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D-Index
61
Citations
16056
World Ranking
3052
National Ranking
1493

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2013 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Mohamed F. Mokbel is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and social sciences, focusing notably on data management, human mobility, and geographic information systems.

The main fields of study for Mohamed F. Mokbel's work include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, their research further specializes in several subfields such as:

  • Signal Processing
  • Transportation
  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Information Systems
  • Ocean Engineering

The primary research topics associated with their publications cover:

  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Automated Road and Building Extraction
  • Geographic Information Systems Studies
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Contact tracing", 2020, published in SIGSPATIAL Special
  • "Network-less trajectory imputation", 2022, published in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • "Let's speak trajectories", 2022, published in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • "Mobility Data Science: Perspectives and Challenges", 2024, published in ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
  • "QARTA", 2021, published in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Sofiane Abbar
  • Mashaal Musleh
  • Rade Stanojević
  • Flora D. Salim
  • Andreas Züfle

Mohamed F. Mokbel has published extensively in several venues, with notable publication counts in:

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2022 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
  • SIGSPATIAL Special

Their professional recognition includes being named an ACM Senior Member in 2013 and an ACM Distinguished Member in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The new Casper: query processing for location services without compromising privacy

    Mohamed F. Mokbel;Chi-Yin Chow;Walid G. Aref

  • Location-based and preference-aware recommendation using sparse geo-social networking data

    Jie Bao;Yu Zheng;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • A peer-to-peer spatial cloaking algorithm for anonymous location-based service

    Chi-Yin Chow;Mohamed F. Mokbel;Xuan Liu

  • SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce framework for spatial data

    Ahmed Eldawy;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • Recommendations in location-based social networks: a survey

    Jie Bao;Yu Zheng;David Wilkie;Mohamed Mokbel

  • SINA: scalable incremental processing of continuous queries in spatio-temporal databases

    Mohamed F. Mokbel;Xiaopeing Xiong;Walid G. Aref

  • Enabling private continuous queries for revealed user locations

    Chi-Yin Chow;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • LARS: A Location-Aware Recommender System

    Justin J. Levandoski;Mohamed Sarwat;Ahmed Eldawy;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • SEA-CNN: scalable processing of continuous k-nearest neighbor queries in spatio-temporal databases

    X. Xiong;M.F. Mokbel;W.G. Aref

  • Spatial cloaking for anonymous location-based services in mobile peer-to-peer environments

    Chi-Yin Chow;Mohamed F. Mokbel;Xuan Liu

  • A demonstration of SpatialHadoop: an efficient mapreduce framework for spatial data

    Ahmed Eldawy;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • Casper*: Query processing for location services without compromising privacy

    Chi-Yin Chow;Mohamed F. Mokbel;Walid G. Aref

  • Trajectory privacy in location-based services and data publication

    Chi-Yin Chow;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • Towards Privacy-Aware Location-Based Database Servers

    M.F. Mokbel

  • LARS*: An Efficient and Scalable Location-Aware Recommender System

    Mohamed Sarwat;Justin J. Levandoski;Ahmed Eldawy;Mohamed F. Mokbel

  • Skyline Query Processing for Incomplete Data

    M.E. Khalefa;M.F. Mokbel;J.J. Levandoski

  • Probabilistic Verifiers: Evaluating Constrained Nearest-Neighbor Queries over Uncertain Data

    R. Cheng;Jinchuan Chen;M. Mokbel;Chi-Yin Chow

  • Hash-merge join: a non-blocking join algorithm for producing fast and early join results

    M.F. Mokbel;M. Lu;W.G. Aref

  • Continuous Query Processing of Spatio-Temporal Data Streams in PLACE

    Mohamed F. Mokbel;Xiaopeng Xiong;Moustafa A. Hammad;Walid G. Aref

  • Continuous Evaluation of Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbors

    J. M. Kang;M. F. Mokbel;S. Shekhar;Tian Xia

  • Nile: a query processing engine for data streams

    M.A. Hammad;M.F. Mokbel;M.H. Ali;W.G. Aref

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid G. Aref
Walid G. Aref Purdue University West Lafayette
Chi-Yin Chow
Chi-Yin Chow City University of Hong Kong
Suman Nath
Suman Nath Microsoft (United States)
Shashi Shekhar
Shashi Shekhar University of Minnesota
Yuxiong He
Yuxiong He Microsoft (United States)
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Qatar Computing Research Institute
David B. Lomet
David B. Lomet Microsoft (United States)
Amr El Abbadi
Amr El Abbadi University of California, Santa Barbara
Sameh Elnikety
Sameh Elnikety Microsoft (United States)
Tian He
Tian He University of Minnesota

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