Essam Mansour
Summary
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SeniorEssam 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
Github Skills (16)
blockchain5
ethereum5
specification4
gremlin3
gremlin-server3
architecture2
linked-data2
spring-boot2
tinkerpop2
knowledge-graph2
python2
spec2
angular1
data-profiling1
docker1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dsqcri/old-ds-website
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
DS Website
Contributions:170 commits, 21 pushes in 1 year 1 month
qcri/data_civilizer_system
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:95 commits in 6 months
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