Research Grants and Professional Services

• Research Grants
  
• Research Services
  
• Selected Talks
  
• Teaching
  

Research Grants

External grants:

1. ARC Discovery Project, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi, Hesham Rakha "Driving Towards Greener and Safer Roads using Big Spatiotemporal Data", $350,000 (2023-2025)
2. ARC Future Fellowship, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "A ubiquitous system for indoor location-based services", $903,640 from ARC and $161,893 from Monash, (2019-2023)
   
3. ARC Discovery Project, Wei Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, and Mohamed Mokbel, "Next-Generation Search on Social Networks", $357,675 (2018-2020)
4. Australia- Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Andreas Zufle, "Detecting and Monitoring Events using Uncertain Geo-textual Data", (18,000 AUD + 16,000 EUR)
5. ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Efficiently Querying Uncertain Spatial Space", $375,000 (2013-2015)
   
6. ARC Discovery Project, Wei Wang and Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Next-Generation Spatial Keyword Search", $360,000 (2013-2015)

Internal grants:

1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi "Battery-on-wheels: Reducing emissions by using multi-objective route and charge planning for EVs", $104,000, Monash University (2022-2023)
   
2. Aslanpour, M. S., Nadjaran Toosi, A., Cheema, A. M., Baruwal Chhetri, M. "Sustainable Serverless Edge Computing for the Internet of Things", $13,692, Building 4.0 CRC (2022-2023).
3. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Anwaar Ulhaq, Mohammed Eunus Ali "Spatial Digital Twins", $165,000, Monash University (2022)
   
4. Adel N. Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema "Vehicular Edge Computing", $35,000, Monash University (2021)
   
5. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi "Using big spatiotemporal data for improving road safety", $35,000, Monash University (2021)
   

Research services

• Editorial Roles
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2018 - ), Distributed and Parallel Databases (2020 - )
  • Section Co-Editor: Encylopedia of Big Data Technologies
  • Guest Co-Editor:
    • Special Issue of Sensors on "Applications of Simulation for Engineering Intelligent IoT Systems".
    • Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems on Generating Human Readable Explanations in NLP 2021.
    • Special issue of Information Processing and Management on Social Geo-Media Data Mining, Retrieval and Management 2020-2021
    • Special issue of Neurocomputing on Real-time Dynamic Network Learning for Location Inference Modelling and Computing 2020-2021, Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems on Special Issue on Deep Learning for Spatial Algorithms and Systems 2019-2020.

• Organization / Program Committee
  • PC co-chair: ADC 2015, ADC 2016
  • Publication co-chair: ICDE 2019, DASFAA 2015
  • Tutorial co-chair: MDM 2019, APWeb 2017
  • Publicity co-chair: ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018
  • Workshop co-chair: International Workshop on Social Computing (IWSC) affiliated with WWW 2017, First International Workshop on Management of Spatial Temporal Data (MSTD 2013), Indoor Spatial Awareness @ ACM SIGSPATIAL
  • Local organization co-chair: The 15th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWEB 2013)
    
  • Invited Reviewer (the list is no longer maintained)
    
    • Assessor for ARC (Australian Research Council) DECRA, Future Fellowships, Linkage Projects
    • 2015. VLDBJ, IEEE-TKDE, Information Systems, Information Science, DAPD, IEEE Transactions on the Web, WWWJ, GeoInformatica
    • 2014. VLDBJ, IEEE-TKDE, Information Sciences, GeoInformatica, TLDKS Special Issue, IEEE, Transactions on the Web
    • 2013. TODS, IEEE-TKDE, WWWJ, KAIS, Information Systems
    • 2012. VLDBJ, IEEE-TKDE, KAIS, IEEE-TMC, DAPD, Information Systems, Computer Journal
    • 2011. VLDBJ, IEEE-TKDE, KAIS
    • 2010. VLDBJ, IEEE-TKDE
    • 2009. IEEE-TKDE

Selected Talks

• "Recent Progress in Pathfinding for Indoor Venues and Game Maps", Keynote at APWEB-WAIM 2022.
  
• "Efficient Pathfinding using Compressed Path Databases (CPDs)", Guest Lecture, University of Sydney, 2022.
  
• "Spatial Data Quality in the IoT Era: Management and Exploitation", Tutorial, ACM SIGMOD, 2022.
  
• "Tips for Academic Publishing in Data Engineering", Monash University, 2022.
  
• "Indoor Data Management: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities", Invited Talk at ADC 2020.
  
• "Effective Time Management", Invited Talk, Monash Early Career Academic Committee, 2020.
  
• "Indoor Data Management", Tutorial at ICDE 2016.
  
• "Research Trends in Location-Based Services", Distinguished Young Lecturer Seminar at APWeb 2015
  
• "Influence computation in spatial databases", Invited Tutorial at APWeb 2015
  
• "Selecting Representative Objects Considering Coverage and Diversity ", Invited talk at GeoRich 2015 (SIGMOD Workshop)
  
• "Trends in Location Based Services", Invited talk at IEEE ICOSST 2013
  
• "Trends in Location Based Services", Keynote speech at IEEE iTOF 2012
  
• "Lazy Updates: An Efficient Technique to Continuously Monitoring Reverse kNN", Invited talk at Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA), 2009.
  
• "What is research? What are higher education opportunities in Australia?", Invited talk at University of Lahore, Pakistan, 2007.

Teaching

My teaching at Monash University includes the following units.

• Algorithms and Data Structures (FIT2004)
• Algorithms and Programming Fundamentals in Python (FIT045)
• Databases (FIT2094)