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Best Demo Paper Award, IEEE MDM 2025
   
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Distinguished PC Member, ACM Sigspatial 2024
   
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Second Best Poster Award for my PhD student, Chamudi, at the URI AI Poster Competition 2024
   
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Bronze Medal (3rd place) for my PhD student, Chan, at the ACM SRC 2023
   
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Top three winners at the LaunchURI program summer 2023
   
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Best Demo Paper Award Runner-up, Pine System, at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018
   
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Best Poster Award, PreGo System, at UVa Research Symposium, Charlottesville, VA 2018
  
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Blue Sky Ideas Award, Computing Community Consortium(CCC), ACM SIGSPATIAL, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016
  
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Hobby postdoctoral Research Fellowship at CS UVA, Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
  
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Best Demo Paper Award, COMA System, IEEE MDM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 15 -18 June 2015
  
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Best Demo Paper Award, Panda System, IEEE MDM, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 15 -18 June 2015
  
							
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Best Demo Paper Award, iTornado System, ACM SIGSPATIAL, Dallas, Texas, 2014
  
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Data Science Research Fellowship, at the University of Washington, Tacoma Jan 2014-July 2015
 				
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Best Overall Poster Award, iRoad System, U-Spatial Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013
 
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Best Design/Plan Poster Award, iRoad System, U-Spatial Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013
 
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Best Paper Award, ACM SIGSPATIAL MobiGIS, Redondo Beach, California, 2012
 
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ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Student Travel Grant, Redondo Beach, California, 2012
 
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ACM SIGMOD Student Travel Grant, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2010
 
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1st in national research competition, Ministry of Higher Education, Cairo, Egypt, 2009
 
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Best TA Award, Database and Data Warehouse Courses, Cairo University, Egypt 2008