Professor  Mohamed F Mokbel

Mohamed Mokbel is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota. Prior roles while on leave/sabbatical from UMN include Chief Scientist of Qatar Computing Research Institute, Founding Technical Director of GIS Technology Innovation Center in Saudi Arabia, and multiple times Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research, USA. His research interests include database systems and spatial computing. Mohamed was recognized by the VLDB 10-Year Test-of-Time Award for his work on location privacy, the IEEE ICDE 10-Year Influential Paper Award for his work on big spatial data, the ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award for his work on location-based social networks, and was short listed for another ACM SIGSPATIAL 10-Year Impact Award for his work on microblogs data management. Mohamed is the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Spatial algorithms and Systems (ACM TSAS), and is/was on the Editorial Board of ACM Books, ACM TODS, and VLDB Journal. He has served as the elected Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL, and PC Co-Chair for ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGSPATIAL. Mohamed is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. 

• A (Personal) Recipe for Computer Science (Systems) Research
  To achieve a high impact, computer science systems research needs to stem out from a real need and addresses practical problems for real customers. Solutions have to be simple to be deployed in...
• Large Language Models for Spatio-temporal Queries
  This talk gives a comprehensive overview of the research landscape of employing Large Language Models (LLMs) for spatio-temporal queries. The research landscape is categorized based on how LLMs...
• Machine Learning for Big Spatial Data and Applications
  This talk will focus on our recent efforts in adopting machine learning (ML) techniques for big spatial data and applications. This includes going for two orthogonal, but related, directions. In...
• On Building Spatially-Aware Systems
  The need to manage and analyze spatial data is hampered by the lack of specialized systems to support such data. System builders mostly build general-purpose systems that are generic enough...
• Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services
  Map services, including routing, searching, and prediction, have empowered a variety of ubiquitous services and applications, including transportation, location-based services, ride-sharing, and...