Welcome
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer-Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, and the head of the Concordia Data Systems (CoDS) lab. My research interests are in the broad areas of parallel/distributed systems, data management, knowledge graphs, and graph neural netwrok for developing systems for federated data science and big data analytics.
Note: I do not have openings for PhD or Master students.
PhD Students
- Hussein Abdallah
- Mossad Helali
- Reham Omar
Master Students
- Ahmed Helal
- Farbod Farhour (with Emad Shihab)
Current Research projects at CoDS:
- A Data Discovery Platform for Data Science
- A Natural Language Platform for Querying Knowledge Graphs
- A Data Security and Privacy Platform Powered by Knowledge Graph Technologies
- Data Science Versioning Control with Explanation and Data Bias Detection Methods
Previous Research Projects
- The Data Civilizer System
- Managing Linked Data at Scale: Querying, Integrating, and Sharing
- Elastic in-memory OLTP Systems
- Large-scale Analytics on Strings
Academic Service
A Program Committee member of:
I also regularly review for a number of international journals including:
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
- The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCCSI)
- IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)