Curriculum vitae
General Information
Full Name | Hazar Harmouch (She) |
Languages | English (Fluent), German (Upper-intermediate), Arabic (Native) |
Education
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2020 PhD (Dr.-Ing.)
Hasso-Plattner-Institut | Universität Potsdam, Germany - Dissertation: Single-column Data Profiling
- Supervisor (Doktorvater): Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann
- Reviewers
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner
- Prof. Dr. Ziawasch Abedjan
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2015 Master (M.Eng) in Informatics technology engineering
Al Baath University, Homs, Syria - Dissertation: Effectiveness of ensemble methods in sentiment analysis of Tweets
Experience
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2023-now Assistant Professor
INDE lab | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Research focus: Data quality for/with artificial intelligence
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2020-2023 Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Hasso-Plattner-Institut | Universität Potsdam, Germany - Research focus: Data quality for/with artificial intelligence
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2015-2020 Researcher
Hasso-Plattner-Institut | Universität Potsdam, Germany - Research focus: Data profiling, quality, cleaning, and integration
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2010-2015 Lecturer
Faculty of Informatics Engineering at Al Baath University, Homs, Syria
Honors and Awards
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2022 - Named as a distinguished reviewer at SIGMOD 2022
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2016 - Ideenwettbewerb zum Nationalen IT-Gipfel 2016 for ”Mentanome the data profiling platform”
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2015 - DAAD Scholarship for PhD. studies and research
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2015 - Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA)
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2010 - The memorial license for excellent graduate by Al-Baath University
Academic Activity
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Chair
- Tutorial chair ICDE 2025
- The International Workshop on Quality in Databases at VLDB 2023 & 2024.
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Editor
- ACM JDIQ Special issue on Data quality dimensions in Data FAIRification design and processes.
- Frontiers Research Topic on Contesting Artificial Intelligence Communicative Practices, Organizational Structures, and Enabling Technologies
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Program committee memberships
- LWDA 2023 (the database track)
- DBML 2022, 2023, 2024
- SIGMOD 2022, 2025 --> Listed as a distinguished reviewer in 2022
- BTW 2021 (demo track), 2023 (demo track), 2025
- ICDE 2019 , 2024 (demo track), 2025
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Journals reviewer
- The VLDB Journal
- SIGMOD Record
- TODS. ACM Transactions on Database Systems
- JDIQ. Journal of Data and Information Quality (Member of the Editorial Review Board)
- Semantic web journal
- TKDE. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
- Information Systems
- The Computer Journal - Oxford Academic
- PLOS ONE
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Invited talks
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Selected conference talks
- Relational Header Discovery using Similarity Search in a Table Corpus (ICDE 2021)
- Cardinality Estimation. An Experimental Survey (VLDB 2018)--> Listed among the first three papers in pVLDB Reproducibility site, and highlighted at VLDB 2019.
- Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values (VLDB 2018)