Ahmed Eldawy
Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolAhmed 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.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer, B.Sc., Computer at Alexandria UniversityUniversity of MinnesotaGeneral Secondary School, General, General Secondary School, General at ElAbbaseya secondary school
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Github Skills (31)
spark-ml10
latin10
spatial9
voronoi7
describe7
hadoop7
azure6
concurrency6
casting6
topology6
java6
triangulation5
jts5
geometric-algorithms5
gis5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aseldawy/spider
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
This repository provides the implementation for Spatial Data Generators paper, which was presented in 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Gems (SpatialGems 2019, https://www.spatialgems.net/).
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 1 year 10 months
acmworkshopspatialspatial-datagenerators
aseldawy/futurefarmnow
Jun 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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