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Dr Ahmed K Elmagarmid
Ahmed K Elmagarmid is the inaugural Executive Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute at Qatar Foundation. Before joining Qatar Foundation in 2010, he was founder and director of both the Cyber Center in Discovery Park and the Indiana Center for Database Systems at Purdue University. He was a full professor of computer science at Purdue, where he had been actively involved in teaching and research for 22 years. Early in his career he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator award from President Ronald Reagan. The University of Dayton and Ohio State University have both named him among their distinguished alumni. He is an IEEE fellow and an ACM distinguished scientist and is a member of Sigma Xi American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr Elmagarmid has chaired and served on several program committees and editorial boards. His expertise spans foundational and application-oriented database research.
Dr Elmagarmid served as a chief scientist in HP’s Office of Strategy and Technology. He has worked with and consulted for Telcordia Technology, Bellcore, IBM, CSC, Harris, D. H. Brown and Associates, MCC, Bell Northern Research, Molecular Design Labs, SOGEI (Italy), Sidra Medical and Research Center, and UniSql among others. Dr Elmagarmid is an accomplished and well-published scientist, authoring six books and more than 180 papers, and has several active grants from state and federal government agencies and the industry.
Dr Elmagarmid received his BS in computer science from the University of Dayton and his MS and PhD from Ohio State University. He has held faculty positions at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Padova, and Purdue University.
Dr Abdellatif Saoudi
Abdellatif Saoudi is the Managing Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute at Qatar Foundation. Prior to joining Qatar Foundation, Dr Saoudi served as Head Corporate Solutions in Qatar Petroleum where he managed a large-scale ICT projects portfolio as well as leading major initiatives related to web technologies, enterprise content Management (ECM) and GIS.
He also has worked as an IT expert for the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he played a key role in leading the strategic banking solutions.
Dr Saoudi served on the faculties of the Polytechnic Institute of Nantes and Nantes University. The author of several industrial and scientific papers, his research interests lie in internet computing, data analytics, and knowledge management.
In 2008, he received the GIS Special Achievement Award from (Environmental Systems Research Institute) (ESRI )in San Diego (California).
Dr Saoudi received his PhD in Computer Science from Nantes University (France) in 1997 and his MSc from INSA de Lyon (France).
In the News
Help map a crisis: Volunteers sift through typhoon tweets
14/11/2013
QCRI's MicroMappers used for Typhoon Haiyan
Supertyphoon Haiyan: How Technology Is Changing Disaster Response
14/11/2013
QCRI's MicroMappers helps to radically change how we respond to disasters like Supertyphoon Haiyan
Rescuers Sift Through Social-Media Noise to Direct Typhoon Response
10/11/2013
QCRI's MicroMappers software provides teams with data-driven map of what they should be doing and where
Upcoming Events
2014
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium 2014
03/03/2014 - 04/03/2014,
Tornado Tower, 5th floor, Doha, Qatar
QCRI and Boeing are organizers of the first annual Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium. Submissions are due January 24, 2014.
3rd International Conference on Metabolomics and Systems Biology
24/03/2014 - 26/03/2014,
San Antonio, Texas, USA
QCRI's Dr. Halima Bensmail, Computational Science and Engineering, will be a keynote speaker at this event.
20th SLA/AGC Annual Conference in Enhancing the Digital Knowledge Society's Information Needs
25/03/2014 - 27/03/2014,
Doha, Qatar
QCRI will present the ETHRAA initiative at this conference.
Press Releases
Global experts discuss cybercrime pandemic at Annual Research Conference
17/11/2013
The Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC ’13) will bring together distinguished researchers and experts to discuss the growing dependence on computing and networking technologies by the world’s economies, and the unprecedented security concerns and risk this has to a nation’s cyber infrastructure. For the first time at the annual conference, organised by Qatar Foundation Research and Development (QF R&D), cyber security as a large-scale research challenge will be addressed in-depth through discussions and debates on risks, emerging threats and opportunities.
QFI and QCRI launch mobile app to increase knowledge of Arabic
09/10/2013
In an effort to make Arabic more accessible to those unfamiliar with the language, Qatar Foundation International (QFI) and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) recently launched Madar Al-Huruf ...
QCRI’s summer internship programme comes to an end
18/09/2013
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) commemorated the end of a successful 2013 summer internship programme on Wednesday with a closing ceremony and speech from guest speaker Dr. Tarek El Fouly, from the College of Engineering at Qatar University.
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