Resume

Research Interests

Big Data Systems, Data Science, Big Data Systems, Database Management Systems and Spatiotemporal Databases, and Spatiotemporal Databases.

More specifically:

Real-time monitoring, mining and analysis of data streams
ture location prediction of moving objects in Location based Services
Processing and analysis of spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal data
Phenomenon detection and tracking in continuously evolving data and the associated social and environmental impact

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2007
- Thesis: Phenomenon-aware Data Stream Management Systems
- Advisor: Prof. Walid G. Aref
M.S., Computer Science, School of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 2001
- Thesis: PN-Tree, a data structure for parallel multidimensional indexing
B.S., Computer Science, School of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1999

Positions Held

• Associate Professor Sept 2014 – Present
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• Director of Graduate Studies Jan 2019 – Present
University of Washington-Tacoma

• Director, Center for Data Science Sept 2017 – Sept 2018
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• Graduate Program Coordinator, March 2017 – Present
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• Graduate Committee Chair, March 2015 – Sept 2018
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• Member of the Office of Global Affairs Advisory Council, April 2019 – Present
University of Washington-Tacoma

• Member of the faculty council, Sept 2017 – Sept 2018
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• Member of the leadership committee, Sept 2017 – Sept 2018
School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington-Tacoma

• UW Faculty Senator, Sept 2016 – Present
Representing the UW Tacoma campus

• Affiliate Assistant Professor Dec 2011 – Sept 2014

• Senior Software Development Engineer May 2007 – Sept. 2014
Microsoft Research, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Bing

Honors and Highlights

Keynote Speaker. the third IEEE international Workshop on Big Spatial Data, in conjunction with the International Conference on Big Data, December 2018, Seattle, WA, USA.
Member of the 10-year best paper award committee, the ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems, (Seattle, WA 2018).
Committee member of the Collaborative Publicly Engaged Scholarship (CPES 2017) Fund, that funds research to bridge the gap between the UWT and the community.
General Chair. The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems, (Seattle, WA 2015 – San Francisco, CA 2016).
Keynote Speaker. The NSF CyberGIS Project All-Hands Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2013.
Keynote Speaker. The Second International ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Geostreaming (IWGS 2011), Chicago, IL, 2011.
Keynote Speaker. The first International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application (Com.Geo). Washington D.C., June 2010.

Awards

Best Demo Award Runners Up. The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2018.
10 Most Downloaded Journal Articles. The "Guest editorial: GeoStreaming" journal paper has been recognized among the “10 Most Downloaded Journal Articles” according to the Springer’s highlights in Geography, 2017.
ACM Recognition of Service Award. For the contribution to the ACM SIGSPATIAL community and chairing the flagship conference in 2015 and 2016.
Third place Best Vision Paper, Computing Community Consortium, CCC - Blue Sky Ideas Award. The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), San Francisco, CA, 2016.
Best Demo Award. The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), Dallas, Texas, 2014.
Best Demo Award. The International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 2015.
Best Poster Award Runners Up. The ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL), Seattle, Washington, USA, November 2009.

Mohamed Ali