Large Scale and Big Data ― Processing and Management

Dr. Sherif Sakr is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He is also a visiting researcher at National ICT Australia (NICTA) and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales, Australia. Sherif received his PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany in 2007. In 2011, he held a visiting researcher position at the eXtreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research Laboratories, Redmond, WA, USA. In 2012, Sherif held a research MTS position in Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.

Dr. Sakr has published more than 60 refereed research publications in international journals and conferences such as the IEEE TSC, ACM CSUR, JCSS, IEEE COMST, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, WWW, and CIKM. He has served in the organizing and program committees of numerous conferences and workshops. He is also a constant reviewer for IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSC, IEEE Software, ACM TWEB, ACM TAAS, DKE Elsevier, JSS Elsevier, WWW Springer, and many other highly reputable journals. Dr. Sakr is an IEEE senior member.

Dr. Mohamed Medhat Gaber is a reader in the School of Computing Science and Digital Media of Robert Gordon University, UK. Mohamed received his PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 2006. He then held appointments with the University of Sydney, CSIRO, Monash University, and the University of Portsmouth. Dr. Gaber has published over 100 papers, coauthored one monograph-style book, and edited/coedited four books on data mining, and knowledge discovery. He has served in the program committees of major conferences related to data mining, including ICDM, PAKDD, ECML/PKDD, and ICML. He has also been a member of the organizing committees of numerous conferences and workshops.