Dr. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Executive Director
BS, Computer Science
University of Dayton (1977)
Distinguished alumnus, 1995
MS, Computer and Information Science
Ohio State University (1981)
Ph.D., Computer Science
Ohio State University (1985)
Distinguished alumnus, 1993
Biography
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is the Qatar Foundation’s inaugural executive director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before joining Qatar Foundation, he was director of both the Indiana Center for Database Systems and the Cyber Center at Purdue University’s Discovery Park and a professor of Computer Science at Purdue, where he taught and researched for 22 years. Early in his career, in 1988, he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator award from President Ronald Reagan. The Ohio State University (1993) and the University of Dayton (1995) have both named him among their distinguished alumni. He is a fellow of the IEEE and an ACM distinguished scientist. His expertise is in database technology, data integration and quality.
Dr. Elmagarmid is the editor-in-chief of Distributed and Parallel Databases: an International Journal and is on editorial board of six journals. He has chaired and served on several program committees. He was the general chair of the ACM SIGMOD conference in 2010.
During the acquisition of Compaq by Hewlett-Packard, Dr. Elmagarmid served as a chief scientist in HP’s Office of Strategy and Technology. While at HP, he was responsible for the corporate CTO office’s software strategy and contributed to HP’s innovations such as cross-company roadmap initiatives. He has also served on the HP technology council. Dr. Elmagarmid works as an industry consultant in the areas of database systems and cyber infrastructure. He has consulted (among many others) for Telcordia Technology, Bellcore, IBM,CSC, Harris, D. H. Brown and Associates, MCC, Bell Northern Research, Molecular Design Labs, and UniSql.
Recent Publications (since joining QCRI):
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jennifer Neville, Mourad Ouzzani, Ihab F. Ilyas “Guided Data Repairing“, In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 279-289 (2011).
Hazem Elmeleegy, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Jaewoo Lee: “Leveraging Query Logs for Schema Mapping Generation in UMAP“, In Proc. of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, SIGMOD 2011, pp. 121-132, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Hazem Elmeleegy, Mourad Ouzzani, and Alan Qi “Behavior Based Record Linkage“, In Proc. of the 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases, PVLDB 2010, pp. 279-289, Singapore, September 2010.
Hazem Elmeleegy, Mourad Ouzzani, Ahmed Elmagarmid, and Ahmad Abusalah “Preserving Privacy and Fairness in Peer-to-Peer Data Integration“, Proc. of the 2010 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 759-770, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 2010.
M. Y. Eltabakh, W. G. Aref, A.K. Elmagarmid, Y. Laura-Silva, and M. Ouzzani. “Supporting Real World Activities in Database Management Systems“, 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), March 1-6, 2010, Long Beach, CA, USA.
Demos:
Hazem Elmeleegy, Jaewoo Lee, El Kindi Rezig, Mourad Ouzzani, Ahmed Elmagarmid ” UMAP: A System for Usage-Based Schema Matching and Mapping” (demo), SIGMOD 2011, Athens, Greece, June 2011.
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jennifer Neville, Mourad Ouzzani, “GDR: A System for Guided Data Repair” (demo), SIGMOD 2010, pp. 1223-1226, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Workshops:
Mohamed Yakout, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Jennifer Neville, “Ranking for Data Repairs“, In 4th DBRank workshop, ICDE 2010, Long Beach, California, USA.
N. Talukder, M. Ouzzani, A. Elmagarmid, H. Elmeleegy, and M. Yakout. “Privometer: Privacy Protection in Social Networks“. Second International Workshop on Modeling, Managing and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN), in conjunction with ICDE’2010, Long Beach, CA, March 2010.
