Amine Mhedhbi

Amine Mhedhbi is an Assistant Professor at Polytechnique Montréal in the Department of Computer Engineering and Software Engineering. He is affiliated with the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO) and the Software Engineering for Machine Learning Applications (SEMLA) group. His research focuses on data management systems, particularly graph-structured databases, multimodal data engineering, and AI-driven query optimization.

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Waterloo
• Former technical advisor to enterprise companies
• Prior applied research leadership at Distyl AI and internships at Microsoft Research

His recent work explores integrating large language models (LLMs) into database systems, optimizing SQL generation, and advancing graph database architectures. Key projects include GraphflowDB and FlockMTL, addressing scalability and declarative semantic applications.

Scientific awards include:

• NSERC Discovery Grant with Discovery Launch Supplement (2025)
• Cheriton School Distinguished Dissertation Award (2024)
• Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2020)
• VLDB Best Paper Award (2018)

He supervises graduate students in database systems and machine learning applications and serves on program committees for top-tier conferences like VLDB and SIGMOD.