Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Systems Engineering
Alexandria, Egypt
Office: Admin Building, 1-3F131
Email: ielghand @ alexu . edu.eg
Iman Elghandour is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Systems Engineering at Alexandria University. Dr. Elghandour obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo in November 2010. Her research interests are in the area of database management. Her current primary focus is on managing large data stored in cloud computing environments.
Mohamed Hassaan and Iman Elghandour. A Real-Time Big Data Analysis Framework on a CPU/GPU Heterogeneous Cluster: A Meteorological Application Case Study. In Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China, 2016.
Mariam Malak, Iman Elghandour, and Magdy Nagi. CoS-HDFS: Co-Locating Geo-Distributed Spatial Data in Hadoop Distributed File System. In Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Big Data Computing, Applications, and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China, 2016.
Ahmed Khalifa, Iman Elghandour, and Nagwa El-Makky. IncReStore: Incremental Computation of MapReduce Workows. In Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW) , Helsinki, Finland, 2016.
Iman Elghandour and Mohamed Khalifa. City-Wide Traffic Congestion Prediction in Road Networks. In Proc. Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference (ARC) , Doha, Qatar, 2014 (Poster).
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, and Calisto Zuzarte. " Recommending XML physical designs for XML databases." VLDB Journal, 22(4):447--470, 2013.
Iman Elghandour and Ashraf Aboulnaga. “ReStore: Reusing results of MapReduce jobs,” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 5(6):586–597, 2012. Presented at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '12), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012.
Iman Elghandour and Ashraf Aboulnaga. “ReStore: Reusing results of MapReduce jobs in Pig,” Demonstration at the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘12), Scottsdale, USA, May 2012.
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, and Calisto Zuzarte. “Recommending XMLTable Views for XQuery Workloads,” In Proceedings of the International XML Database Symposium (XSym ’09), Lyon, France, 2009.
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, Fei Chiang, Andrey Balmin, Kevin Beyer, and Calisto Zuzarte. “An XML Index Advisor for DB2,” Demonstration at the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD ‘08), Vancouver, Canada, 2008.
Iman Elghandour, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Daniel C. Zilio, Fei Chiang, Andrey Balmin, Kevin Beyer, and Calisto Zuzarte. “XML Index Recommendation with Tight Optimizer Coupling,” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE ‘08), Cancon, Mexico, 2008.
MSc Students
Ahmed Khalifa (co-supervised with Prof. Nagwa El-Makky)
Mina Edward (co-supervised with Prof. Magdy Nagy)
Sara Moustafa (co-supervised with Prof. Mohamed Ismail)
Ahmed Eshra (co-supervised with Prof. Soheir Bassuni)
Past Students:
Mariam Malak (co-supervised with Prof. Magdy Nagy)
Teaching
CS333: Operating Systems: Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
CS432: Distributed Systems: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
CS 713: Data Management in Cloud Computing Environments: Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012
Real-time Analysis of Meterological Data. (ongoing)
ReStore: Reusing MapReduce Jobs. (ongoing)
Big Data Analytics for Smart Traffic Management.
Big Data Analytics for Market Prediction. (ongoing)