Ihab Ilyas

Ihab Ilyas
Born (1973-05-13) May 13, 1973
Nationality Canadian; Egyptian
Citizenship Canadian, Egyptian
Alma mater

Purdue University (PhD) Alexandria University (MSc)

Alexandria University (BSc)
Known for Data science, Data quality

Ihab Francis Ilyas (born May 13, 1973) is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he is the first holder of the Thomson Reuters-funded Research Chair in Data Cleaning from Theory to Practice.[1][2]

He cofounded Tamr Inc., a startup focusing on large-scale data integration and cleaning, with Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, a Turing Award winner.

Career

Ilyas was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt. After completing bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Alexandria University in 1995 and 1999, respectively, he earned a PhD at Purdue University in 2004 under the supervision of Walid Aref and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid.

After doctoral studies, Ilyas accepted a position as a tenure-track professor in computer science at the University of Waterloo. He held a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship[3] from 2013–16, and was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist[4] in 2014. He received Google Faculty Award in 2014 and Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2009. He was elected as a member of Board of Trustees of the Very Large Data Bases Endowment[5] 2016 and the Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Management (SIGMOD)[6] in 2017.

Ilyas is best known for development of database systems, with emphasis on data quality, data cleaning, managing uncertain data, rank-aware query processing, and information extraction.

References

  1. ↑ "Thomson Reuters and University of Waterloo to fuel innovation in data science, finance education | Waterloo News". Waterloo News. 2016-09-28. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  2. ↑ "UWaterloo adds research chair into data cleansing". IT World Canada. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  3. ↑ "David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowships in Computer Science | Cheriton School of Computer Science". Cheriton School of Computer Science. 2017-02-10. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  4. ↑ "ACM's Distinguished Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators Cited for Global Reach, Real-World Impact Association for Computing Machinery". www.acm.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  5. ↑ "Board of Trustees". www.vldb.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  6. ↑ "About SIGMOD – SIGMOD Website". sigmod.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
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