Research

• Areas of Interest: Natural language interfaces to databases, Tabular data integration and annotation, Large language models, Open-domain QA and web IR
• Books:
  • Natural Language Interfaces to Databases, Springer Nature, 2023 (also on Amazon)
  • Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces (Synthesis Lecture on Data Management), August 2018 (also on Amazon)
• Publications at Google Scholar and DBLP.

Teaching

• Fall 2025, CMPUT 291 - Intoduction to file and database management
• Fall 2025, CMPUT 692 - Modern Database Systems with Language Models

Students and visitors

Current/Recent Professional Activities

• VLDB 2026, PC member
• ICDE 2026, PC member
• SIGIR 2026, PC member
• ICDE 2025, PC member
• WSDM 2025, PC member
• ACL Reolling Reviews 2023-2026, reviewer
• The Web 2025, PC member