Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

• Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) Award from Google, 2024 - 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
• First Place (Gold Medal) in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 Student Research Competition, 2019
• University-wide Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019 - 2020
• 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

Conference Grants

• NSF Travel Award from VLDB, 2019 and ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2015, 2017 - 2018
• ACM Student Travel Award from ACM SIGMOD, 2017 and ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2019
• IEEE Student Travel Award from IEEE WCNC, 2013
• IEEE Student Travel Award from IEEE ISDA, 2010