Ihab Ilyas

Ihab Ilyas
Born (1973-05-13) May 13, 1973 (age 51)
Alexandria, Egypt
NationalityCanadian, Egyptian
Alma materPurdue University (PhD) Alexandria University (BSc, MSc)
Known forData science, Data cleaning, Data integration
AwardsACM Fellow, 2020; IEEE Fellow, 2022; C.C. Gotlieb Computer Award, 2024; Royal Society of Canada Fellow, 2024
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo, Apple Inc.
Websitehttps://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ilyas/

Ihab Francis Ilyas (born May 13, 1973) is a computer scientist who works in data science. He is currently a professor of computer science in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He also led the Knowledge Platform team at Apple Inc. Ihab is the holder of the Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning at the University of Waterloo.[1][2][3]

Ilyas co-founded Tamr Inc., a start-up focusing on large-scale data integration and cleaning, with Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker, a Turing Award winner. Ilyas was the CEO of Inductiv Inc., an artificial intelligence start-up that uses machine learning to automate the task of identifying and correcting errors in data, which he co-founded with Theodoros Rekatsinas at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Christopher Ré at Stanford University.[4] Inductiv was acquired by Apple Inc. in May 2020.[5][6]

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  2. ^ "UWaterloo adds research chair into data cleansing". IT World Canada. Retrieved 2017-09-01.
  3. ^ "Chairholder Profile | Ihab Ilyas | Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning". Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. May 20, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2021.
  4. ^ "Waterloo-based AI start-up Inductiv acquired by Apple". Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo. May 29, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  5. ^ "Apple Buys Machine-Learning Startup to Improve Data Used in Siri". Bloomberg. May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  6. ^ "Apple just bought another AI startup to help Siri catch up to rivals Amazon and Google". Business Insider. May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.