Amr Awadallah

Amr Awadallah

Amr Awadallah

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 Web Presence: My PhD Thesis: Other misc stuff:
Select Research Publications: 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).
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