Mahmoud SAKR
Professor
Department of Computer and Decision Engineering
Data Science and Engineering Lab
Research
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I am associate professor at the Data Science and Engineering Lab in the Brussels School of Engineering at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). My research is in the area of data science and AI, with focus on spatial and mobility data.
I have special interest in system development, and standardization.
Topics: mobility data science, AI, database systems, big data, distributed data management, spatial and spatiotemporal data, international standards.
Activities
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2025: Organizer of a NII Shonan seminar on Advancing Mobility Data Science and Mobility AI , February 17 - 20, 2025, Shonan Village Center, Japan.
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2025: General chair of the The 26th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management , June, 2025
Irvine, USA.
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2024: General chair of the The 25th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management , June 24 - June 27, 2024
Brussels, Belgium.
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2024: Academic jury for the admission to the master of science in Computer Science and Engineering in the Brussels School of Engineering.
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2022-now: Multiple roles in the organizing committee of ACM SIGSPATIAL Conference.
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2021-2022: Issue Editor of GeoInformatica Journal Special Issue on Big Mobility Data Analytics (BMDA 2021), Springer.
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2020-now: Chair of the Standards Working Group on Moving Features - Open Geospatial Consortium OGC MF-SWG. The goals for the SWG are to develop and maintain moving features standard; including data model, exchange formats, service inerfaces, and data quality.
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2020: Member of the organization team of the Dagstuhl seminar on Mobility Data Science.
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2020: Member of the organization team of BMDA@EDBT/ICDT workshop on Big Mobility Data Analysis.
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2018-now: ULB coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus program on Big Data Management and Analytics BDMA
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2016-now: Co-founder of the MobilityDB open source moving object database. MobilityDB extends PostgreSQL and PostGIS with temporal and spatiotemporal data types and operations to support the managment of mobility data in SQL.
Scientific career
- Professor, Brussels School of Engineering, ULB, Belgium, 2020-now
- Researcher, ULB, Belgium, 2015-2020
- Assistant professor, Ain Shams University, Egypt, 2012-2015
- Doctorate in Computer Science, FernUni-Hagen, Germany, 2012
- Master in Computer Science, Ain Shams University, Egypt, 2001
Address
- ULB Campus du Solbosch, avenue Paul Héger
- Building U, entrance B locate on google maps
- Office room: 4th floor - UB4.123
- E-mail: mahmoud.sakr -at- ulb.be
- Department of Computer and Decision Engineering
- CP 165/15
- Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, 50
- B-1050 Bruxelles
- Belgique
