Biography:

Eng. Youssef Eldakar is the Director of the International School of Information Science Department at the BA. He joined the BA as a software engineer in 2002, working with Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Founder, to set up the BA's first web archiving computer cluster and continued to lead the BA?s effort in web archiving in the years that followed. In 2013, Eldakar also became involved with BA's supercomputing service. Today, Eldakar's primary focus as the department Director is providing support to science through the technologies of parallel computing, big data, natural language processing, and visualization. In 2000, Eldakar was with Audium, a voice application developer in New York City. Eldakar started his career in technology at Baron Software out on Long Island, New York, in 1998. He earned his Bachelor?s Degree in Computing in 2001 at the New York Institute of Technology. Eldakar was profiled in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering since its 2008 edition.

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