Former Students and Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised

Talha Tahmid, 2025-2026.

Project: From Transport to Grounding: Designing MCP Connectors for Reliable SPARQL Querying by LLMs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.