Welcome

Welcome to my homepage. I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. My advisors are Prof. Amol Deshpande and Prof. Lise Getoor.

Research Interests

My research interests are in database management systems and machine learning, specifically, in aspects of declarative analysis and query optimization for network analysis and relational inference, such as collective classification, link predication and entity resolution. Interesting problems arise from the interaction of network analysis and database management systems such as:

  • Multi-query optimization
  • Incremental view maintenance
  • Groupwise query processing
  • Graph storage and querying
  • Graph queries selectivity estimation

Publications

  • Walaa Eldin M. Moustafa, Galileo Namata, Amol Deshpande, and Lise Getoor, "Declarative Cleaning of Noisy Information Graphs". Under Review.
  • Walaa Eldin M. Moustafa, Vibha Sazawal, and Lise Getoor, "Social Network Analysis of Software Repositories for Expertise Finding and Bug Triage". In preparation.
  • Ethar Elsaka, Walaa Eldin Moustafa, and Bao Nguyen, and Atif Memon "A Social Network-Based Approach for GUI Testing,". In preparation.
  • Walaa Eldin M. Moustafa, "Who should catch this Exception?" Scholarly paper, University of Maryland at College Park, December 2008.
  • Walaa Eldin M. Moustafa, Magdy H. Nagi, and Nagwa M. El-Makky, "Traveler's Predictive Route Guidance Using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication," International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 2008. (Acceptance rate: 27%)

Education

  • Ph.D student
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park
  • MS in Computer Science
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland at College Park, December 2008.
  • M.Sc in Computer Science
    Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt, June 2006.
  • B.Sc in Computer Science
    Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Egypt, June 2002.

Coursework

Fall 2006
CMSC723 Computational Linguistics I
CMSC737 Fundamentals of Software Testing

Spring 2007
CMSC724 Database Management Systems
CMSC818Z Information Centric Design of Systems

Fall 2007
CMSC726 Machine Learning
CMSC828K Sensors and Mobile Data Tracking

Spring 2008
CMSC751 Parallel Algorithms
CMSC828G Link Mining
CMSC838V Creativity Support Tools

CV

A PDF version of my CV can be found here.

Contact

Address
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
A.V. Williams Building
College Park, MD 20742

Email
w a l a a @ c s . u m d . e d u