- Sep 2018: Spoke at the Institute for Data Science at Carleton University about Graph systems and applications.
- Aug 2018: Presented two papers at VLDB 2018 in Brazil
- Jul 2018: Westlaw Edge, a project I contributed to at Thomson Reuter’s Cognitive Computing Center has been launched. The most advanced legal research platform on the planet!
- May 2018: Our paper “Experimental Analysis of Distributed Graph Systems” got accepted at VLDB 2018
- Jan 2018: Our paper “Distributed Evaluation of Subgraph Queries Using Worst-case Optimal and Low-Memory Dataflows” got accepted at VLDB 2018
- Jan 2018: Joined Thomson Reuters Innovation Lab
- Nov 2017: Chairing the Data Mining in Politics workshop co-located with ICDM
- Sep 2016: Presenting Thomson Reuters simulation for USA election at Strata
- Sep 2016: Joined Thomson Reuter’s Cognitive Computing Center
- May 2016: Our demo paper “Sapphire: Querying RDF Data Made Simple” got accepted at VLDB 2016
- April 2016: My paper “Techniques and Systems for Large Dynamic Graphs” got accepted at SIGMOD 2016 for the Ph.D. Symposium
- Feb 2015: My paper “Continuous Median Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks” got accepted in MDM 2015
- September 2014: Serving as an external reviewer for VLDB 2015, ICDE 2015 and as a PC member for GraphSM 2015.
- June 2014: Our paper “An Experimental Comparison of Pregel-like Graph Processing Systems” got accepted at VLDB 2014
- May 2014: I started my research internship at IBM Research Almaden in the bay area.
- Feb 2014: I have been invited to be in the review committee of the upcoming book, Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics and Healthcare.
- January 2014: The extended version of my paper WGB: Towards a Universal Graph Benchmark was accepted for publication in the WBDB2013 proceedings.
- October 2013: My book chapter proposal was accepted to be published in the upcoming book, Big Data Analytics in Bioinformatics and Healthcare.
- October 2013: My benchmark paper was accepted for presentation in The Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking
- June 2013: Attending SIGMOD 2013
- May 2013: I will spend this summer at IBM Software Laboratory at Markham, Ontario
- April 2013: Awarded the Fundamentals of University Teaching Certificate from University of Waterloo.
- April 2013: My Thesis project was awarded IBM CAS Fellowship
- Feb 2013: My paper “Cost-Based Quantile Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks” got accepted in MDM 2013.
- Jan 2013: Re-selected as the Head of Marketing for the PMI-CTT annual symposium.
- Jan 2013: Elected as the Vice-President of the Egyptian Student Association in North America (ESANA).
Khaled Ammar 