Former Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Ph.D. Students

• Ghadeer Abuoda, May 2021. (Ph.D. from Hamad Bin Khalifa University, co-supervised by Ting Yu )
  Thesis: Advanced Data Processing for Better Machine Learning on Graphs.
  First Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Research Assistants

• Aisha Mohamed, 2018-2020.
  First Employment: Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
• Eslam Hussein, 2016-2018.
  First Employment: Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech.

University of Waterloo

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Rui Liu, 2010-2013. (co-supervised with Kenneth Salem)
  First Employment: Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Mountain View, California.
• Iman Elghandour, 2011-2012.
  First Employment: Assistant Professor at Alexandria University, Egypt.

Ph.D. Students

• Kareem El Gebaly, May 2018. (co-supervised with Jimmy Lin and Lukasz Golab)
  Thesis: Analytics for Everyone.
  First Employment: Software Engineer at the Huawei Canada Research Centre, Toronto.
• Ahmed El-Roby, April 2018.
  Thesis: Web Data Integration for Non-Expert Users.
  First Employment: Assistant Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa.
• Umar Farooq Minhas, December 2012.
  Thesis: Scalable and Highly Available Database Systems in the Cloud.
  First Employment: Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California.
• Mumtaz Ahmad, November 2012.
  Thesis: Query Interactions in Database Systems.
  First Employment: Software Developer at Auvik Networks, Waterloo.
• Iman Elghandour, October 2010.
  Thesis: Automatic Physical Design for XML Databases.
  First Employment: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo.

Master's (M.Math.) Students

• Huangdong Meng, January 2014.
  Thesis: High Availability for Database Systems in Geographically Distributed Cloud Computing Environments.
  First Employment: Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Toronto.
• Jingen Xiang, September 2013.
  Thesis: Scalable Scientific Computing Algorithms Using MapReduce.
  First Employment: Software Developer at SAP, Waterloo.
• Taha Rafiq, May 2013.
  Thesis: Elasca: Workload-Aware Elastic Scalability for Partition Based Database Systems.
  First Employment: Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Toronto.
• Mostafa Ead, December 2012.
  Thesis: PStorM: Profile Storage and Matching for Feedback-Based Tuning of MapReduce Jobs.
  First Employment: Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Vancouver.
• Hatem Mahmoud, June 2010.
  Thesis: Schema Clustering and Retrieval for Multi-domain Pay-As-You-Go Data Integration Systems.
  First Employment: Ph.D. student at the University of California - Santa Barbara.
• Sean Tozer, August 2009. (co-supervised with Tim Brecht)
  Thesis: Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Unsuccessful Client Requests Under Heavy Loads.
  First Employment: Senior Developer at the Centre for Phenogenomics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
• Ahmed Ataullah, May 2008. (co-supervised with Frank Tompa)
  Thesis: A Framework for Records Management in Relational Database Systems.
  First Employment: Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo.
• Nickolay Tchervenski, February 2008.
  Essay: An Evaluation of Storage Load Balancing Alternatives for Database Systems.
  First Employment: Software Developer at the IBM Toronto Laboratory.
• Umar Farooq Minhas, December 2007.
  Thesis: A Performance Evaluation of Database Systems on Virtual Machines.
  First Employment: Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo.
• Kareem El Gebaly, August 2007.
  Thesis: Robustness in Automatic Physical Database Design.
  First Employment: Software Developer at Ericsson Inc., Egypt.

Undergraduate Interns and Co-op Students

• Fábio Albuquerque (Mitacs Globalink intern), Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013.
• Aniruddha Gangopadhyay (Intern), Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), 2012.
• Sean Robertson (Co-op student, NSERC USRA), University of Waterloo, 2011.
• Jonathan Ng (Co-op student, NSERC USRA, Undergraduate Research Assistant), University of Waterloo, 2011.
• Ziyu Wang (Co-op student, NSERC USRA), University of Waterloo, 2008.
• Zi Ye Zhang (Co-op student, NSERC USRA, Undergraduate Research Assistant), University of Waterloo, 2008.
• Harikrishna Bikmal (Intern), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2008.
• Jitendra Yadav (Intern), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2007.
• Hidayath Ansari (Intern), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2006.
• Mayank Singhal (Intern), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2006.
• Daniel Wong (Co-op student), University of Waterloo, 2006.
• Daniel Brotherston (Co-op student), University of Waterloo, 2006.