Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
4-192 EE/CS Building
200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455
Office: 4-207 EE/CS Building
Phone: (612) 626-3025
Email: mokbel@cs.umn.edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mokbel Research Interests: Databases, location-based services, data stream management systems,
spatio-temporal databases, data privacy.
Recent News:
Program Co-Chair for NSF Workshop
NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud, Arlington, VA, Feb 23-24, 2012.
(Webpage)
(CCC Blog)
Demo in SIGMOD 2012
Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Amr Magdy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel.
"
Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System".
In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2012,
Scottsdale, AZ, May, 2012.
Two Papers in 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. Selcted among BEst Papers and invited to IEEE TKDE
Jie Bao, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Chi-Yin Chow.
"
GeoFeed: A Location Aware News Feed System".
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2012,
Washington D.C., April 2012.
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.
Watch out for MobiDE Keynote:
http://itee.uq.edu.au/~mobide11/keynote.html
[May, 12, 2011] Congratulations to Justin Levandoski for successfully defending his PhD
dissertation. Justin will be joining Microsot Research as a Researcher starting August 2011
[May, 9, 2011] Congratulations to Mohamed Khalefa for successfully defending his PhD
dissertation. Khalefa will be joining Alexandria University, Egypt, as an Assistant Professor, starting August 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.
SIGMOD 2011 Demo
Badrish Chandramouli, Justin J. Levandoski, Ahmed Eldawy and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "
StreamRec: A Real-Time Recommender System".
In Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, ACM SIGMOD 2011,
Athenes, Greece, Jun., 2011.
CIDR 2011 Paper
Justin Levandoski, David Lomet, Mohamed F. Mokbel and Kevin Zhao.
"Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data ".
In Proceedings of the Biennial Conference on Innovating Data Systems Research, CIDR 2011,
Asilomar, CA, January 2011.
ICDE 2011 Paper
Mohamed Khalefa, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Justin Levandoski.
"PrefJoin: An Efficient Preference-aware Join Operator ".
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2011,
Hannover, Germany, April 2011 (full paper, acceptance rate 19.8%).
We have received an unrestricted gift of $15,000 from Microsoft Research, Database Group
Congratulations to Chi-Yin Chow for successfully defending his PhD dissertation. Chi-Yin will be joining the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor, starting August 2010
PI- National Science Foundation (NSF)- CAREER Award: IIS-0952977: CAREER: Extensible Personalization of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Database Management Systems. PI: Mohamed Mokbel, $530,000, 3/31/10 - 2/28/15.
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