position: Assistant Professor, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia |
| | Current position: Chief Data Analytics Engineer, SITE, Saudi Arabia |
| | Awards: First Place, ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition 2018 |
| | Among Best Pepers, SSTD 2017 |
| | Best Overall Poster, UMN Annual U-Spatial Symposium 2014 |
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Christopher Jonathan
| PhD. 2019 |
| | Title: Towards an Extensible Expert-Sourcing Platform |
| | First/Current position: Co-Founder, Lakes Konstelasi Data, West Java, Indonesia |
| | Awards: UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2018 |
| | Runner Up, Best Vision Paper, SSTD 2017 |
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Amr Magdy
| PhD. 2017 |
| | Title: Kite: A Scalable Microblogs Data Management System |
| | First/Current position: Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside (UCR) |
| | Awards: UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2015 |
| | Finalist, Microsoft PhD Fellowship 2014 |
| | Among Best Pepers, IEEE ICDE 2014 |
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Ahmed Eldawy
| PhD. 2016 |
| | Title: SpatialHadoop: A Map-Reduce framework for Big Spatial Data |
| | First position: Assistant Professor, University of California Riverside (UCR) |
| | Current position: Associate Professor, University of California Riverside (UCR) |
| | Awards: UMN Best Dissertation Award: Honorable Mention 2017 |
| | Runner Up, Best Poster Award IEEE ICDE 2015 |
| | Finalist, Symantec Graduate Fellowship 2015 |
| | UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2014 |
| | UMN UMN CS Academic Excellence Fellowship 2016 |
| | Among Best Pepers, IEEE ICDE 2012 |
| | Finalist, ACM SIGMOD Programming Contest 2011 |
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Abdeltawab Hendawi
| PhD. 2015 |
| | Title: Scalable Spatial Predictive Query Processing for Moving Objects |
| | First position: Post-Doc, University of Virginia |
| | Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island |
| | Awards: Best Demo Award, IEEE MDM 2015 |
| | Best Overall Poster, UMN Annual U-Spatial Symposium 2013 |
| | Best Design/Plan Poster, UMN Annual U-Spatial Symposium 2013 |
| | Best Workshop Paper Award ACM MobiGIS 2012 |
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Mohamed Sarwat
| PhD. 2014 |
| | Title: Database Systems Support for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems |
| | First position: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University |
| | Current position: Associate Professor, Arizona State University |
| | CEO and Co-Founder, Wherobots Inc., Scottsdale, AZ |
| | Awards: Best Paper Award, IEEE MDM 2015 |
| | Among Best Pepers, IEEE ICDE 2012 |
| | UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2012 |
| | Best Overall Poster, UMN Annual U-Spatial Symposium 2012 |
| | Best Paper Award SSTD 2011 |
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Jie Bao
| PhD. 2014 |
| | Title: Towards Location-aware News Feeds and Recommendations |
| | First position: Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia |
| | Current position: Tech Lead, Data Managemnet, JD Intelligent City Business Unit, Beijing, China |
| | Awards: ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award, 2022 |
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Justin Levandoski
| PhD. 2011 |
| | Title: Extensible Preference Evaluation in Database Systems |
| | First position: Researcher at Microsoft Research |
| | Current position: Director of Engineering, Google, USA |
| | Awards: Among Best Pepers, IEEE ICDE 2012 |
| | UMN ARCS Foundation Fellowship 2010 |
| | UMN Graduate School Fellowship 2006 |
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Mohamed Khalefa
| PhD. 2011 |
| | Title: Preference Queries Processing over Imprecise Data |
| | First position: Assistant Professor, Alexandria University, Egypt |
| | Current position: Assistant Professor, SUNY Old Westbury, NY |
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Chi-Yin Chow
| PhD. 2011 |
| | Title: Privacy-Preserving Location-based Services |
| | First position: Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong |
| | Current position: CEO and Co-Founder,Flowering Tree Tech Limited, London, UK |
| | Awards: VLDB 10-Years Best Paper Award, 2016 |
| | Best Paper Award, IEEE MDM 2009 |
| | UMN CS Academic Excellence Fellowship 2006, 2007 |
| | General Dynamics Fellowship Award 2006 |
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