Ihab Ilyas
Co-Founder And CEO at University of Waterloo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolIhab Ilyas is a serial founder and seasoned technology leader specializing in knowledge graphs, data integration, machine learning for structured data, and data quality, with eight years of industry experience and deep academic roots. He co-founded Tamr and Inductiv (acquired by Apple), led Apple’s Knowledge Platform and Proactive Intelligence teams, and now serves as Co-Founder and CEO of hiddenweights while holding a Professor Emeritus affiliation at the University of Waterloo. Ihab blends product-focused startup execution with rigorous research — a PhD-trained computer scientist who has repeatedly translated academic advances into commercial data management products. He advises blockchain and AI startups like Axelar and bauplan, signaling a keen interest in applying structured-data ML across emerging domains. Known for bridging theory and production, he brings a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive, platform-building experience at scale, and a track record of exits and strategic hires. Not obvious from titles alone: he moves between deep research roles and hands-on engineering leadership, often shaping core data-cleaning and integration technology that underpins larger ML systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc M.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc M.Sc Computer Science at Alexandria UniversityPh.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Purdue University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
675reached
1answer
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Github Skills (6)
inference-engine9
machine-learning8
pytorch8
data-science7
python7
psycopg6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
incntxt/incntxt
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
hiddenweights/hiddenweights
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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