Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706 Phone: 608-890-0449 Fax: 608-262-9777 E-mail: ahmed@cs.wisc.edu Ahmed M. Ayad Education --------- 1- September 2000 - present Ph.D. student, Computer Sciences Department, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. * Expected Graduation date: July 2006. * GPA: 3.955/4.0 (4.0 in CS courses). * Passed the qualifying exam in the Database area. * Passed the preliminary examination in the Database area. * Minor in Business Administration. 2- May 2002 M.Sc. in Computer Sciences. Computer Sciences Department, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. 3- August 2000 M.Sc. in Computer Sciences. Deptartment of Computer Sciences and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. * Field of interest: Data Mining. * Thesis title: "A new algorithm for incremental mining of constrained association rules". 4- July 1997 BSc. Degree in computer sciences. Department of Computer Sciences and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. * Graduated with degree of honor. * Came third on a class of 36. * Cumulative grade of 90%. * Received a teaching assistance scholarship from the department. Professional and training experience ------------------------------------ 1- Spring 2003 - present Research Assistant - University of Wisconsin - Madison. Working under the supervision of Professor Jeffrey Naughton. The focus of my research is query optimization and approximation techniques for queries over data streams. 2- Summer 2005 Summer Intern - Microsoft Research Redmond - Microsoft Research - Redmond, WA. Worked with the MSR Database group on supporting statistics on views. Details are pending publication. 3- Summer 2004 Summer Intern - Microsoft Research Redmond - Microsoft Research - Redmond, WA. Worked in the context of MTCache, Microsoft SQL Server's middle-tier cache research prototype. My work involved extending MTCache so that users of the cache are guaranteed to see their own updates. Work done as part of MSR Database group. 4- Summer 2001 Summer Inter - IBM Almaden Research Center - IBM Research - San Jose, CA. Participated in developing a compiler to translate from a subset of Xquery 2.0 (XPath 2.0) to SQL using Java. Work done as part of the IBM Content Manager group. Teaching experience 1- August 2000 - Summer 2003 Teaching assistant in the Computer Sciences Department, UW-Madison, Madison, WI. 2- December 1998 - August 2000 Teaching assistant in the Dept. of Computer Sciences and Automatic Control, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. Publications ------------ * Paul Larson, Florian Waas, Ahmed Ayad. Improving Cardinality Estimation Using Feedback Views. In Preparation. * Ahmed M. Ayad, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Stephen Wright, Utkarsh Srivastava. Approximating Streaming Joins Under CPU Limitations. To appear, ICDE 2006, Atlanta. * Ahmed M. Ayad, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Stephen Wright, Utkarsh Srivastava. Approximating Streaming Joins Under CPU Limitations. UW-Madison Technical Report #1542. * Ahmed M. Ayad, Jeffrey F. Naughton. Static Optimization of Conjunctive Queries with Sliding Windows Over Infinite Streams. SIGMOD 2004, Paris. * Ahmed M. Ayad, Nagwa M. El-Makky, Yousry Taha. Incremental Mining of Constrained Association Rules. First International SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM01), Chicago, April 2001. * Ahmed M. Ayad. A new algorithm for incremental mining of constrained association rules. MSc. thesis, Dept. of Computer Sciences and Automatic Control, Alexandria University, August 2000. References ---------- 1. Professor Jeffrey F. Naughton Professor Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608)262-8737 naughton@cs.wisc.edu 2. Paul Larson, Ph.D. Senior Researcher Database Group - Microsoft Research Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Phone: (425)703-6260 palarson@microsoft.com 3. Professor Stephen Wright Professor Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608)262-4838 swright@cs.wisc.edu 4. Professor David DeWitt Professor Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608)263-5489 dewitt@cs.wisc.edu 5. Professor Raghu Ramakrishnan Professor Department of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 Phone: (608)262-9759 raghu@cs.wisc.edu