What is Ihab Ilyas?
{{Infobox person | name = Ihab Ilyas | image = Professor Ihab F. Ilyas.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|5|13}} | birth_place = [[Alexandria, Egypt]] | nationality = Canadian, Egyptian | alma_mater = [[Purdue University]] ([[PhD]]) Alexandria University ([[BSc]], [[MSc]]) | employer = [[University of Waterloo]] , [[Apple Inc.]] | known_for = [[Data science]], Data cleaning, Data integration }} '''Ihab Francis Ilyas''' is a [[Computer science|computer scientist]] and a professor of computer science at the [[University of Waterloo]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=UWaterloo adds research chair into data cleansing|work=IT World Canada|url=http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/uwaterloo-adds-research-chair-into-data-cleansing/386809|access-date=2017-09-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=May 20, 2014|title=Chairholder Profile {{!}} Ihab Ilyas {{!}} Thomson Reuters-NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Data Cleaning|url=https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Chairholders-TitulairesDeChaire/Chairholder-Titulaire_eng.asp?pid=1027|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=January 13, 2021|website=Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada}}</ref> == Biography == Ilyas was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at Alexandria University in 1995 and 1999, and earned his PhD at Purdue University in 2004. Ilyas held a Cheriton Faculty Fellowship<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-06-12|title=David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowships in Computer Science {{!}} Cheriton School of Computer Science {{!}} University of Waterloo|url=https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/faculty-fellowships-and-awards/david-r-cheriton-faculty-fellowships-computer-science|access-date=2023-05-25|website=web.archive.org|archive-date=2018-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612144432/https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/faculty-fellowships-and-awards/david-r-cheriton-faculty-fellowships-computer-science|url-status=dead}}</ref> at the Da