Mourad Ouzzani is a Principal Scientist with the Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Before joining QCRI, he was a research associate professor at Purdue University. Since joining in 2011, Mourad has played a key role in establishing the data analytics group within QCRI. Mourad's research interests lie in the fields of data management and analytics with a focus on data integration and data cleaning. He is the project lead of Rayyan, the systematic reviews web and mobile app, that now serves more than 30k users worldwide. His work has led to numerous publications in top tier venues including PVLDB, TKDE, SIGMOD, and ICDE. Mourad has been PI or CoPI in more than 15 grant proposals funded by NSF, NIH, DHS, as well as other funding agencies. Mourad received two Seeds of Success Awards from Purdue University. He hold a PhD from Virginia Tech, and a BSc and MSc from USTHB, Algiers, all in computer science.
Qatar Computing Research Institute
June 2015 - PresentQatar Computing Research Institute
May 2011 - May 2015Cyber Center, Purdue University
July 2010 - May 2011Cyber Center, Purdue University
March 2006 - June 2010Computer Science, Purdue University
June 2004 - March 2006Virginia Tech; Virginia, USA
2004USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
1995USTHB, Algiers, Algeria
1991A Configuration-Free Error Detection System; Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
2019Distributed representations of tuples for entity resolution; Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 11 (11), 1454-1467
2018A Robust Disguised Missing Values Detector; Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
2018The Data Civilizer System; Proceedings of the 7th biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
2017Rayyan—a web and mobile app for systematic reviews; Systematic reviews 5 (1), 210
2016a commodity data cleaning system; Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
2013