Amine Mhedhbi

Amine Mhedhbi
amine.mhedhbi@polymtl.ca
Pavillon Lassonde, M-4119
+1(514)-340-4711 Ext.3779
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Pavillon Lassonde, M-4405
Montréal, QC H3T 1J4

I am an Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal (Université 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 execution and optimization, storage systems, and infrastructure for AI. My work aligns closely with the communities: VLDB, SIGMOD, TCDE, and CIDR.

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!

Book

FnT-DB 24
Modern Techniques For Querying Graph-structured Databases
Amine Mhedhbi, Amol Deshpande, Semih Salihoğlu

Publications

Recent Publications
SIGMOD 26
ICDE 26
SQLMorph: Query Mutation and Fine-Grained Metrics for Text-to-SQL Evaluation
Mohammadhossein Malekpour, Mohamed Riahi, Maxime Lamothe, Amine Mhedhbi
VLDB 25, Demo
Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB
Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
CIDR 25
UIST 25
Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale
Priyan Vaithilingam, Munyeong Kim, Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau, Daniel Lee, Amine Mhedhbi, Elena L. Glassman, Ian Arawjo

Group

Alumni

Awards

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