Professor of Computer Science
Joined department in 1999
Education:
BSc, Computer Science
Alexandria University, Egypt (1983)
MSc, Computer Science
Alexandria University, Egypt (1986)
PhD, Computer Science
University of Maryland at College Park (1993)
Walid G. Aref is a professor of computer science at Purdue. His research interests are in extending
the functionality of database systems in support of emerging applications, e.g., spatial,
spatio-temporal, multimedia, biological, and sensor databases. He is also interested in query
processing, indexing, data mining, and geographic information systems (GIS). Professor Aref's
research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health,
Purdue Research Foundation, CERIAS, Panasonic, and Microsoft Corp. In 2001, he received the CAREER
Award from the National Science Foundation and in 2004, he received a Purdue University Faculty
Scholar award. Professor Aref is a member of Purdue's Discovery Park Bindley Bioscience and Cyber
Centers. He is on the editorial board of the VLDB Journal, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member
of the ACM. He is the vice chair of the newly formed ACM Special Interest Group on Spatial
Information (SIGSPATIAL).
Selected Publications
M.Y. Eltabakh, M. Ouzzani, and W.G. Aref, "bdbms -- A Database Management System for Biological
Data", 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 7-10,
2007, Asilomar, California, USA.
Ihab F. Ilyas, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Hicham G. Elmongui, Rahul Shah, and Jeffrey Scott
Vitter, "Adaptive Rank-aware Query Optimization in Relational Databases", ACM Transactions on
Database Systems (TODS), Volume 31, Issue 4, pp 1257--1304, December 2006.
X. Xiong, W. G. Aref, "R-trees with Update Memos", IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering, Atlanta, GA, April 2006.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Barry Wanner, Walid Aref, Daisuke Kihara, Michael Gribskov, and Xiang Zhang, Development of the
www.ecoli-community.org Information Resource, National Institutes of Health, 6/1/2006-5/31/2009.
Karthik Ramani, Sunil K. Prabhakar, and Christoph M. Hoffmann, Exploratory Research in Database
Systems Support for Product Lifecycle Management, CERIAS, 12/1/2006-12/31/2008.
Walid Aref, Microsoft Voluntary Support, Microsoft Corporation, 2/1/2008.
Walid Aref, The Purdue Biosamples PLM-Hub: Development of a Web Community Resource for Product
Lifecyle Management of Life Science Products, Purdue University, 11/1/2007-6/30/2008.
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