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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


  1. "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.

  2. "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


  1. "Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications". Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) GeoAI Workshop, GeoAI, Hong Kong, Oct. 2023.

  2. "Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services". The IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, IEEE MDM, Singapore, July 2023.

  3. "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.

  4. "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.

  5. "Thinking Spatial". The Asia Pacific Web and Web-Age Information Management Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM, Beijing, China, July 2017.

  6. "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)

  7. "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)

  8. "The Era of Big Spatial Data". In the 27th Australian Database Conference (ADC), Sydney, Australia, September 2016.

  9. "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.

  10. "GIS & The Era of Big Spatial Data". In the 10th National Saudi GIS Symposium, SaudiGIS, Dammam, KSA, May 2015.

  11. "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data". ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, BigSpatial, 2014, Dallas, TX, Nov., 2014.

  12. "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data". In the Korean Conference of GIS, Seoul, South Korea, August 2014.

  13. "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data". In the First IQmulus Workshop on Processing Large Geospatial Data, Cardiff, UK, July 2014.

  14. "Towards GIS Innovation in Saudi Arabia". In the 9th National Saudi GIS Symposium, SaudiGIS, Dammam, KSA, April 2014.

  15. " 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.

  16. " 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.

  17. " 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.

  18. " 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
  1. 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).

  2. 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).

  3. 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).

  4. 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).

  5. 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).

  6. 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).

  7. 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).

  8. 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).

  9. 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).

  10. 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).

  11. 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).

  12. 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).

  13. 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).

  14. 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).

  15. 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). [PPT]   [PDF]

  16. 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]

  17. Mohamed F. Mokbel "Privacy-Preserving Location Services". In IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, IEEE ICDM 2008, Pisa, Italy, Dec 2008. (3 hours).

  18. 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).

  19. 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).

  20. 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).

  21. 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
  1. Egypt University of Informatics (EUI), Cairo, Egypt, September, 2025
  2. Nanyang Technological University (NTU)", Singapore, July, 2023
  3. American University of Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, May, 2022
  4. Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco, Nov., 2021 (Online)
  5. Google, Mountain View, CA, USA, Aug., 2021 (Online)
  6. University of Cyprus", Cyprus, Nov., 2019
  7. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, Oct., 2019
  8. Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, Jul., 2017
  9. Huawei, Santa Clara, CA, Dec., 2016
  10. Uber, Palo Alto, CA, Dec., 2016

    11. Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries
  11. EDBT Summer School on AI & Data Management, Nicosia, Cyprus, Jul, 2025

    12. Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications
  12. EDBT Summer School on AI & Data Management, Nicosia, Cyprus, Jul, 2025
  13. Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, May, 2024
  14. Egypt University of Informatics (EUI), Cairo, Egypt, July, 2023
  15. American University of Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt, May, 2022
  16. Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, Mar., 2022 (Online)
  17. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA, USA Nov., 2021 (Online)
  18. Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, Feb., 2020
  19. Hong Kong University", Hong Kong, Apr., 2019

    20. Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services
  20. Berlin Inst. for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) Summer School, Germany, Sep, 2024

    21. QARTA: An ML–Based System for Accurate Map Services
  21. University of Maryland, MD, Apr., 2021 (Online)

    22. The Era of Big Spatial Data
  22. China Agriculture University, Beijing, China, Jul., 2017
  23. Qatar Computing Research Institute, QCRI, Doha, Qatar, Oct., 2016
  24. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Sep., 2016
  25. University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, May, 2016
  26. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mining, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, Mar., 2016
  27. New York University - Abu Dhabi, UAE, Feb 2016
  28. Emory University", Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct., 2015
  29. King Abdulla Univ. of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Feb 2015

    30. Towards a Microblogs Data Management System
  30. University of New South Wales, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Sep., 2016

    31. SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data
  31. Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Aug 2014
  32. University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany, Jul, 2014
  33. King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA, May 2014
  34. Qatar Mobility Innovation Center, QMIC, Doha, Qatar, Feb 2014
  35. Qatar Computing Research Institute, QCRI, Doha, Qatar, Feb 2014
  36. King Abdulla Univ. of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2013

    37. Social Networking and Mobility: A Data Management Perspective
  37. Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Jul, 2014

    38. Database Support for Recommender Systems
  38. University of Waterloo", Ontario, Canada, Feb., 2013

    39. The Anatomy of Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System
  39. Alexandria University, Egypt, Aug 2012
  40. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, June 2012

    41. Location, Location, Location, …
  41. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Feb 2012
  42. Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2011

    43. Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-Based Services 2.0
  43. King Abdulla University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2011
  44. Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, June 2011

    45. GeoSocialDB: A Location-based Social Network
  45. NEC Labs, Cupertino, CA, May 2011

    46. Privacy and Personalization in Location-based Database Servers
  46. University of Illinois Chicago, Oct 2010
  47. UC Santa Barbara, CA, Apr 2010
  48. University of Pittsburgh, PA, Apr 2010
  49. Georgia Tech, GA, Mar 2010
  50. Northwestern University, IL, Mar 2010

    51. An Overview of Stream-based Projects at University of Minnesota
  51. Microsoft SQLServer - StreamInsight Group, Redmond, WA, Jul 2010

    52. Scalability, Privacy, and Personalization: The Three Pillars of Ubiquitous Location Services
  52. IBM T. J Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Nov 2009

    53. Towards Scalable and Privacy-Aware Location-Based Services
  53. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu City, Taiwan, May 2009
  54. IBM Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, Dec 2007
  55. Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center, Cairo, Egypt, Aug 2007
  56. Karlsruhe University, Germany, May 2007
  57. Northeastern University, MA, Jan 2007
  58. Microsoft SQL-Server Faculty Summit, Redmond, WA, Jul 2007

    59. Partitioning the SQL Server Storage Engine: Prototype Performance and Range Locking
  59. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, Aug 2008

    60. Data Uncertainty: Reasons and Queries
  60. Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, Aug 2007

    61. New Trends in Database Systems
  61. Alexandria University, Egypt, Jun., 2006

    62. The New Casper: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy
  62. Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Jun., 2006
  63. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May, 2006

    64. Location-aware Query Processing
  64. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Jun, 2006

    65. PLACE: Scalable Continuous Query Processing in Location-aware Database Servers
  65. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, May, 2006