About

I am a Teaching Assistant in the College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University. I did my PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Chen Li at UC Irvine. My research interests are mainly in semantic query optimization and reproducibility of big data analytics.

Email: [first].[last] [at] gmail [dot] com

News

  • 07/2023: I successfully defended my PhD dissertation.
  • 06/2023: I presented Raven at the HILDA workshop co-located with Sigmod. It was a great experience working with my mentor Dr. Zhengjie Miao to refine the work.
  • 06/2023: I was hooded by my advisor Prof. Li at the UC Irvine graduate commencement.
  • 04/2023: I successfully passed my PhD topic proposal.
  • 04/2023: It was a valuable experience volunteering at the ICDE 2023 conference.
  • 11/2022: I am honored to receive the “Isabel Cruz Memorial Travel Grant” to recognize junior female researchers in geospatial fields.
  • 11/2022: I am pleased to be part of the kick-off meeting for forming a new group “SpatialW” for women in geospatial research.
  • 09/2022: I participated in presenting our demo paper titled “Collaborative and Interactive Workflow-Based Data Analytics in Texera” along with a few other Texera team members at VLDB 2022.
  • 09/2022: Our “Workflow Version Control” in Texera is presented in a blog post by Jingqi.
  • more news

Education

2018-2023
PhD, Computer Science; University of California, Irvine
2014-2016
MS, Computer Science (Software Engineering); University of Southern California
2007-2011
BS, Information Technology; King Saud University

Experience

2014-current
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering Department; King Saud University
2012-2013
IT Team Lead, IT Development Services Unit; Alawal Bank

Partial List of Mentored Students