Prof. Ihab Francis Ilyas

Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow

Research Area : Probabilistic and Uncertain Data Management; Machine Learning for Data Quality and Enrichment; Big Data; and Information Extraction

Profile: Ihab Ilyas is a professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science and the NSERC-Thomson Reuters Research Chair on data quality at the University of Waterloo. He is currently on leave at Apple to lead the Apple Knowledge Graph Platform team. His main research focuses on the areas of Data Science and data management, with special interest in data quality and integration, managing uncertain data, machine learning for data curation, and information extraction. Ihab is a co-founder of Tamr, a startup focusing on large-scale data integration, and the co-founder of inductiv (acquired by Apple), a Waterloo-based startup on using AI for structured data cleaning. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, a recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award, a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, and a Google Faculty Award. Ihab was an elected member of the VLDB Endowment board of trustees (2016-2021), elected SIGMOD vice chair (2016-2021), an associate editor of the ACM Transactions of Database Systems (2014-2020), and an associate editor of Foundations of Database Systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, West Lafayette.