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Keynotes, Tutorials, and Invited Talks
Summary:
Two Distinguished Speaker Series in USA and Hong Kong. 18 Keynote speeches in Australia, China, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, UK, and USA.
21 Tutorials in major conferences (mostly co-presented with my PhD students). 65 Invited Talks as: 11 in USA academia, 11 in USA industry, and 42 in international institutions in Australia,
Belgium, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and UAE.
Distinguished Speaker Series
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"Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications".
60th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Jan 2022.
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"Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications".
Distinguished Speaker Series, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Oct 2021.
Keynotes
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"Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications".
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) GeoAI Workshop, GeoAI, Hong Kong, Oct. 2023.
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"Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services".
The IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, IEEE MDM, Singapore, July 2023.
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"Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications".
International ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Managing and Mining Enriched Geo-Spatial Data, GeoRich, Portland, OR, USA, June 2020.
- "Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications".
In the Geospatial Data Science Workshop at the ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, Hyderabad, India, Jan 2020.
- "Thinking Spatial".
The Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM, Beijing, China, July 2017.
- "The Era of Big Spatial Data". A Plenary Keynote for three parallel international conferences:
IEEE Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud),
IEEE Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom), and
IEEE Conference on Sustainable Computing (SustainCom) Atlanta, GA, October 2016.
(Plenary Keynote)
- "Location Data Management: A Tale of Two Systems and the Next Destination!".
In the International Conference on Very Large Databases, VLDB 2016, New Delhi, India, September 2016.
(VLDB 10-Years Best Paper Award Talk)
- "The Era of Big Spatial Data".
In the 27th Australian Database Conference (ADC), Sydney, Australia, September 2016.
- "Towards a Microblogs Data Management System".
In the 6th International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and
Information Management for Young Researchers, iDB, Nara, Japan, August
2015.
- "GIS & The Era of Big Spatial Data".
In the 10th National Saudi GIS Symposium, SaudiGIS,
Dammam, KSA, May 2015.
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"SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data".
ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, BigSpatial, 2014,
Dallas, TX, Nov., 2014.
- "SpatialHadoop: A
MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data".
In the Korean Conference of GIS, Seoul, South Korea, August 2014.
- "SpatialHadoop: A
MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data".
In the First IQmulus Workshop on Processing Large Geospatial Data,
Cardiff, UK, July 2014.
- "Towards GIS
Innovation in Saudi Arabia".
In the 9th National Saudi GIS Symposium, SaudiGIS,
Dammam, KSA, April 2014.
- " The
Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System".
In ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social
Networks, LBSN 2012, co-located with ACM
SIGSPATIAL GIS, Redondo Beach, CA, November, 2012.
- " Personalization,
Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-based Services 2.0.".
In International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and
Mobile Access, MobiDE 2011, co-located with
ACM SIGMOD, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
- " Location
Privacy in Casper: A Tale of Two Systems.". In
ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 International Workshop on Security and Privacy
in GIS and LBS, SPRINGL 2009, Seattle, WA, Nov,
2009.
- " Spatial
and Spatio-temporal Data Uncertainty: Modeling and Querying".
In ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 International Workshop on Querying and
Mining Uncertain Spatio-Temporal Data, QUeST 2009,
Seattle, WA, Nov, 2009.
Tutorials
- Youssef Hussein, Mohamed Hemdan, Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases,
VLDB 2025, London, UK, September 2005. (90-minutes).
- Youssef Hussein, Mohamed Hemdan, Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Large Language Models for Urban Mobility". In the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
MDM 2025, Irvine, CA, June 2025. (90-minutes).
- Ibrahim Sabek and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data". In the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
MDM 2021, Toronto, Canada, june 2021. (90-minutes).
- Ibrahim Sabek and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data". In the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering,
ICDE 2020, Dallas, TX, USA, April 2020. (90-minutes).
- Ibrahim Sabek and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases,
VLDB 2019, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2019. (90-minutes).
- Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data". In the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases,
SSTD 2019, Vienna, Austria, August 2019. (1 hour). (Invited Tutorial).
- Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
The Era of Big Spatial Data". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases,
VLDB 2017, Munich, Germany, August 2017. (90-minutes).
- Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Microblogs Data Management and Analysis".
In ACM International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2016, San Francisco, CA, June, 2016. (90-minutes).
- Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
The Era of Big Spatial Data".
In the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2016. (90-minutes).
- Amr Magdy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
Microblogs Data Management and Analysis".
In the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2016, Helsinki, Finland, May, 2016. (90-minutes).
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Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
The Era of Big Spatial Data".
In the IEEE International Conference on Big Data,
BigData 2015, Santa Clara, CA, Oct., 2015. (2 hours).
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Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel "
The Era of Big Spatial Data: Challenges and Opportunities".
In the 16th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
MDM 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2015. (90-minutes).
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Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel and Mohamed Sarwat " MobiSocial (Mobile and Social) Data Management: A Tutorial".
In IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering,
IC2E 2015, Tempe, AZ, Mar., 2015. (90-minutes).
- Mohamed
F. Mokbel "SpatialHadoop: A
MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data".
