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Amr Ahmed is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google. He received his M.Sc and PhD degrees from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He received the best paper award at KDD 2014 , the best Paper Award at WSDM 2014, the 2012 ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award, and a best paper award (runner-up) at WSDM 2012. He co-chaired the WWW'18 track on Web Content Analysis and served as an Area Chair for IJCAI 2019, SIGIR 2019, SIGIR 2018, ICML 2018, ICML 2017, KDD 2016, WSDM 2015, ICML 2014, and ICDM 2014. His research interests include large-scale machine learning, data/web mining, user modeling, personalization, social networks and content analysis.
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