Bio [Curriculum Vitae]
Dr. Sharaf is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. He was the recipient of the Taulbee Award for Excellence in Computer Science in 2002 and a two-time winner of the Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship in 2003 and 2004. In 2008, he was awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI). Dr. Sharaf's research interests lie in the general area of Data Management Systems with a focus on developing user-centric data processing techniques in data stream management systems, sensor data processing, mobile and pervasive data management, data warehousing, and Web databases. Dr. Sharaf has served on several program committees including ACM GIS'08, IEEE ICDCS'09, MDM'10 and IEEE ICDE'10. [Curriculum Vitae]