Doha: Dr Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive Director, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, has been inducted as a Fellow of American Association for Advancing Science (AAAS).
Dr Elmagarmid was elected one of nine members to the section on information, computing and communication.
He is also a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), giving him recognition of being the only computing scientist in the Arab world who is a Fellow of three international scientific societies. AAAS is the world’s largest and most prestigious general scientific society and publisher of journal Science. With AAAS Fellow election, Dr Elmagarmid is cited for his “national and international leadership in computer science in industry and academia, and seminal contributions to distributed and multimedia databases and data quality”.
His work in database management and systems is well known and often cited in academia and industry. He has also received National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award from former US president Ronald Reagan, and has been appointed to serve on several boards and committees in the technology industry.
Dr Elmagarmid has authored several books and over 200 papers published in prestigious venues. AAAS formally recognised Dr Elmagarmid and all 2014 Fellows at its annual Awards Banquet in San Jose, California.
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