Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (born 1954) is a Libyan born Qatari computer scientist, academic and executive, and the founding executive director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute under Hamad bin Khalifa University. Since his appointment in 2010 he has focused on large scale computing challenges addressing Qatar's national priorities, started the Qatar Computing Research Institute-CSAIL research collaboration with MIT in 2012, and later started the Qatar Center for AI. He was previously an associate then full professor of computer science at Purdue University for twenty two years and a director of the Purdue Cyber Center, and served as Chief Scientist for Hewlett-Packard's office of Strategy and Technology.