Cheriton School of Computer Science professor Ihab Ilyas has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to data integration, data cleaning and rank-aware query processing.
IEEE Fellowships are a prestigious professional recognition and an important career achievement. A Fellow is the highest grade of IEEE membership and it is conferred to those with an outstanding record of accomplishments.
Ilyas’s
many
accomplishments
include
successful
entrepreneurial
pursuits.
He
co-founded
two
companies
based
on
his
research: Inductiv,
a
Waterloo-based
start-up,
now
part
of
Apple
Inc.,
that
uses
AI
for
structured
data
cleaning; and Tamr,
a
start-up
focusing
on
large-scale
data
integration
and
cleaning.
Ilyas’s
contributions
also
include
serving
as
an
elected
member
of
the
board
of
trustees
of
the
Very
Large
Data
Bases
Endowment
in
2016
and
as
the
vice-chair
of
the
ACM
Special
Interest
Group
on
Data
Management
(SIGMOD)
in
2017.
Read more in the feature article on the computer science news site.