Amine Mhedhbi

Amine Mhedhbi
amine.mhedhbi@polymtl.ca
Pavillon Lassonde, M-4119
+1(514)-340-4711 Ext.3779
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Mailing address
Pavillon Lassonde, M-4405
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, the Engineering school affiliated with Université de Montréal. I am a member of IVADO (Data Valorisation Institute) and I also serve as a technical advisor to some companies.

My research spans all aspects of data and information management and overlaps with the research communities: VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE TCDE, and CIDR. I focus on analytical and AI-driven data system architectures (e.g., FlockMTL and previously GraphflowDB and its successor Kùzu).

Earlier, I started the applied research team at Distyl AI helping to drive some of their earliest solutions for F500 enterprise workflows. Prior to that, I received my PhD from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. I also completed two research internships at Microsoft Research.

News

Apr 2025.
Received the NSERC Discovery Grant with the Discovery Launch Supplement for a research program on multimodal data systems.
Jan 2025
Presented the GenEdit system developed at Distyl AI at CIDR, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Jan 2025
Visited CWI for a week thanks to Madelon's hospitality. Gave a talk titled "Imposing Declarativity on Analytical Semantic Applications".
May 2024.
Received the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.

Teaching

INF3710 - Files and Databases
Fall 2024, Fall 2025
Introduction to relational database management systems: SQL, architecture, storage, query processing and optimization, transactions, and recovery.

Group

Graduated students


Interns

  • Arien Andalibi-Abadan (MEng 2025Pometry)
  • Raissa Oumarou Petitot (BEng 2025Morgan Stanley)
  • Skander Hannachi (BEng 2024Uno Platform)

Publications

Recent Publications
Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
VLDB (Demo) 2025
Priyan Vaithilingam, Munyeong Kim, Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau, Daniel Lee, Amine Mhedhbi, Elena L. Glassman, Ian Arawjo
UIST 2025
Amine Mhedhbi, Amol Deshpande, Semih Salihoğlu
FnT 2024
Mohammadhossein Malekpour, Nour Shaheen, Foutse Khomh, Amine Mhedhbi
TRL @ NeurIps 2024

Dissertation

Amine Mhedhbi, 🏆 UWaterloo Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award

Awards

Cheriton School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award (2024)
Meta Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist (2022)
Meta Research Ph.D. Fellowship - declined (2020)
David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship (2019)
University of Waterloo Graduate Entrance Scholarship (2017)

Service

2026:
VLDBProgram Committee
SIGMODProgram Committee
ICDELocal Organization Chair
2025:
VLDBProgram Committee
VLDBJReview Board Member
SIGMODProgram Committee
TODSReviewer
ICDEProgram Committee (Industry Track)
TGDKEditorial Board Member
SEMLAProgram co-chair
2024:
VLDBProgram Committee (PhD Workshop)
VLDBJReviewer
ICDEProgram Committee (Industry Track)
TKDEReviewer
TGDKEditorial Board Member
LLMOps DayCo-organizer