Posted by Azza Abouzied

Azza Abouzied

From Curbing Epidemics to Investing: We can Help!

Decision Making, Epidemics

We built a tool, EpiPolicy, to help policy-makers better plan interventions to combat epidemics [13]. It was an eye-opening experience, where through collaborations and interviews with teams of epidemiologists, public health officials, and economists, we understood some of the complexities of decision-making on a momentous scale. Decisions and policies made by these teams can seriously […]

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Azza Abouzied

Courting ML: Witnessing the Marriage of Relational & Web Data Systems to Machine Learning

Big Data, Databases, Interview, Machine Learning

The web is an ever-evolving source of information, with data and knowledge derived from it powering a great range of modern applications. Accompanying the huge wealth of information, web data also introduces numerous challenges due to its size, diversity, volatility, inaccuracy, and contradictions. This year’s WebDB 2018 theme emphasizes the challenges and opportunities that arise […]

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