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Qatar
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
72
Citations
44970
World Ranking
1631
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Qatar Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to database management systems.
  • 2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to transaction management, data integration and quality
  • 2009 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is affiliated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Qatar. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Management Science and Operations Research, Information Systems, Safety Research, and Computer Science Applications.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Data Quality and Management
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Topic Modeling

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid has coauthored several papers frequently collaborating with:

  • Sanjay Chawla
  • Mohamed Y. Eltabakh
  • Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad
  • Mourad Ouzzani
  • Ji Lucas

Their recent publications include:

  • "Horizon", 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "A pragmatic perspective on AI transparency at workplace", 2023, AI and Ethics
  • "Cross Modal Data Discovery over Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes", 2023, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform", 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "An AI-enabled future for Qatar and the region", 2021, Communications of the ACM

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Communications of the ACM
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • AI and Ethics

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid has received several professional recognitions including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014
  • ACM Fellow in 2012 for contributions to database management systems
  • IEEE Fellow in 2010 for contributions to transaction management, data integration and quality
  • ACM Distinguished Member in 2009

Best Publications

  • Rayyan-a web and mobile app for systematic reviews.

    Mourad Ouzzani;Hossam Hammady;Zbys Fedorowicz;Ahmed Elmagarmid

  • Duplicate Record Detection: A Survey

    A.K. Elmagarmid;P.G. Ipeirotis;V.S. Verykios

  • Database transaction models for advanced applications

    Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

  • Automatic image segmentation by integrating color-edge extraction and seeded region growing

    Jianping Fan;D.K.Y. Yau;A.K. Elmagarmid;W.G. Aref

  • Composing Web services on the Semantic Web

    Brahim Medjahed;Athman Bouguettaya;Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

  • Association rule hiding

    V.S. Verykios;A.K. Elmagarmid;E. Bertino;Y. Saygin

  • Client-server computing in mobile environments

    Jin Jing;Abdelsalam Sumi Helal;Ahmed Elmagarmid

  • Business-to-business interactions: issues and enabling technologies

    B. Medjahed;B. Benatallah;A. Bouguettaya;A. H. H. Ngu

  • Disclosure limitation of sensitive rules

    M. Atallah;E. Bertino;A. Elmagarmid;M. Ibrahim

  • Supporting top- k join queries in relational databases

    Ihab F. Ilyas;Walid G. Aref;Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

  • TAILOR: a record linkage toolbox

    M.G. Elfeky;V.S. Verykios;A.K. Elmagarmid

  • Hiding Association Rules by Using Confidence and Support

    Elena Dasseni;Vassilios S. Verykios;Ahmed K. Elmagarmid;Elisa Bertino

  • A multidatabase transaction model for InterBase

    Ahmed K. Elmagarmid;Yungho Leu;Witold Litwin;Marek Rusinkiewicz

  • NADEEF: a commodity data cleaning system

    Michele Dallachiesa;Amr Ebaid;Ahmed Eldawy;Ahmed Elmagarmid

  • Bit-sequences: an adaptive cache invalidation method in mobile client/server environments

    Jin Jing;Ahmed Elmagarmid;Abdelsalam Sumi Helal;Rafael Alonso

  • Periodicity detection in time series databases

    M.G. Elfeky;W.G. Aref;A.K. Elmagarmid

  • Quasi serializability: a correctness criterion for global concurrency control in InterBase

    W. Du;A. Elmagarmid

  • Management of heterogeneous and autonomous database systems

    Ahmed Elmagarmid;Marek Rusinkiewicz;Amit Sheth

  • Sleep Quality Prediction From Wearable Data Using Deep Learning

    Aarti Sathyanarayana;Shafiq Joty;Luis Fernandez-Luque;Ferda Ofli

  • Privacy-preserving data integration and sharing

    Chris Clifton;Murat Kantarcioǧlu;AnHai Doan;Gunther Schadow

  • Privacy preserving association rule mining

    Y. Saygin;V.S. Verykios;A.K. Elmagarmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Walid G. Aref
Walid G. Aref Purdue University West Lafayette
Mourad Ouzzani
Mourad Ouzzani Qatar Computing Research Institute
Ihab F. Ilyas
Ihab F. Ilyas University of Waterloo
Jianping Fan
Jianping Fan University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Xingquan Zhu
Xingquan Zhu Florida Atlantic University
Nan Tang
Nan Tang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Athman Bouguettaya
Athman Bouguettaya University of Sydney
Elisa Bertino
Elisa Bertino Purdue University West Lafayette
Vassilios S. Verykios
Vassilios S. Verykios Hellenic Open University
Boualem Benatallah
Boualem Benatallah Dublin City University

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