Awards

  • AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award honorable mentioned (ranked in top 100 scholars) for Knowledge Engineering in 2021 .

  • Tentris–A Tensor-Based Triple Store. A Bigerl, F Conrads, C Behning, M Sherif, M Saleem, AC NgongaInternational Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2020 (spotlight paper)

  • Extending LargeRDFBench for Multi-Source Data at Scale for SPARQL Endpoint Federation by Ali Hasnainb, Muhammad Saleem, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann in ISWC Satellite Events and SSWS, 2018 (Best paper award)

  • CostFed: Cost-Based Query Optimization for SPARQL Endpoint Federation by Muhammad Saleem, Alexander Potocki, Tommaso Soru, Olaf Hartig, and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo in Semantics Semantics 2018 (Best research paper award)

  • Where is my URI? by A Valdestilhas, T Soru, M Nentwig, E Marx, M Saleem, ACN Ngomo Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) (Honorable mentioned)

  • Torpedo: Improving the State-of-the-Art RDF Dataset Slicing by Edgard Marx, Saeedeh Shekarpour, Tommaso Soru, Adrian M.P. Brasoveanu, Muhammad Saleem, Ciro Baron, Albert Weichselbraun, Jens Lehmann, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo, and Soren Auer in International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2017) (Honorable mentioned)

  • Best paper award at conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2014) with paper titled GenomeSnip: Fragmenting the Genomic Wheel to augment discovery in cancer research. [pdf]

  • Semantic Web Challenge-Big Data Track winner at ISWC2013 with paper titled Fostering Serendipity through Big Linked Data [pdf]

  • I-CHALLENGE (Linked Data Cup) winner at I-Semantics2013 with paper titled Linked Cancer Genome Atlas Database [pdf]

  • MS Scholarship by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for South Korea (2008-2010).