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Biography
Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid is the founding Executive Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI); the Acting Vice President for Research of Hamad Bin Khalifa University; an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (US); and a former chief scientist at Hewlett-Packard HQ in Palo Alto, CA.
He is an accomplished and well-published scientist, authoring six books and more than 180 papers, and has directed several well-funded research programs. Dr. Elmagarmid has also been granted eight patents in the database field from USPTO and the EU patent office and developed several software systems that have since become startups. In 2019, Dr. Elmagarmid received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. In 2020, he was chosen to serve on the Washington Institute’s Council of Advisors and selected to be distinguished fellow.
Dr. Elmagarmid is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) Award from President Reagan and is an IEEE, ACM, and AAAS Fellow. The University of Dayton and The Ohio State University have both named him among their distinguished alumni. Dr. Elmagarmid received his B.S. in computer science from the University of Dayton (1977) and his M.S. (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) from The Ohio State University.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Computer Science, The Ohio State University
Master, Computer Science, The Ohio State University
Bachelor, Computer Science, University of Dayton
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Projects
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QCRI-CORE-000003: Data Discovery using LLMs from structure data
Eltabakh, M. A. Y. (Lead Principal Investigator), Ouzzani, M. (Principal Investigator) & Elmagarmid, A. K. (Principal Investigator)
1/07/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Basic Research
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A pragmatic perspective on AI transparency at workplace
Al-Sulaiti, G., Sadeghi, M. A., Chauhan, L., Lucas, J. K., Chawla, S. & Elmagarmid, A. K., 30 Jan 2023, In: AI and Ethics. p. 189-200 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cross Modal Data Discovery over Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes
Eltabakh, M. Y., Elmagarmid, A. K., Kunjir, M. & Ahmad, M. S., Jul 2023, In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 16, 11, p. 3377-3390 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An AI-enabled future for Qatar and the region
Aboulnaga, A., Chawla, S., Elmagarmid, A., Al-Mannai, M. & Al-Sayed, H., Apr 2021, In: Communications of the ACM. 64, 4, p. 59-61 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Building a preeminent research lab in the Arab region
Elmagarmid, A. & Saoudi, A., Apr 2021, In: Communications of the ACM. 64, 4, p. 50-53 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Horizon: Scalable dependency-driven data cleaning
Rezig, E. K., Ouzzani, M., Aref, W. G., Elmagarmid, A. K., Mahmood, A. R. & Stonebraker, M., 2021, In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 14, 11, p. 2546-2554 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
20 Citations (Scopus)