Ihab Ilyas
Ihab Francis Ilyas (born May 13, 1973) is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab is the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.
Ihab Ilyas | |
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| Born | May 13, 1973 |
| Nationality | Canadian, Egyptian |
| Alma mater | Purdue University (PhD) Alexandria University (BSc, MSc) |
| Known for | Data science, Data cleaning, Data integration |
| Awards | ACM Fellow, 2020; IEEE Fellow, 2022 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo, Apple Inc. |
| Website | https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ilyas/ |
Ilyas co-founded Tamr Inc., a start-up focusing on large-scale data integration and cleaning, with Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, a Turing Award winner. Ilyas was the CEO of Inductiv Inc., an artificial intelligence start-up that uses machine learning to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data, which he co-founded with Theodoros Rekatsinas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher Ré at Stanford University. Inductiv was acquired by Apple Inc. in May 2020.