Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Muhammad Aamir Cheema is an ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor at the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He obtained his PhD from UNSW Australia in 2011. His research interests include spatial databases, location data management and analytics, and routing and scheduling in road networks.
He is the recipient of 2012 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering, 2013 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 2014 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, 2018 Future Fellowship, 2018 Monash Student Association Teaching Award and 2019 Young Tall Poppy Science Award. He has also won two CiSRA best research paper of the year awards, two invited papers in the special issue of IEEE TKDE on the best papers of ICDE, and three best paper awards at ICAPS 2020, WISE 2013 and ADC 2010, respectively. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE TKDE and DAPD and served as PC co-chair for ADC 2015, ADC 2016, 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop ISA 2016 & 2018, IWSC 2017, proceedings chair for DASFAA 2015 & ICDE 2019.
Research interests
My current research interests include spatial databases, location data management and analytics, and routing and scheduling in road networks. His current research projects can be found at the link below:
https://supervisorconnect.it.monash.edu/supervisors/aamir-cheema
Monash teaching commitment
Dr Aamir Cheema has taught the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT2004 Algorithms and Data Structures
- FIT1045 Algorithms and Programming Fundamentals in Python
- FIT1004 Data management
- FIT3107 Advanced programming for database applications
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales
Award Date: 11 Nov 2011
Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Engineering, University of New South Wales
Award Date: 31 Aug 2007
Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore
Award Date: 16 Aug 2005
Research area keywords
- Databases
- uncertain data
- computational geometry
- spatial databases
Network
Recent external collaboration on country/territory level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots or
-
A Ubiquitous System for Indoor Location-Based Services
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/19 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
-
-
Data Management Foundations for Indoor LBS
Lu, H., Shou, L. & Cheema, A.
1/01/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
-
Next-Generation Search on Social Networks
Wang, W., Cheema, A. & Mokbel, M.
1/01/18 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
-
Detecting and Monitoring Events using Uncertain Geo-textual Data
Cheema, A. & Zufle, A.
Monash University – Internal University Contribution
1/01/16 → 1/01/18
Project: Research
-
Comparing alternative route planning techniques: a comparative user study on Melbourne, Dhaka and Copenhagen road networks
Li, L., Cheema, M. A., Lu, H., Ali, M. E. & N. Toosi, A., 4 Mar 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Density-based reverse nearest neighbourhood search in spatial databases
Allheeib, N., Islam, M. S., Taniar, D., Shao, Z. & Cheema, M. A., 30 Oct 2021, In: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 12, p. 4335–4346 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Reverse approximate Nearest Neighbor queries on road network
Li, X., Hidayat, A., Taniar, D. & Cheema, M. A., 2021, In: World Wide Web. 24, 1, p. 279-296 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
-
Auto-scaling of Web applications in clouds: a tail latency evaluation
Aslanpour, M. S., Toosi, A. N., Gaire, R. & Cheema, M. A., 2020, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2020. Brandic, I. & Sakellariou, R. (eds.). Piscataway NJ USA: IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 186-195 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Continuously monitoring alternative shortest paths on road networks
Li, L., Cheema, M. A., Ali, M. E., Lu, H. & Taniar, D., 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. Balazinska, M. & Zhou, X. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 2243-2255 13 p. (Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment; vol. 13, no. 11).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
-
Best Paper of the Year Award - Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Cheema, Aamir (Recipient), 2010
Prize: National/international honour
-
Best Paper of the Year Award - Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Cheema, Aamir (Recipient), 2009
Prize: National/international honour
-
Best Research Paper Award - Australasian Database Conference
Cheema, Aamir (Recipient), 2010
Prize: National/international honour
-
Best Research Paper Award - International Conference on Web Information System Engineering
Cheema, Aamir (Recipient), 2013
Prize: National/international honour
-
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Cheema, Aamir (Recipient), 2014
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
- 1 Committees and working groups
-
Member - Faculty Research Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Aamir Cheema (Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups