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Muhammad Aamir Cheema
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Last modified: Thursday, 17th May, 2012
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Introduction
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I am currently a Research Fellow at School of Computer
Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. I obtained my PhD degree (2008-2011) under the joint supervision of
Prof. Xuemin Lin and Dr. Wei Wang from
UNSW, Australia.
My research interests include spatial databases, uncertain databases, data privacy and data quality.
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.
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Professional Activities
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- Conference Organization / Program Committee
- Local Organization Co-chair: The 15th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2013)
- PC member: The 6th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2011)
- PC member: The 5th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST 2010)
- Reviewer
- Invited: IEEE-TKDE (2009-2012), VLDBJ (2010-2012), KAIS (2011-2012), IEEE-TMC, DAPD
- External: VLDBJ, TKDE, VLDB, ICDE, FAW, DASFAA, EDBT.
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Teaching Activities
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I regularly serve as a tutor at UNSW (mostly for courses related to Databases). Other than this, I have performed following teaching duties in past.
Students' Feedback:
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Academic Achievments
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- Winner of 2012 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering.
- Our paper titled "Efficiently Monitoring Top-k Pairs over Sliding Windows" was invited to special issue of IEEE-TKDE on "Best Papers of ICDE 2012".
(Authors: Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Haixun Wang).
- In ICDE 2011, all authors were invited to present a poster in addition to a regular 20 minutes presentation. Our poster won
Poster of the day award at ICDE2011.
[poster]
- Winner of 2010 CiSRA Best Research Paper Award for the paper titled "Influence Zone: Efficiently Processing Reverse k Nearest Neighbors Queries",
(Authors: Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang).
- Winner of 2009 CiSRA Best Research Paper Award for the paper titled "Lazy Updates: An Efficient Technique to Continuously Monitoring Reverse kNN",
(Authors: Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Wenjie Zhang).
- Our paper titled "Multi-Guarded Safe Zone: An Effective Technique to Monitor Moving Circular Range Queries" was invited to special issue of IEEE-TKDE on "Best Papers of ICDE 2010".
(Authors: Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ljiljana Brankovic, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Wei Wang).
- Best Paper of ADC (Australasian Database Conference) 2010 for the paper titled "Counting Distinct Objects over Sliding Windows",
(Authors: Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin).
- Winner of ACM@UNSW 2005 programming competition.
- Third position in South Pacific Programming Contest Sydney Region.
- Winner of scholarship offered by Ministery of Science and Technology Pakistan.
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Extra Curricular Achievments
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- 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.
  
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