Ihab Ilyas

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]

Ihab Ilyas
portrait of Professor Ihab Ilyas taken at the Davis Centre at the University of Waterloo
Born (1973-05-13) May 13, 1973
NationalityCanadian, Egyptian
CitizenshipCanadian, Egyptian
Alma materPurdue University (PhD)

Alexandria University (MSc)

Alexandria University (BSc)
Known forData science, Data quality

Ilyas co-founded Tamr Inc., a start-up focusing on large-scale data integration and cleaning, with Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, a Turing Award winner. Ilyas was the CEO of Inductiv Inc., an artificial intelligence start-up that uses machine learning to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data, which he co-founded with Theodoros Rekatsinas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher Ré at Stanford University.[3] Inductiv was acquired by Apple Inc. in May 2020.[4][5]

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[6] from 2013–16, and was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist[7] 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[8] 2016 and the Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Management (SIGMOD)[9] in 2017.

Ilyas is best known for the development of database systems and data science, with emphasis on data quality, data cleaning, managing uncertain data, machine learning for data curation, and rank-aware query processing.

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. "Waterloo-based AI start-up Inductiv acquired by Apple". Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo. May 29, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  4. "Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri". Bloomberg. May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  5. "Apple just bought another AI startup to help Siri catch up to rivals Amazon and Google". Business Insider. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  6. "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.
  7. "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.
  8. "Board of Trustees". www.vldb.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  9. "About SIGMOD – SIGMOD Website". sigmod.org. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
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