Welcome

I am a Senior Research Software Engineer at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU). My research interests include database systems, large-scale data analytics, Web data management, parallel/distributed systems, and machine learning, with focus on:

• data cleaning,
• distributed transaction processing,
• SPARQL query processing over decentralized graphs,
• data integration in life sciences and social applications, and
• pattern recognition and motif extraction in long sequences.

Recent and Current 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:

• VLDB 2018
• VLDB 2017
• SIGMOD 2016
• ICDE 2016

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 Cloud Computing (TCCSI)
• IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD)