Mohamed Mokbel

Funding

Mohamed F. Mokbel

Assistant Professor

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, continuous query processing, indexing techniques, adaptive query optimization, data privacy.

Program Co-Chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009, Seattle, WA, Nov 2009

Recent News:

We have received an unrestricted gift of $20,000 from Microsoft Research, Database Group
Two Journal Papers at TMC and GeoInformatica
- Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Tian He. "A Privacy-Preserving Location Monitoring System for Wireless Sensor Networks". IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE TMC 2010, To Appear, 2010
- Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Xuan Liu. "Peer-to-Peer Aggregate Spatial Cloaking for Anonymous Location-based Services". GeoInformatica 2010, To Appear, 2010
ICDE 2010 paper
- Justin Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Mohamed Khalefa. "FlexPref: A Framework for Extensible Preference Evaluation in Database Systems". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010, Long Beach, CA, March, 2010 (full paper, acceptance rate 12.5%).
TODS 2009 paper
- Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and Walid G. Aref. "Casper*: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy". ACM Transactions on Database Systems, TODS 2009, Accepted. To appear.
VLDB 2009 paper
- David B. Lomet and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Locking Key Ranges with Unbundled Transaction Services". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2009, Lyon, France, August 2009. (acceptance rate 16.7%).
Best Paper Award at 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 (full paper, acceptance rate 26.1%)
VLDB Journal 2009 paper
- Jinchuan Chen, Reynold Cheng, Mohamed Mokbel, and Chi-Yin Chow. "Scalable Processing of Snapshot and Continuous Nearest-Neighbor Queries over One-Dimensional Uncertain Data". VLDB Journal, Accepted. To Appear.
TKDE 2009 paper
- James M. Kang, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Shashi Shekhar, Tian Xia, and Donghui Zhang. "Incremental and General Evaluation of Reverse Nearest Neighbors". IEEE Transaction of Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE TKDE, To Appear, 2009
SSTD 2009 paper
- Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed Mokbel, Joe Naps and Suman Nath. "Approximate Evaluation of Range Nearest-Neighbor Queries with Quality Guarantee". In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2009, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2009 (full paper, acceptance rate 32.25%)
We have received an unrestricted gift of $20,000 from Microsoft Research, Database Group
ICWS 2009 paper
- Justin Levandoski and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "RDF Data-Centric Storage". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services , ICWS 2009, Los Angeles, CA, July 2009 (full paper, acceptance rate 18%)
SDM 2009 paper
- Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilis S. Verykios, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Identifying Unsafe Routes for Network-Based Trajectory Privacy". In Proceedings of the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2009, Sparks, Nevada, Apr 2009 (full paper, acceptance rate 15.67%)

We have received two NSF Awards to start on Sept., 1st, 2008.

PI- National Science Foundation (NSF): III-COR-Small: Towards Ubiquitous Location Services: Scalability and Privacy of Location-based Continuous Queries. PI: Mohamed Mokbel, $449,976, 09/01/08 - 6/30/11.
PI- National Science Foundation (NSF): III-COR-Small: Collaborative Research: Preference- And Context-Aware Query Processing for Location-based Data-base Servers. PI: Mohamed Mokbel, $237,985, 09/01/08 - 6/30/11.