CSE Professor Ahmed Eldawy has received the Ten-Year Influential Paper Award at ICDE 2025, alongside Professor Mohamed Mokbel from the University of Minnesota, for their groundbreaking 2015 paper, "SpatialHadoop: A MapReduce Framework for Spatial Data."
This prestigious award honors a paper that has stood the test of time and made a lasting impact a decade after its publication. SpatialHadoop sparked a wave of research in big spatial data and has significantly influenced advancements in research, education, and industry.