Summary
Essam Mansour is an Associate Professor at Concordia University and head of the Concordia Data Systems (CoDS) lab, with 12 years of experience researching and building intelligent systems for large-scale, federated, and heterogeneous data. His work sits at the intersection of AI and data management—AI for databases and databases for AI—spanning LLM-based systems, knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, chatbots, and distributed/parallel architectures. He founded Novational to translate research insights into practical tools and collaborations, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and entrepreneurial drive. Prior roles at Qatar Computing Research Institute, KAUST, and European research centers underscore a strong track record in both foundational research and applied systems. Known for pragmatic solutions such as temporal extensions to DBMSs and XML/XQuery tooling from his PhD work, he emphasizes scalable, production-ready research. Based in Quebec, he combines deep theoretical grounding with hands-on system building to tackle real-world data science challenges.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Technological University Dublin
M.Sc, Information Systems, M.Sc, Information Systems at Cairo University
arabic and english