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.

Recent News:

Best paper award: IEEE MASS 2008
- Shuo Guo, Tian He, Mohamed F. Mokbel, John A. Stankovic, and Tarek Abdelzaher. "On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2008, Atlanta, GA, Sep. 2008. (acceptance rate 13%)
The Chameleon paper is accepted as a short paper in IEEE ICDE 2009
- Hicham G. Elmongui, Walid G. Aref, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. "Chameleon: Context Awareness inside DBMSs". In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2009, Shanghai, China, March, 2009 (short paper, acceptance rate 27%)

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.