Profile

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is the Executive Director of Qatar Computing Research Institute Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Acting Vice President for Research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University (US), and a former chief scientist at Hewlett-Packard HQ in Palo Alto, CA. Dr. Elmagarmid received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. In 2020, he was chosen to serve on the Washington Institute’s Council of Advisors and selected to be distinguished fellow. He is an IEEE Life Fellow, an ACM Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from President Reagan in 1988. He is the co-chair of the AI National Committee.