Amine Mhedhbi

I am an assistant professor at Polytechnique Montréal (Université de Montréal), and an associate academic member at Mila (Québec AI Institute) and IVADO (Institute for Data Valorization). My research spans data management and software systems, with a particular focus on query execution and optimization, and systems infrastructure for AI agents and AI-integrated applications.

My group focuses on two directions: (i) designing data system architectures for analytical and semantic processing (e.g., Flock integrated into DuckDB and FFX); and (ii) building reliable AI systems via better code generation (Distillery), human-guided adaptation (GenEdit, SemanticCommit), and benchmark mutation (SQLMorph).

Aug 26
Gave a talk at an AI summer school by RBC Borealis
Jul 26
Nour graduated with distinction and nominated for best MSc thesis award!
Jun 26
Sunny received a SIGMOD travel award and presented his first paper
May 26
Fun ICDE week: presented at DBML, LLM+Vector, and DSDS Workshops!
Apr 26
Gave seminars at Keio University, UTokyo, and Japan NII

Books

FnT 24
Amine Mhedhbi, Amol Deshpande, Semih Salihoğlu

Publications

Recent Publications
SIGMOD 26
ICDE 26
Mohammadhossein Malekpour, Mohamed Riahi, Maxime Lamothe, Amine Mhedhbi
VLDB 25, Demo
Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
CIDR 25
UIST 25
Priyan Vaithilingam, Munyeong Kim, Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau, Daniel Lee, Amine Mhedhbi, Elena L. Glassman, Ian Arawjo

Group

Alumni

Awards

25
FRQ-IVADO Research Chair in Multimodal Data Engineering
24
Cheriton School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
22
Meta Ph.D. Fellowship Finalist
20
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
20
Meta Research Ph.D. Fellowship - Declined
19
David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship
18
Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) Best Paper Award
18
Cheriton Symposium Poster Presentation - 1st Place
17
University of Waterloo Graduate Entrance Scholarship

Teaching

Winter 27
INF6954AE - Research Topics in Data Systems
Design and architecture of data systems through seminar discussions and a term-long research project.
Fall 26
INF3710 - Files and Databases
Introduction to SQL and internals of relational database management systems.