His current research interests focus on database systems, GIS, and big spatial data. His research work has been recognized by five best paper awards and by the NSF CAREER award 2010. Mohamed is/was General co-chair of SSTD 2011, Program co-chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2008-2010, and IEEE MDM 2011, 2014, Tutorial co-chair for ICDE 2014, and Sponsorship Co-Chair for ACM SIGMOD 2015-2016. He is in the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, and GeoInformatica. Mohamed has held various visiting positions at Microsoft Research-Redmond and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Mohamed is a founding member of ACM SIGSPATIAL and is currently serving as an elected chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL for the term 2014-2017. For more information, please visit: www.cs.umn.edu/~mokbel