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O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Ihab Ilyas

Ihab Ilyas
Professor, Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Website | @ihabilyas

Ihab Ilyas is a professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where his research focuses on the areas of big data and database systems, with special interest in data quality and integration, managing uncertain data, rank-aware query processing, and information extraction. Ihab is also a cofounder of Tamr, a startup focusing on large-scale data integration and cleaning. He’s a recipient of the Ontario Early Researcher Award (2009), a Cheriton faculty fellowship (2013), an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Award (2014), and a Google Faculty Award (2014), and he’s an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Ihab is an elected member of the VLDB Endowment board of trustees and an associate editor of ACM Transactions of Database Systems (TODS). He holds a PhD in computer science from Purdue University, West Lafayette.

Sessions

14:5515:35 Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Data Science, Machine Learning & AI
Location: Capital Suite 14
Ihab Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
Average rating: ****.
(4.71, 7 ratings)
Last year, Ihab Ilyas covered two primary challenges in applying machine learning to data curation: entity consolidation and using probabilistic inference to suggest data repair for identified errors and anomalies. This year, he explores these limitations in greater detail and explains why data unification projects quickly require human-guided machine learning and a probabilistic model. Read more.