Dr. Sherif Sakr

Short Biography

Dr. Sherif Sakr is a Senior Research Associate / Lecturer in the Service Oriented Computing Group (SOC) , The School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) , University of New South Wales (UNSW) and an Adjunct Lecturer with the Department of Computing in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie University . He received his PhD degree in computer science from Konstanz University, Germany in 2007. He received his BSc and MSc degree in computer science from information systems department, the Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University, Egypt, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Prior to taking up the current position, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at National ICT Australia (NICTA), NRL lab.



His research interest is data and information management in general, particularly in areas of indexing techniques, query processing and optimization techniques, graph data management, social netowrks, data management in cloud computing. His work has been published in international journals and conferences such as: Proceedings of the VLDB endowment (PVLDB), Journal of Database Management (JDM), International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Journal of Computer, Systems and Science (JCSS), VLDB, SIGMOD, WWW, DASFAA, and DEXA. One of his papers has awarded the Outstanding Paper Excellence Award 2009 of Emerald Literati Network. Dr. Sakr is a constant reviewer for IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSC, DKE, IJWET and many other internationl conferences and journals.