Amine

badge Amine Mhedhbi
Assistant Professor
[GIGL] [IVADO] [IMC²]
Polytechnique Montréal

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mail amine.mhedhbi@polymtl.ca
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I am a computer scientist interested in all aspect of data management. I focus on building and analyzing data management systems and highly value deployments to end-users. Through industry collaborations, e.g., with Distyl AI and Pometry, I try to think about technical and research challenges starting from product requirements and end-user pain points.

Past projects:

GraphflowDB: an in-memory research prototype, co-built during my Ph.D.
Kùzu: GraphflowDB successor and is a VC-funded startup.

Research Interests

I aspire to build usable and open-source data management systems to tackle:

Optimizing NLP & data science pipelines.
Info. retrieval over heteronegeous data sources.
Query execution and optimization for analytical workloads.

News

Jan 2024. Started advising Mohamed Riahi and Mohammadhossein Malekpour with Prof. Foutse Khomh.

Jan 2024. Joined Polytechnique Montréal as an assistant professor.

Jul 2023. Joined Distyl AI to found their research team.

Jul 2023. Defended my Ph.D. thesis. Grateful to my advisor for the journey!

Jul 2022. Will be giving a 3-hr tutorial at VLDB 2022 on foundations, system implementations, and open challenges when querying graph-structured relations.

Research Team (Lab)

Sunny Yasser

Mohamed Riahi

Mohammadhossein Malekpour

Ela Mokhtari

Service

Organizer:
LLM Ops day @ Polytechnique Montréal
PC Member:
  ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
    Research track, 2025
  Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Endowment Conference
    Research track, 2025
    Ph.D. workshop, 2024
  IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
    Industrial and Application track, 2024
    Search, Exploration, and Analysis (SEA) Graph Workshop, 2024
Editorial Board Member:
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) 2023-present
External Reviewer:
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020-2024
  The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ) 2023
  Semantic Web journal (SWJ) 2021
  ACM The Web Conference (WWW) 2020

Biography

Amine Mhedhbi is an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal and a researcher at Distyl AI. His interests are in building and analyzing data management systems; his work includes tackling performance considerations and debuggability, interface design, and applications. Amine received his Ph.D. in 2023 from the University of Waterloo. His research has been awarded a VLDB Best Paper Award, a Microsoft Ph.D. Fellowship Award, a Meta Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist, and a David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship.