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Mohamed Sarwat is an assistant professor of computer science and the director of the Data Systems (DataSys) lab at Arizona State University. Dr. Sarwat is a recipient of the 2019 National Science Foundation CAREER award and the 2014 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. His general research interest lies in developing robust data systems that improve life in cities. The outcome of his research has been recognized by two best research paper awards in the IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2015) and the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2011), a best of conference citation in the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012) as well as a best vision paper award (3rd place) in SSTD 2017. Besides impact through scientific publications, Mohamed is also the co-architect of several software artifacts, which include GeoSpark (a scalable system for processing big geospatial data) that is being used by major tech companies such as Uber, Facebook and MoBike. Dr. Sarwat spent the summers of 2011 and 2012 at NEC laboratories and Microsoft Research Redmond, respectively. He is an associate editor for the GeoInformatica journal and has served as an organizer / reviewer / program committee member for major data management and spatial computing venues. In June 2019, Dr. Sarwat has been named an Early Career Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Mobile Data Management community.

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Turbocharging Geospatial Visualization Dashboards via a Materialized Sampling Cube Approach, Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat. To appear in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2020, in Dallas, Texas April 2020
Spatial Data Management in Apache Spark: The GeoSpark Perspective and Beyond [Source Code], Jia Yu, Zongsi Zhang, and Mohamed Sarwat. in the International Journal on Advances of Computer Science for Geographic Information Systems, Springer GeoInformatica 2019
A Generic Database Indexing Framework for Large-Scale Geographic Knowledge Graphs, Yuhan Sun and Mohamed Sarwat. in proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2018, in Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2018
Database Systems Support for Personalized Recommendation Applications, Mohamed Sarwat, Raha Moraffah, Mohamed F. Mokbel, and James L. Avery. in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, IEEE ICDE 2017, in San Diego, CA April 2017
Two Birds, One Stone: A Fast, yet Lightweight, Indexing Scheme for Modern Database Systems [Source Code], Jia Yu and Mohamed Sarwat. in proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases Endowment, PVLDB 2016, Volume 10, issue 4. To be presented in VLDB 2017 in Munich Germany
LARS*: A Scalable and Efficient Location-Aware Recommender System, Mohamed Sarwat, Justin J. Levandoski, Ahmed Eldawy, and Mohamed F. Mokbel. in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE TKDE 2014
Horton+: A Distributed System for Processing Declarative Reachability Queries over Partitioned Graphs , Mohamed Sarwat, Sameh Elnikety, Yuxiong He, and Mohamed F. Mokbel, in PVLDB Vol. 6 Issue. 14, PVLDB 2013, presented in the 40th International Conference on Very Large Databases VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, China, Sept, 2014

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