Ahmed Eldawy
Research Scientist at University of California, Riverside
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAhmed Eldawy is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC Riverside with 16 years of experience bridging academic research and practical systems. He specializes in databases, big data management, and spatial data processing, and is the inventor of SpatialHadoop, a widely used MapReduce framework for large-scale spatial analytics. His work combines rigorous PhD-trained database research with real-world system building, informed by internships at Microsoft, IBM, and QCRI and earlier industry experience as a senior software developer. Educated in Egypt and the University of Minnesota (PhD in Databases), he has a track record of turning research prototypes into tools adopted by the community. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on researcher who focuses on scalability and geospatial challenges that traditional big data stacks overlook.
17 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
88reputation
3kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (28)
spark-ml10
latin10
spatial9
hadoop8
azure6
concurrency6
casting6
java6
voronoi6
geometric-algorithms5
spatial-data5
ogc5
geometry-library5
geometry4
ruby4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aseldawy/CS167
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Labs and other material for CS167
Contributions:131 commits, 6 PRs, 181 pushes in 2 years 10 months
aseldawy/futurefarmnow
Jun 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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