His research interests are in the area of database management, with a current focus on cloud computing, data integration on the web, self-managing database systems, and XML databases. Dr. Aboulnaga obtained M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Alexandria University, Egypt. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM Almaden Research Centre from 2002 to 2004, and a Visiting Research Scientist at Google Waterloo during his sabbatical in 2009-2010. Dr. Aboulnaga is an IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellow and a recipient of a Google Research Award, the Ontario Early Researcher Award, and a Best Paper Award at VLDB 2012. He is a senior member of the IEEE and ACM, and serves on the technical advisory board of ClevrU Corp.