I am pursuing a master's degree in computer science at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Essam Mansour and a research assistant at the Concordia Data Systems (CoDS) lab. My research tackles creating data management, integration, and discovery systems for data lakes. I am currently working on KGLac, a system that captures metadata and semantics of datasets to construct a knowledge graph (GLac) interconnecting data items such as tables and columns and supports data discovery on top of it.
Before joining Concordia, I graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics with High Distinction.
I am keen on democratizing data and leveraing it to extract useful insights. For this reason, I am interested in building systems to manage big data useful for data integration and data preparation.
Before joining Concordia, I graduated from the American University of Beirut (AUB) with a major in computer science and a minor in mathematics with High Distinction.
I am keen on democratizing data and leveraing it to extract useful insights. For this reason, I am interested in building systems to manage big data useful for data integration and data preparation.
Publications
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A Demonstration of KGLac: A Data Discovery and Enrichment Platform for Data Science [Accepted] - VLDB'21
Ahmed Helal , Mossad Helali, Khaled Ammar, Essam Mansour
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Data Lakes Empowered by Knowledge Graph Technologies [ Abstract ] - SRC SIGMOD'21
Ahmed Helal
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Chi squared feature selection over Apache Spark [ Paper ] - IDEAS'19
Mohamed Nassar, Haidar Safa, Alaa AlMutawa, Ahmed Helal , Iskander Gaba