Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Professor of Computer Science
Director of the Cyber Center

Joined department in 1988

Education:
BS, Computer Science
University of Dayton (1977)
MS, Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University (1981)
PhD, Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University (1985)

Professor Elmagarmid is the director of the Indiana Center for Database Systems and the Indiana Telemedicine Incubator. He received a Presidential Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation, and distinguished alumni awards from Ohio State University and the University of Dayton in 1993 and 1995, respectively. Professor Elmagarmid is the editor-in-chief of Distributed and Parallel Databases: An International Journal, editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Sciences Journal, Journal of Communication Systems, and editor of the book series on Advances in Database Systems. He has chaired and served on several program committees and served on several editorial boards.

Professor Elmagarmid's research interests focus on applications of database technology to telemedicine, digital government, and electric power management. He has done work in video databases, data quality and confidentiality, and multidatabase systems. He has over 10 active grants from state and federal government agencies as well as several grants from industry.

Professor Elmagarmid serves as an industry consultant in the areas of database systems. He has consulted with Telcordia Technology, Bellcore, IBM, CSC, Harris, D. H. Brown and Associates, MCC, Bell Northern Research, Molecular Design Labs, and UniSql to name a few. He is the owner of a recent patent on workflow database technology.

Selected Publications
M. A. Hammad, M. J. Franklin, W. G. Aref, and A. K. Elmagarmid, "Scheduling for Shared Window Joins Over Data Streams", Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2003), pp. 297-308, 2003.
I. F. Ilyas, W. G. Aref, and A. K. Elmagarmid, "Supporting Top-k Join Quereis in Relational Databases", Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2003), pp. 754-765, Berlin, Germany.
E. Bertino, T. Catarci, A. K. Elmagarmid, and M-S, "Hacid: Quality of Service Specification in Video Databases", IEEE Multimedia, Volume 10, No. 4, pp. 71-81, October/December 2003.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, The "Hestia" Project: Supporting Climate Science, Policy and Planning at Pureue, The Showalter Trust, 7/1/2007-6/30/2008.
Christopher Clifton and Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, ITR-(ASE+NHS)-(dmc+int): Privacy-Preserving Data Integration and Sharing, National Science Foundation, 9/15/2004-8/31/2008.
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