Amr Awadallah Bio
Dr. Amr Awadallah is the CEO and cofounder of Vectara, a company that is revolutionizing how we find meaning across all languages of the world using the latest advances in Deep Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. He previously served as VP of Developer Relations for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as Global CTO, he spent 11 years working closely with enterprises around the world on how to ingest and extract value from big data (he famously coined the concept of "schema-on-read vs schema-on-write"). He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! from 2000-2008. Amr joined Yahoo after they acquired his first startup, Aptivia, in mid-2000 which was a search engine for online product information. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University, and his Bachelor and Masters Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.
My PhD Thesis
- "The vMatrix: A backward-compatible solution for improving the interactivity, scalability, and reliability of Internet applications.", Amr Awadallah, Electrical Engineering Dept, Stanford University, June 2007.
Other misc stuff
Select Research Publications
- "The vMatrix: Equi-Ping Game Server Placement For Pre-Arranged First-Person-Shooter Multiplayer Matches" (PDF), Amr Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, The 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2006), Dubai/Sharjah, UAE, March 2006.
- "The vMatrix: Server Switching", Amr Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, IEEE 10th International Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE FTDCS 2004), Suzhou, China, May 2004.
- "The vMatrix: A Network of Virtual Machine Monitors for Dynamic Content Distribution", Amr Awadallah and Mendel Rosenblum, 7th International Workshop on Web Content Caching and Distribution (WCW 2002), Boulder, Colorado, August 2002.
- "Analysis of a packet switch with memories running slower than the line-rate", Sundar Iyer, Amr Awadallah, and Nick McKeown, IEEE INFOCOM 2000, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
- "TCP-BFA: Buffer Fill Avoidance", Amr Awadallah and Chetan Rai, IFIP High Performance Networking Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 1998.
Teaching Assistantships
- CS244A: Introduction to Computer Networks, with Prof. Nick McKeown (97, 98) and Prof. Craig Partridge (99).
- CS344: Computer Networks Projects, with Prof. Nick McKeown (98).
- EE384C: High Performance Computer Network Systems, with Prof. Nick McKeown (98).