Amr Awadallah
| Amr Awadallah | |
|---|---|
 Amr Awadallah during Cloudera Cares, DataKind Meetup on 7 May 2015 | |
| Born | 1 October 1970[1] |
| Residence | Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | Egyptian, American |
| Alma mater |
Cairo University (B.S) Cairo University (M.S) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Title | CTO of Cloudera Inc. |
| Parent(s) | Awadallah Sr. |
| Website | Amr A. Awadallah |
Amr Awadallah (born October 1, 1970) is an Egyptian-born American computer scientist, Silicon Valley entrepreneur known for running one of the very first organizations to use Apache Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence while at Yahoo! and co-founding Cloudera Inc., a Palo Alto-based company providing tools, services, and support around Apache Hadoop. Now, Amr serves as CTO at Cloudera Inc. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July, 2000.
Biography
Amr Awadallah is a Founder at Cloudera Inc serving as its Chief Technology Officer.[2] He received his BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007.[3] Before co-founding Cloudera in 2008, Amr was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners. Prior to joining Accel Partners, he served as Vice President of Product Intelligence Engineering at Yahoo!, and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for data analysis and business intelligence.[4] Amr joined Yahoo! after they acquired his first startup, VivaSmart, in July 2000.[5][6]
Major publications
- "The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter Multiplayer Matches" (PDF), Amr A. Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2006), Dubai/Sharjah, UAE, March 2006.
- "The vMatrix: Server Switching", Amr A. Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, IEEE 10th International Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE FTDCS 2004), Suzhou, China, May 2004.
- "The vMatrix: A Network of Virtual Machine Monitors for Dynamic Content Distribution", Amr A. Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2002), Boulder, Colorado, August 2002.
- "Analysis of a packet switch with memories running slower than the line-rate", Sundar Iyer, Amr A. Awadallah, and Nick McKeown, IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
- "The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter Multiplayer Matches", Amr A. Awadallah and Chetan Rai, IFIP High Performance Networking Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 1998.
Other Research
References
- ↑ "Amr Awadallah - Founder & CTO @ Cloudera - CrunchBase". CrunchBase. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Cloudera management team". Cloudera. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Amr Awadallah - LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Speaker: Amr Awadallah: Big Data Conference - Strata + Hadoop World". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ↑ "This Former Yahoo-er's Startup Is So Hot, Even the CIA Invested In It". Business Insider. Retrieved December 6, 2016.
- ↑ "Amr Awadallah - DataEDGE conference". UC Berkeley School of Information. Retrieved December 6, 2016.