Davood Rafiei

Davood Rafiei is a Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta, specializing in the Department of Computing Science. His research bridges databases, natural language processing, and web technologies, with current projects on large language models and data integration. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (1990), an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (1995), and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto (1999).

His work explores semantic annotation, table transformations, and adversarial analysis in social media. Recent publications emphasize applications of LLMs to structured data tasks like text-to-SQL conversion and knowledge graph integration. Research trends show consistent innovation in NLP-driven data management solutions, with collaborations spanning Google, Kyoto University, and the University of Paris.

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