Mahmoud Sakr
Professor at ULB, co-founder of MobilityDB and MobilityTwin.Brussels
Mahmoud Sakr is a professor at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a co-founder of MobilityDB, the open-source moving object database extension for PostgreSQL, and a co-founder of MobilityTwin.Brussels.
Mahmoud supervises the research direction of the project, bringing deep expertise in spatiotemporal data management.
Publications
- Brussels Mobility Twin (Data and Resources Paper) Gaspard Merten, Mahmoud Sakr. ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2023.
- Data-Driven Digital Mobility Twins Mahmoud Sakr. Keynote, LocalRec at ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2023.
- Experimental Probing of Graph Convolutional Neural Networks Architectures for Traffic Analysis B. Salehi, Mahmoud Sakr. IEEE ICDEW, 2024.
- Estimating Urban Traffic Using Public Transit Buses as Probes B. Salehi, Mahmoud Sakr. ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2025.
- GeoPandas-AI: A Smart Class Bringing LLM as Stateful AI Code Assistant Gaspard Merten, Gilles Dejaegere, Mahmoud Sakr. ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2025.
- Building a Foundation Model for Trajectory from Scratch Gaspard Merten, Mahmoud Sakr, Gilles Dejaegere. ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2025.
- Using LLMs for Analyzing AIS Data Gaspard Merten, Gilles Dejaegere, Mahmoud Sakr. Symposium on Maritime Informatics and Robotics (MARIS), 2025.
MobilityTwin.Brussels
Mahmoud Sakr co-founded MobilityTwin.Brussels with Gaspard Merten. It is an open data platform from ULB's CoDE lab: one API for live and historical data on how people and vehicles move in and around Brussels.