Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is the Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, USA. He previously served as Chief Scientist at Hewlett-Packard’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Dr. Elmagarmid has contributed significantly to Qatar’s research and knowledge ecosystem, including the founding of Sidra Medicine and Qatar National Library, and the establishment of the Qatar Genome Program. He has also served on numerous boards in Qatar and the United States.

As an accomplished computer scientist, he leads an active research programme focused on data wrangling. He has authored six books and more than 180 research papers and has chaired the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), ACM SIGMOD, and other international conferences.

He is a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award and an IEEE Life Fellow, ACM Fellow, and AAAS Fellow. In 1988, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Ronald Reagan. In 2020, he joined the Washington Institute’s Council of Advisors and was named a Distinguished Fellow. He also serves as Co-Chair of the AI National Committee.

Dr. Elmagarmid has been recognised as a Distinguished Alumnus of The Ohio State University and the University of Dayton.