Ihab Ilyas (on leave)

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 holds a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, West Lafayette.

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 a recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award, a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship, an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award, and a Google Faculty Award. Ihab is 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.