Funding Awards and Grants
- National Science Foundation (NSF)-2544715 (PI): CAREER: Toward Quantum-Augmented Database Systems, $627,250, Award Period: 05/2026 - 04/2031
- National Science Foundation (NSF)-GEO-2609584 (Co-PI): Innovative Resources: Unified Community Velocity Model-Next: A Community-governed Cyberinfrastructure for Earthquake Science, $255,000, Award Period: 07/2026 - 06/2029
- National Science Foundation (NSF)-POSE-2520163 (Co-PI): POSE: Phase I: Open-source Ecosystem for Light-Weight Geospatial Data Sharing and Exploration, $134,780, Award Period: 09/2025 - 08/2026
- Google Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) Research Award, $50,000, Award Time: 09/2025
- Google Systems and ML Junior Faculty Award, $100,000, Award Time: 06/2025
- Google Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) Research Award, $50,000, Award Time: 12/2024
Honors and Fellowships
- Distinguished Program Committee Member in ACM SIGMOD, 2026
- Distinguished Program Committee Member in ACM SIGMOD, 2025
- Selected for "Best of VLDB" Papers, 2025
- Best Demo in ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2024 [Certificate]
- Best Workshop Paper in ACM SIGMOD 2024 GUIDE-AI Workshop, 2024
- Outstanding Reviewer in ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2023
- Computing Innovation Fellowship from National Science Foundation and Computing Research Association, 2020 - 2023
- Kaufman Teaching Certificate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022 [Certificate]
- University-wide Best Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2021
- University-wide Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019 - 2020
- First Place (Gold Medal) in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Student Research Competition, 2019
- Best Paper Candidate in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, and invited to ACM TSAS special issue on best papers
- Selected Among Top 10 Finalists in ACM SIGMOD 2017 Student Research Competition, 2017
- Academic Excellence Fellowship from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Spring 2016
- Best CS Bachelor’s Thesis Award from Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, 2010
- Excellence Certificates of Honor from Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, 2006 - 2010
- Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award from IAESTE Germany and Alexandria University Egypt, 2009