Mumtaz Ahmad

School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1
Canada

Phone: 519 888-4567 x33350
Office: DC 3305

I am a PhD student in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I am working under the supervision of Dr. Ashraf Aboulnaga.

My research interests include: Database Systems, Query Interactions, Experiment-driven performance modeling, Workload Management etc.

Publications

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, and Kamesh Munagala. "Interaction-Aware Scheduling of Report Generation Workloads", In The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), volume 20, number 4, 2011.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ivan T. Bowman, "Predicting system performance for multi-tenant database workloads", In International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest '11), June 2011.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu. "Predicting Completion Times of Batch Query Workloads Using Interaction-aware Models and Simulation", In International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT '11), March 2011.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu. "Interaction-Aware Prediction of Business Intelligence Workload Completion Times", In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '10), March 2010.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, and Shivnath Babu. "Query Interactions in Database Workloads", In International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (DBTest '09), June 2009.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, and Kamesh Munagala. "Modeling and Exploiting Query Interactions in Database Systems", In ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '08), October 2008.

• Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, and Kamesh Munagala. "QShuffler: Getting the Query Mix Right", In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '08), April 2008.