Amine Mhedhbi
amine.mhedhbi@polymtl.ca
Pavillon Lassonde, M-4119
+1(514)-340-4711 Ext.3779
Mailing address
Pavillon Lassonde, M-4405
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4
I am an Assistant Professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal, an associate academic member of Mila - Québec AI Institute, and holder of an FRQ-IVADO Research Chair. My research spans core areas of data management and software systems, with a particular focus on query processing and optimization, storage systems, and infrastructure for AI. My work aligns closely with the communities: VLDB, SIGMOD, TCDE, and CIDR.
News
Sep 2025
Awarded the FRQ-IVADO research chair as part of the (R3) AI initiative by IVADO.
Apr 2025
Received the NSERC Discovery Grant with the Discovery Launch Supplement.
May 2024
Received U. Waterloo's Computer Science Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Jan 2024
Joined Polytechnique Montréal as an assistant professor.
Jul 2023
Joined Distyl AI to found their applied research team.
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
- Anas Dorbani (PhD)
- Sunny Yasser (PhD)
- Eyad Salama (MSc)
- Nour Shaheen (MSc, co-advised with Sarath Chandar)
- Alexandre Beauregard (BEng - Intern)
- Hassib Kevin Ezzedine (BEng - Intern)
- Ilias Bouraoui (BSc EPFL - Intern)
Graduated students
- Mo Malekpour (MSc 2025, co-advised with Foutse Khomh)
- Mohamed Riahi (MSc 2025, co-advised with Foutse Khomh)
Interns
- Arien Andalibi-Abadan (MEng 2025 → Pometry)
- Raissa Oumarou Petitot (BEng 2025 → Morgan Stanley)
- Skander Hannachi (BEng 2024 → Uno Platform)
Publications
Recent Publications
Sunny Yasser, Anas Dorbani, Amine Mhedhbi
SIGMOD 2026
Mohammadhossein Malekpour, Mohamed Riahi, Maxime Lamothe, Amine Mhedhbi
ICDE 2026
Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
VLDB (Demo) 2025
Karime Maamari, Connor Landy, Amine Mhedhbi
CIDR 2025
Priyan Vaithilingam, Munyeong Kim, Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau, Daniel Lee, Amine Mhedhbi, Elena L. Glassman, Ian Arawjo
UIST 2025
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
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