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 an associate academic member of Mila (Québec AI Institute) and IVADO (Data Valorisation Institute). 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). I hold an FRQ-IVADO chair in multimodal data engineering.

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

Sep 2025.
Awarded the FRQ-IVADO research chair in multimodal data engineering. The award is part of the robust, reasoning, and responsible (R3) AI initiative by IVADO.
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".

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