Muhammad Aamir Cheema- PhD Student, Database Research Group, University of New South Wales Australia.

Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Supervisor: Prof. Xuemin Lin
Joint Supervisor: Dr. Wei Wang

School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA

Office: K17, 201-24
Phone: +61 2 9385 5539
Mobile: +61 434 025 841
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Last modified: Friday, 06th November, 2009

Introduction

I started my PhD studies in March 2008 under the joint supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin and Dr. Wei Wang. My current research interests include spatial databases and uncertain databases.

Before I started my PhD, I served as Associate Lecturer at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. I taught Database Systems (COMP9311) in 07s2. I received Masters by Research degree in Computer Science and Engineering from UNSW, Australia (2005-2007) under the supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin. The research problem addressed in my thesis was related to Nearest Neighbor Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases. Interested readers can read my thesis (in form of HTML pages) or pdf file. I completed my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (specialization in Computers) from UET Lahore, Pakistan, from 2001 to 2005.

Teaching Activities

I worked at UNSW as Associate Lecturer from July 2007 to December 2007. I taught Database Systems (COMP9311) in 07s2.
I served as Lecturer from July 2006 to March 2007 at James Cook University, ITTI Sydney Campus. I taught three postgraduate courses Portable Programming, Internet/E-Business Technologies and Operating Systems and Architectures.I also taught the Diploma courses named Business Communications and C++ Programming 2 in ITTI Sydney.
I worked as tutor and lab supervisor at UNSW Sydney for Database Systems Implementation and Database Systems from February 2006 to July 2006.

Students' Feedback:

CATEI Evaluation Report (official anonymous survey conducted by UNSW)
Unofficial Survey Results (anonymous survey conducted by me to get detailed feedback)

Academic Achievments

Winner of ACM@UNSW 2005 programming competition.
Third position in South Pacific Programming Contest Sydney Region.
Fifth position in entry test of UET Lahore. Every year more than 8000 students take this test.
Winner of scholarship offered by Ministery of Science and Technology Pakistan.

Extra Curricular Achievments

Urdu Editor of ECHO 2005, Official magazine of UET Lahore.
"Best Humorous Writer Award" consecutively two years for Essay writing competitions held in 2003 and 2004 in UET Lahore. I have been writing to different famous pakistani monthly magazines like Urdu Digest. I have also been writing for children magazines. Here are some of Humorous Articles written by me.
Winner of Annual Skit Competition organized by Dramatic Society UET Lahore.My skit "Jungle Online" got best skit award in 2003 and "Death Impossible" got best production award in 2004.
Participated in All Pakistan Inter Board Badminton tournament held in Larkana as a member of Multan board team.
Participated in First Pakistan University Games as a Captain of Badminton team of UET Lahore.
Participated as a goal keeper of hockey team which secured first position in Inter Faculty tournament 2003.
Participated as a captain of table tennis team of Electrical Engineering which got Runner up prize in Inter-faculty competition 2004.