Aamir Cheema wins 2012 international research award

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Muhammad Aamir Cheema wins 2012 Malcolm Chaikin Award for Research Excellence in Engineering.

04 September,2012 09:50 pm

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, a research fellow at School of Computer Science and Engineering, has received The 2012 Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering. This significant prize brings with it a Medal and $10,000 and is given each year to the doctoral student in the Faculty of Engineering who is refereed to have produced the best PhD thesis, in the broadest sense, within the calendar year.Aamir obtained his PhD from School of Computer Science and Engineering under the primary supervision of Prof. Xuemin Lin and the joint supervision of Dr. Wei Wang. Aamirs research emphases on efficiently processing location-based queries and has significant impact on various domains such as in Location-Based Services (LBS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Surveying, Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI), Mutli-media Information Systems, and medicine and biological research etc.His PhD thesis proposes state-of-the-art techniques for several important location-based queries such as reverse k nearest neighbor queries, range queries and k-closest pairs queries that have many interesting applications such as finding the nearest facilities (e.g., ATMs, restaurants), navigation and location-based SMS advertisement etc.During his PhD, Aamir published 17 research papers 12 of which appeared in top-tier conferences and journals. His PhD thesis titled Efficiently Processing Proximity Based Spatial Queries is a collection of eight of his best publications including four top-tier conference papers and four top-tier journal papers. His publications won him several awards including two best paper nominations in ICDE 2010 and ICDE 2012, the best poster award in ICDE 2011, the best paper award in ADC 2010, and two CiSRA best research paper awards in 2009 and 2010, consecutively.Aamirs PhD thesis was highly appreciated by the examiners. One of the examiners said, this is the best thesis I ever reviewed, in terms of research quality. Another examiner recommended the thesis for best thesis award and mentioned that it is based on the candidates research achievement, I strongly recommend the candidate for thesis award in your university if any.He also gave a commencement speech at UNSW that can be accessed on youtube.