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]

Selected Publications   [Full List]   [DBLP Record]

  • [ACM SIGMOD'09] Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications
  • [IEEE ICDE'09] Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions
  • [MDM'09] SLA-Aware Adaptive On-Demand Data Broadcasting in Wireless Environments
  • [ACM TODS'08] Algorithms and Metrics for Processing Multiple Heterogeneous Continuous Queries
  • [VLDB'08] Tutorial: Scheduling Continuous Queries in Data Stream Management Systems
  • [VLDB'08] Dynamic Partitioning of the Cache Hierarchy in Shared Data Centers
  • [VLDB'06] Efficient Scheduling of Heterogeneous Continuous Queries
  • [VLDBJ'04] Balancing Energy Efficiency and Quality of Aggregate Data in Sensor Networks
  • [ACM MONET'04] On-Demand Data Broadcasting for Mobile Decision Making
  • [ACM CIKM'02] Semantic-based Delivery of OLAP Summary Tables in Wireless Environments

News

  • Feb. 2009: Our paper, Optimizing I/O-Intensive Transactions in Highly Interactive Applications, has been accepted to SIGMOD 2009 (acceptance rate = 16%).
  • Feb. 2009: Our paper, SLA-Aware Adaptive On-Demand Data Broadcasting in Wireless Environments, has been accepted to MDM 2009.
  • Jan. 2009: I am serving as the demo track co-chair of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'10).
  • Dec. 2008:I am serving on the Program Committee of the IEEE ICDE'10 Conf.
  • Dec. 2008:I am serving on the Program Committee of the MobiDE'09 Workshop.
  • Nov. 2008:I am serving on the Program Committee of the SeNTIE'09 Workshop.
  • Sept. 2008: Our paper, Adaptive Scheduling of Web Transactions, has been accepted to ICDE 2009 (acceptance rate = 16.6%)
  • Aug. 2008: I am giving a tutorial on Scheduling Continuous Queries in Data Stream Management Systems at VLDB 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand, together with Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos Chrysanthis.
  • Jul. 2008: I am serving on the Program Committee of the IEEE ICDCS'09 Conf.
  • June 2008: I received a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI) to support my proposal on "Providing QoS Guarantees for Database-driven Web Applications" (application acceptance rate = 14%)
  • May 2008: Our paper, Dynamic Partitioning of the Cache Hierarchy in Shared Data Centers, has been accepted to VLDB 2008 (acceptance rate = 16.7%)
  • Feb. 2008: Our paper, Potential-Driven Load Distribution for Distributed Data Stream Processing, has been accepted to SSPS 2008.
  • Jan. 2008: I am serving on the Program Committee of the ACM GIS'08 Conf.
  • Oct. 2007: Our paper, ASETS: A Self-Managing Transaction Scheduler, has been accepted to SMDB 2008.
  • Sept. 2007: I have been invited to write the article "Scheduling Strategies for Data Stream Processing" in the Encyclopedia of Database Systems edited by L. Liu and M. Tamer Ozsu.
  • Sept. 2007: I am teaching the Introduction to Databases course in the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Fall'07.
  • Sept. 2007: I am serving on the Program Committee of the RFDM'08 Workshop
  • Aug. 2007: I became a postdoctoral research fellow in the Computer Engineering Research Group at the University of Toronto.
  • June 2007: Received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh.