Biography :

Mourad Ouzzani is a Senior Scientist with the Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Foundation. Before that, he was a Research Associate Professor at Purdue University. His research interests lie in the fields of data management, data analytics, and service computing and how they enable discovery and innovation in science and engineering. More specifically, he is interested in issues related to data integration, data quality, spatio-temporal data management, and database systems for scientific data. He is the architect of several cyberinfrastructure platforms to support multidisciplinary research, including a web-based system to manage experiments and analysis workflows in high throughput ionomics, a hub for enabling data sharing and collaboration, a literature social network, visual data mining tools for network data in metabolomics, and a virtual community for global engineering. Mourad Ouzzani has been PI or CoPI in more than fifteen grant proposals funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health, QNRF, the US Department of Homeland Security, as well as other funding agencies. He received the Seeds of Success Award from Purdue University for being a CoPI in a $15M grant. He holds a PhD from Virginia Tech and a BSc and MSc from USTHB, Algiers, all in Computer Science.