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Biography
Muhammad Aamir Cheema is currently a Lecturer (since Nov-2013) at Monash University, Melbourne. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow (2011-2013) at School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (2008-2011) under the joint supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin and Dr. Wei Wang from UNSW, Australia.
His Ph.D. thesis studied efficient processing of proximity-based spatial queries such as reverse k nearest neighbors queries, range queries and k-closest pairs queries. The thesis was awarded 2012 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering. His current research interests include spatial databases, uncertain databases, data privacy and data quality.
Before he started his Ph.D., he served as Associate Lecturer at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. He taught Database Systems (COMP9311) in 07s2. He received his 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 the thesis was related to Nearest Neighbor Queries in Spatio-Temporal Databases. Interested readers can read this thesis (in the form of HTML pages) or as a pdf file. He completed his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (specialisation in Computers) from UET Lahore, Pakistan, from 2001 to 2005.
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Research interests
My current research interests include spatial databases, mobile and pervasive computing, computational geometry and uncertain databases. Currently, I am working on two research projects related to location-based services (LBS).
1. Next-Generation Spatial Keyword Search
The exponentially growing interest in location-based services and the availability of geo-tagged data call for a highly usable, spatial keyword search system that efficiently answers various location-based keyword queries. The aim of the project is to build the next-generation spatial keyword search system that addresses several limitations in the current systems by allowing more meaningful distance measures, modeling uncertainty in data sources and queries, and exploiting rich information from several data sources. The outcome of the project will be new theories, models, methodologies, and a prototype system that is highly usable and efficient, hence enabling more effective and efficient location-based applications.
2. Efficiently Querying Uncertain Spatial Space
Location-based services are becoming increasingly popular due to exponentially increased usage of smartphones and cheap wireless network. This project aims to provide effective and efficient techniques to solve the most representative location-based queries in uncertain spatial space with probabilistic constraints. The constraints can be modified to model various important travelling domains such as road networks, Euclidean space with obstacles and indoor space etc. The project also takes into account the uncertainty present in the real world data. The successful completion of the project will enhance the location-based services used by a broad class of users and applications.
Monash teaching commitment
Dr Aamir Cheema has experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT1004 Data management
- FIT3107 Advanced programming for database applications
Keywords
- Databases
- uncertain data
- computational geometry
- spatial databases
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Projects 2013 2020
Next-Generation Search on Social Networks
Wang, W., Cheema, M. A. & Mokbel, M.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Detecting and Monitoring Events using Uncertain Geo-textual Data
Cheema, M. A. & Zufle, A.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution
1/01/16 → 1/01/18
Project: Research
Efficiently querying uncertain spatial space
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/13 → 21/12/17
Project: Research
Research Output 2009 2018
Continuous monitoring of range spatial keyword query over moving objects
Salgado, C., Cheema, M. A. & Ali, M. E. May 2018 In : World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems. 21, 3, p. 687-712 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Location-aware group preference queries in social-networks
Sohail, A., Hidayat, A., Cheema, M. A. & Taniar, D. 1 Jan 2018 Databases Theory and Applications: 29th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2018, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, May 24-27, 2018, Proceedings. Wang, J., Cong, G., Chen, J. & Qi, J. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 53-67 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10837)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper
Maximize spatial influence of facility bundle considering reverse k nearest neighbors
Wang, S., Zhang, Y., Lin, X. & Cheema, M. A. 1 Jan 2018 Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 23rd International Conference, DASFAA 2018, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, May 21-24, 2018, Proceedings, Part I. Pei, J., Manolopoulos, Y., Sadiq, S. & Li, J. (eds.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 684-700 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10827)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper
Reverse Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries
Hidayat, A., Yang, S., Cheema, M. A. & Taniar, D. 1 Feb 2018 In : IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 30, 2, p. 339-352 14 p., 8081813Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Social-Aware Spatial Top-k and Skyline Queries
Sohail, A., Cheema, M. A. & Taniar, D. 2018 In : Computer Journal. p. 1-19 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prizes
Best Paper of the Year Award - Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Recipient), 2010
Prize: National/international honour
Best Paper of the Year Award - Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Recipient), 2009
Prize: National/international honour
Best Research Paper Award - Australasian Database Conference
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Recipient), 2010
Prize: National/international honour
Best Research Paper Award - International Conference on Web Information System Engineering
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Recipient), 2013
Prize: National/international honour
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Recipient), 2014
Prize: National/international honour
Activities 2016 2016
- 1 Committees and working groups
Member - Faculty Research Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Cheema, M. A. (Member)1 Jan 2016
Activity: Committees and working groups