Ihab Ilyas
Ihab Francis Ilyas is a computer scientist and a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo.[1][2]
Ihab Ilyas | |
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| Born | May 13, 1973 |
| Nationality | Canadian, Egyptian |
| Alma mater | Purdue University (PhD) Alexandria University (BSc, MSc) |
| Employer(s) | University of Waterloo , Apple Inc. |
| Known for | Data science, Data cleaning, Data integration |
Biography
changeIlyas was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at Alexandria University in 1995 and 1999, and earned his PhD at Purdue University in 2004. Ilyas held a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship[3] at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science from 2013 to 2016 and he received the Google Faculty Award in 2014.[4]
He is also the leader of the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc.[5] He co-founded Tamr Inc. and Inductiv Inc., both of which focus on large-scale data integration and cleaning. Apple acquired Inductiv in 2020.[6] Ilyas is known for his research on database systems and data science, including data quality, data cleaning, managing uncertain data, and rank-aware query processing. He has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the field, including being named an ACM Fellow in 2020,[7][8] an IEEE Fellow in 2022,[9] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2024.[10] In 2024, he also received the 2024 C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award from IEEE Canada in recognition of his contributions to building large-scale machine learning systems for data integration, data cleaning and knowledge construction.[11]
References
change- ↑ "UWaterloo adds research chair into data cleansing". IT World Canada. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
- ↑ "Chairholder Profile | Ihab Ilyas | Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. May 20, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ↑ "David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowships in Computer Science | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo". web.archive.org. 2018-06-12. Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
- ↑ "Google Faculty Research Awards, August 2014" (PDF). Retrieved January 26, 2021.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Waterloo-based AI start-up Inductiv acquired by Apple". Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo. May 29, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
- ↑ "Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor Ihab Ilyas named ACM Fellow". David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ↑ "Prof. Ihab F. Ilyas | ACM Fellows | Award Winners". Association for Computing Machinery. January 13, 2021. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
- ↑ "Professor Ihab Ilyas named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers". Cheriton School of Computer Science. 2021-11-25. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
- ↑ "Professor Ihab Ilyas named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada | Cheriton School of Computer Science". cs.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ↑ "Ihab Ilyas receives C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award for advancing computer science | Cheriton School of Computer Science". cs.uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
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