Dr. Sherif Sakr

Short Biography

Dr. Sherif Sakr is a Research Scientist in the Software Systems Research Group at National ICT Australia (NICTA), ATP lab, Sydney, Australia. He is also a Conjoint Lecturer in The School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at 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 degrees in Computer Science from the Information Systems department at the Faculty of Computers and Information in Cairo University, Egypt, in 2000 and 2003 respectively. In 2011, Sherif held a Visiting Researcher position at the eXtreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research Laboratories, Redmond, WA, USA.

Dr. Sakr's research interest is data and information management in general, particularly in areas of indexing techniques, query processing and optimization techniques, graph data management, social networks, data management in cloud computing. Dr Sakr has published more than 40 refereed research publications in international journals and conferences such as: Proceedings of the VLDB endowment (PVLDB), Journal of Computer, Systems and Science (JCSS), Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), Journal of Database Management (JDM), IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IEEE COMST), Scientometrics, International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), VLDB, SIGMOD, WWW, BPM, ER, ICWS, IEEE SCC, TPCTC, DASFAA, JCDL 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, WWW, IJWET and many other international conferences and journals. He is an editorial board member in the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET).

Sticky News

We are organizing The 3rd International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM'12) In Conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'12). Please submit your paper!

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December 2011 Our Paper “Application-Managed Database Replication on Virtualized Cloud Environments” has been accepted in the Data Management in the Cloud (DMC) Workshop in Conjunction with ICDE'12.

December 2011 Our Tutorial Proposal “Querying and Exchanging XML and RDF on the Web” has been accepted in the World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2012), Lyon, France.

November 2011 Our Paper “On Understanding the Economics and Elasticity Challenges of Deploying Business Applications on Public Cloud Infrastructure” has been accepted in Journal of Internet Services and Applications.

October 2011 Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop.

September 2011 Our Paper “A Decade of Database Conferences: A Look Inside The Program Committees” has been accepted in the Scientometrics Journal.

August 2011 Attending VLDB 2011 Conference at Seattle, USA.

July 2011 IBM developerWorks Article, “Investigate state-of-the-art XML compression techniques” [Article Link].

July 2011 Our book “Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications” is available [Book Link] [Amazon Link].

July 2011 Attending ICWS'11, IEEE SCC'11 , IEEE CLOUD'11 Conferences at Washington DC, USA.

July 2011 Our Demo “BPModelMasher: Manage Your Process Variants Effectively” has been accepted at the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011).

June 2011 Our Paper “Design by Selection: A Reuse-based Approach for Business Process Modeling” has been accepted in the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011).

June 2011 Attending Cloud Futures 2011 Workshop at Seattle, USA.

May 2011 Visiting Research Scientist at the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), Microsoft Research, Redmond, US.

May 2011 Our Paper “A Query Language for Analyzing Business Processes Execution” has been accepted in the 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2011).

April 2011 Our Paper “MyDeepWeb: An Integration Service for your OWN Deep Web Data” has been accepted in the WIP Track of The 8th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2011).

April 2011 Our Paper “CloudDB AutoAdmin: Towards a Truly Elastic Cloud-Based Data Store” has been accepted in the WIP Track of The 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011).

April 2011 We have organized The 2nd International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications (GDM 2011) in conjunction with ICDE'11. The workshop program and slides of the presentations are available here.

April 2011 Attending ICDE'11 Conference at Hannover, Germany.

April 2011 Visiting Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

April 2011 I have been invited to join the editorial board of the International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology (IJWET). Please submit your papers there ;-)

March 2011 Our Paper “A Survey of Large Scale Data Management Approaches in Cloud Environments” has been accepted in the journal of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.

March 2011 Our Paper “A Decade of Database Research Publications: A Look Inside” has been accepted in the Scientometrics Journal.

March 2011 Our Paper “Partial Process Models to Manage Business Process Variants” has been accepted in a special Issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management (IJBPIM).

March 2011 Our Demo “Liquid Benchmarks: Benchmarking-as-a-Service” has been accepted at JCDL'11 Conference.

Nov./Dec. 2010 USA Research Trip: Visiting Microsoft Research, Redmond - Cloudera - RAD Lab @ Berkeley .

September 2010 Attending VLDB'10 Conference at Singapore.

September 2010 Our Paper “Efficient and Adaptable Query Workload-Aware Management for RDF Data” has been accepted at WISE'10 Conference.

August 2010 Our Paper “Efficient Relational Techniques for Processing Graph Queries” has been accepted at JCST Journal.

August 2010 Off-site Leadership NICTA Training

July 2010 Our Paper “Liquid Benchmarks: Towards An Online Platform for Collaborative Assessment of Computer Science Research Results” has been accepted at TPC TC'10 Conference.

July 2010 Our Paper “An Efficient Features-Based Processing Technique for Supergraph Queries” has been accepted at IDEAS'10 Conference.

July 2010 Annual Vacation To Egypt (Home Sweet Home ;-).

June 2010 Our Paper “On Maintaining Consistency of Process Model Variants” has been accepted at rBPM'10 Workshop.

April 2010 Attending WWW'10 Conference at Raleigh, NC, USA.

April 2010 Attending DASFAA'10 Conference at Tsukuba, Japan.

February 2010 Call for Chapter Proposals: “Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications”, IDEA Group Publishing, Hershey, USA, 2010.

January 2010 Our Demo “A Framework for Querying Graph-Based Business Process Models” has been accepted at WWW'10 Conference.