Ashraf Aboulnaga
Associate Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
Dr. Ashraf Aboulnaga is a Associate Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Research Interest
Professor Aboulnaga's research is in the area of database management, with a current focus on databases in cloud computing environments, data integration on the web, and self-managing database systems. The goal of Professor Aboulnaga's research in the area of cloud computing is to enable effective, scalable, and reliable database management in cloud computing environments. Part of this research focuses on virtualization, in particular tuning database systems running on virtual machines and using virtual storage, and also making database systems reliable and elastically scalable by taking advantage of the capabilities of virtual machine technologies. Another part of this research focuses on optimizing scalable analytics environments based on Map-Reduce style systems such as Hadoop by, for example, improving job scheduling or enabling the reuse of intermediate results.
Publications
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Sean Tozer, Tim Brecht, and Ashraf Aboulnaga. Q-Cop: Avoiding Bad Query Mixes to Minimize Client Timeouts Under Heavy Loads. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010.
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Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu. Predicting Completion Times of Batch Query Workloads using Interaction-aware Models and Simulation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2011.
