Short Bio
Education
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 Recent News
[Spring 2011] Got a demo paper accepted to SIGMOD 2012 in Scottsdale, AZ
[Winter 2012] Got a paper accepted to EDBT 2012 in Berlin, Germany
 
[Fall 2011] Got a full paper and a demo paper accepted to ICDE 2012 in Washington D.C.
[Summer 2011] Received Best Research Paper Award in SSTD 2011
 
[Summer 2011] Received Google Travel Grant Award to attend PersDB 2011 co-located with VLDB 2011 in Seattle, WA
[Summer 2011] paper accepted to PersDB 2011 in conjunction with VLDB 2011, in Seattle, WA
[Summer 2011] Visting NEC Labs in Cupertino, California for 3 months 
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Mohamed Sarwat
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
College of Science and Engineering
University of Minnesota
Short Bio
Mohamed Sarwat is a PhD candidate at the Computer Science and Engineering department, University Of Minnesota, where he also received his master's degree in computer science in 2011. His research interest lies in the broad area of Database systems, spatio-temporal databases, distributed graph databases, social networking, cloud computing, large scale data management, data indexing and storage systems. He has worked as a visting research assistant at Microsoft Research and NEC laboratories in summer of 2010 and 2011, respectively. He has been a recipient of Best Research Paper Award in 12th international symposium on spatial and temporal databases 2011. More details in Resume
Education
Selected Publications
2012
Sindbad: A Location-based Social Networking System
[PDF]
Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed F. Mokbel
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data SIGMOD 2012, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2012 (demo)
Horton: Online Query Execution Engine For Large
Distributed Graphs [PDF] [Media]
Mohamed Sarwat, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, Gabriel Kliot
To appear in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012 (demo)
LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System [PDF]
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy, Mohamed F. Mokbel
To appear in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering ICDE 2012, Washington D.C., April 2012
RecStore: An Extensible and Adaptive Framework for Online Recommender Queries inside the Database Engine
[PDF]
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Michael D. Ekstrand
To appear in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology EDBT 2012, Berlin, Germany, March 2012
2011
FAST: A Generic Framework For Flash-Aware Spatial Trees [PDF] [Slides] [Media]
Mohamed Sarwat, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xun Zhou, Suman Nath
In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases SSTD 2011, Minneapolis, MN, August 2011
(Best Research Paper Award)
Personalization, Socialization, and Recommendations in Location-based Services 2.0 [PDF]
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Jie Bao, Ahmed ElDawy, Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat
To appear in Proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases PersDB 2011 in Conjunction with VLDB 2011, Seattle, WA, September 2011
Graduate Coursework
- CSci8980: Understanding the Social Web, instructor John Riedl
- CSci5221: Advanced Computer Networks, instructor Zhi-Li Zhang
- IE 5541: Project Management, instructor Corrie Fiedler
- STAT 5021: Statistical Analysis, instructor Adam Rothman
- CSci 5115: User Interface Design, Implementation and Evaluation, instructor Loren Terveen
- CSci 8701: Overview of Database Research, instructor Jaideep Srivastava
- CSci 5708: Architecture and Implementation of DBMS, instructor Shashi Shekhar
- CSci 8715: Spatial Databases instructor Shashi Shekhar
- CSci 5421: Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures, instructor Ravi Janardan
- CSci 5707: Principles of Database Systems, instructor Jaideep Srivastava
- CSci 8001/2: Introduction to Research in Computer Science, instructor John V. Carlis
- CSci 8735: Advanced Database Systems, instructor Mohamed F. Mokbel
- CSci 8970: Computer Science Colloquium, instructor Yongdae Kim
Contact Information
Email:
sarwat@cs.umn.edu
Office/Lab:
2-208 EE/CSci Building (map to
EE/CSci)
Postal Address:
Mohamed Sarwat ElSayed
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
4-192 EE/CSci Bldg
University of Minnesota
200 SE Union Street
Minneapolis, MN 55455
USA
Phone Numbers:
+1 612 625 7581 - Office
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