Ibrahim Sabek

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Spatial Sciences

Education

2020, Doctoral Degree, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
2018, Master's Degree, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
2014, Master's Degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University
2010, Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Alexandria University

Biography

Ibrahim is an Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, and by courtesy, in the Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute at University of Southern California. He leads the Next-generation Data-Intensive Systems Group (NexDIG). Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Data Systems Group at MIT CSAIL and an NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellow (2020–2023). He earned his PhD in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in January 2020, where his dissertation received the University-wide Best Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention. Ibrahim is also a recipient of several honors and funding awards from various organizations, including NSF and Google.

Research Summary

Ibrahim is interested in building the next generation of data management, processing and analysis systems using machine learning and quantum computing. His research focuses on deeply understanding fundamental techniques in machine learning, quantum computing, and systems design, resulting in entirely new designs, algorithms, and data structures for data-intensive systems and applications. He also broadly researches data management for machine learning systems, scalable knowledge base construction, big spatial data management and analysis, video analytics, and causal analysis.

Awards

2025 ACM SIGMOD Distinguished Program Committee Member
2025 Google Systems and ML Junior Faculty Award
2025 Google Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) Research Award
2024 GUIDE-AI Workshop @ ACM SIGMOD Best Paper Award
2024 ACM SIGSPATIAL Best Demo Award
2024 Google Data Analytics and Insights (DANI) Research Award
2023 ACM SIGSPATIAL Outstanding Reviewer
2021 University of Minnesota Best Doctoral Dissertation Honorable Mention Award
2020 NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship
2019 University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
2019 ACM SIGSPATIAL First Place (Gold Medal) in ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition
2018 ACM SIGSPATIAL Best Paper Runner-Up
2016 University of Minnesota CS Academic Excellence Fellowship
2010 Alexandria University Best CS Bachelor’s Thesis

Appointments

Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Spatial Sciences Institute

Office

GCS 505-C
Ginsburg Hall
1031 Downey Way Los Angeles, CA 90089

Contact Information

(213) 821-2292
sabek@usc.edu

Links

Social Media

Return to Faculty Directory