He is also a Senior Lecturer in The School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a Visiting Senior Researcher in the Software Systems Research Group at National ICT Australia (NICTA). In 2012, Sherif held a Research MTS position in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. In 2011, Dr. Sakr held a Visiting Researcher with the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), Microsoft Research Laboratories, USA. He has published more than 75 refereed research publications in international journals and conferences such as: VLDB, SIGMOD, WWW, CIKM, ISWC, DASFAA, ER, BPM, ICWS, JCSS, IEEE TSC, IEEE COMST, JCST, JDM and ACM Computing Surveys. Dr. Sakr authored and edited 4 books, the most recent of them are "Cloud Data Management" by springer and "Large Scale and Big Data: Processing and Management" by CRC press.