In the 6th International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web and
Information Management for Young Researchers, Fukouka, Japan, August
2014. (3 hours). (Invited Tutorial).
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Mohamed F. Mokbel and Mohamed Sarwat " Social
Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective Presenters".
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Databases,
VLDB 2013, Riva Del Garda, Italy,
August,
2013. (90-minutes).
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Mohamed Sarwat and Mohamed F. Mokbel " Social
Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective Presenters".
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data
Management, MDM 2013, Milan, Italy, June
2013. (90-minutes). [PPT] [PDF]
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Mohamed F. Mokbel "Privacy-Preserving
Location Services". In IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining, IEEE ICDM 2008, Pisa,
Italy, Dec 2008. (3 hours).
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Mohamed F. Mokbel "Privacy in
Location Services: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions".
In ACM International Conference on Computer and Communication Security,
ACM CCS 2007, Alexandria, VA, Oct,
2007. (90-minutes).
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Mohamed F. Mokbel "Privacy
in Location-Based Services: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions".
In IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM
2007, Mannheim, Germany May 2007. (3 hours).
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Mohamed F. Mokbel and, Walid G. Aref, "Location-aware Query Processing and
Optimization<". In IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2007,
Mannheim, Germany May 2007. (90-minutes). (Invited Tutorial).
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Mohamed F. Mokbel and, Walid G. Aref, "Location-aware
Query Processing". In International Conference on
Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2006, Munich,
Germany. (90-minutes).
Invited Talks
Thinking Spatial
- Egypt University of Informatics (EUI), Cairo, Egypt, September, 2025
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU)", Singapore, July, 2023
- American University of Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, May, 2022
- Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco, Nov., 2021 (Online)
- Google, Mountain View, CA, USA, Aug., 2021 (Online)
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University of Cyprus", Cyprus, Nov., 2019
- University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct., 2019
- Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Jul., 2017
- Huawei, Santa Clara, CA, Dec., 2016
- Uber, Palo Alto, CA, Dec., 2016
Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries
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EDBT Summer School on AI & Data Management, Nicosia, Cyprus, Jul, 2025
Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications
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EDBT Summer School on AI & Data Management, Nicosia, Cyprus, Jul, 2025
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Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, May, 2024
- Egypt University of Informatics (EUI), Cairo, Egypt, July, 2023
- American University of Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, May, 2022
- Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Mar., 2022 (Online)
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA Nov., 2021 (Online)
- Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Feb., 2020
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Hong Kong University", Hong Kong, Apr., 2019
Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services
- Berlin Inst. for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) Summer School, Germany, Sep, 2024
QARTA: An ML–Based System for Accurate Map Services
- University of Maryland, MD, Apr., 2021 (Online)
The Era of Big Spatial Data
- China Agriculture University, Beijing, China, Jul., 2017
- Qatar Computing Research Institute, QCRI, Doha, Qatar, Oct., 2016
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Sep., 2016
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, May, 2016
- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mining, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Mar., 2016
- New York University - Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb 2016
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Emory University", Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct., 2015
- King Abdulla Univ. of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Feb 2015
Towards a Microblogs Data Management System
- University of New South Wales, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Sep., 2016
SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data
- Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Aug 2014
- University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany, Jul, 2014
- King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA, May 2014
- Qatar Mobility Innovation Center, QMIC, Doha, Qatar, Feb 2014
- Qatar Computing Research Institute, QCRI, Doha, Qatar, Feb 2014
- King Abdulla Univ. of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2013
Social Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective
- Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Jul, 2014
Database Support for Recommender Systems
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University of Waterloo", Ontario, Canada, Feb., 2013
The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System
- Alexandria University, Egypt, Aug 2012
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, June 2012
Location, Location, Location, …
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Feb 2012
- Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2011
Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-Based Services 2.0
- King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2011
- Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, June 2011
GeoSocialDB: A Location-based Social Network
- NEC Labs, Cupertino, CA, May 2011
Privacy and Personalization in Location-based Database Servers
- University of Illinois Chicago, Oct 2010
- UC Santa Barbara, CA, Apr 2010
- University of Pittsburgh, PA, Apr 2010
- Georgia Tech, GA, Mar 2010
- Northwestern University, IL, Mar 2010
An Overview of Stream-based Projects at University of Minnesota
- Microsoft SQLServer - StreamInsight Group, Redmond, WA, Jul 2010
Scalability, Privacy, and Personalization: The Three Pillars of Ubiquitous Location Services
- IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Nov 2009
Towards Scalable and Privacy-Aware Location-Based Services
- National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, May 2009
- IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Dec 2007
- Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Cairo, Egypt, Aug 2007
- Karlsruhe University, Germany, May 2007
- Northeastern University, MA, Jan 2007
- Microsoft SQL-Server Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, Jul 2007
Partitioning the SQL Server Storage Engine: Prototype Performance and Range Locking
- Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Aug 2008
Data Uncertainty: Reasons and Queries
- Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Aug 2007
New Trends in Database Systems
- Alexandria University, Egypt, Jun., 2006
The New Casper: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy
- Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Jun., 2006
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May, 2006
Location-aware Query Processing
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Jun, 2006
PLACE: Scalable Continuous Query Processing in Location-aware Database Servers
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May, 2006
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