Amine Mhedhbi

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering 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).

News

Sep 25
Awarded the FRQ-IVADO research chair as part of the (R3) AI initiative by IVADO.
Apr 25
May 24
Received U. Waterloo's Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Jan 24
Joined Polytechnique Montréal (Université de Montréal) as an assistant professor.
Jul 23
Joined Distyl AI to found their applied research team.
Jul 23
Defended my Ph.D. thesis. Grateful to my advisor for the journey!

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

24
Cheriton School of Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award
20
Meta Research Ph.D. Fellowship - declined
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.