Dr Ahmed Elmagarmid, executive director of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American Association for Advancing Science (AAAS).
Dr Elmagarmid was elected as one of nine members in the section on information, computing and communication.
Dr Elmagarmid is also a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, making him the only computing scientist in the Arab world to be a Fellow of these three distinguished international scientific societies, according to a statement.
Each year, AAAS - a leading general scientific society - recognises outstanding members for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications by naming them as Fellows.
Dr Elmagarmid joins a distinguished list of colleagues from the world’s leading universities, industries and research labs to whom the AAAS and its members look for guidance in innovation and education, and scientific leadership.
With the AAAS Fellow election, Dr Elmagarmid is cited for his “national and international leadership in computer science in both industry and academia, and seminal contributions to distributed and multimedia databases and data quality”.
For over four years since its inception, Dr Elmagarmid has served as the executive director of QCRI. Under his leadership, QCRI has achieved many milestones in a short span of time, including launching its first start-up, Tamr, a next-generation data curation company based in the US.
Dr Elmagarmid’s work in database management and database systems is well known and often cited in both academia and industry. Early in his career, he received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award from former US President Ronald Reagan and has been appointed to serve on several boards and committees in the technology industry. Dr Elmagarmid is a well-published scientist, having authored several books and more than 200 papers that have been published in
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Dr Ahmed Elmagarmid
