Director of the Cyber Center
Joined department in 1988
University of Dayton (1977)
The Ohio State University (1981)
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.

