Curriculum vitae

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Positions

2019 to present
Concordia University, Montreal. Head, Concordia Data Systems Lab (CoDS). Tenured Associate Professor since June 2024; Assistant Professor July 2019 to May 2024. Directs the GEMS research program and the CoDS-GCS open-source organization.
2013 to 2019
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha. Research Scientist, Distributed Systems and Data Analytics Group. Technical lead on three joint MIT CSAIL–QCRI projects with Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden and Tim Berners-Lee, delivering E-Store, Data Civilizer and Solid as running systems.
2009 to 2013
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Postdoctoral Fellow. Large-scale string analytics.
2008 to 2009
International University in Germany, Bruchsal. Postdoctoral Fellow. Mobile data management and energy-efficient database systems.

2004 to 2008
PhD in Computer Science, Technological University Dublin, Ireland.
2000 to 2003
MS in Information Systems, Cairo University, Egypt.
1996 to 2000
BS in Information Systems, Cairo University, Egypt.

Approximately CAD 3M in competitive funding from federal and industry sources.

NSERC CREATE, “Sustainable Data Systems for Data Science.” Theme lead and co-investigator, 2024 to 2030.
NSERC Discovery Grant, “Systems and Algorithms for Integrating LLMs and GNNs into Data Science and Knowledge Graph Platforms.” PI, 2025 to 2030. Previously “Systems and Algorithms for Easy-to-use Federated Data Science,” 2020 to 2025.
NRC Canada, “Cybersecurity Framework for the Digitized Construction Industry.” Co-investigator, 2025 to 2028.
Concordia University Faculty Research Support Funds, PI, 2020 to 2027. MITACS partnerships with Qohash, National Bank of Canada and RBC Borealis AI, PI, 2022 to 2024.

English and Arabic (fluent); French (working proficiency).