Amine Mhedhbi
B.Eng., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Data Management Systems
- Multimodal Data Engineering
- Query Processing and Optimization
- Graph-structured Data Management
Affiliation(s)
- FRQ-IVADO Chair in Multimodal Data Engineering, Chairholder
- IVADO – Institute for Data Valorization, Member
- Multidisciplinary institute for cybersecurity and cyber resilience, Member
- Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, Associate member
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2711 Database management
- 2720 Computer systems software
- 2803 Knowledge representation
Publications
Recent publications
Journal article
Journal article
Conference paper
Conference paper
Yasser, S., Dorbani, A., & Mhedhbi, A. (2026). Factorized and Vectorized Execution: Optimizing Analytical and Semantic Queries over Relations. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 4(3), 1-26.
Dorbani, A., Yasser, S., Lin, J., & Mhedhbi, A. (2025). Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 18(12), 5415-5418.
Maamari, K., Landy, C., & Mhedhbi, A. (2025, January). GenEdit: Compounding Operators and Continuous Improvement to Tackle Text-to-SQL in the Enterprise [Paper]. 15th Annual Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR ’25), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 
Vaithilingam, P., Kim, M., Acosta-Parenteau, F.-C., Lee, D., Mhedhbi, A., Glassman, E. L., & Arawjo, I. (2025, September). Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale [Paper]. 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2025), Busan, Republic of Korea (18 pages). 
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Teaching
• INF3710 - Files and databases
Education
- Ph.D. (University of Waterloo)
Supervision at Polytechnique
COMPLETED
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Master's Thesis (2)
- Malekpour, M. (2025). Enhancing Text-to-SQL Systems Through LLM Routing and Effective Evaluation [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Riahi, M. (2025). Leveraging Query Expansion and Augmentation for Text-to-SQL Evaluation [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].
- Malekpour, M. (2025). Enhancing Text-to-SQL Systems Through LLM Routing and Effective Evaluation [Master's thesis, Polytechnique Montréal].