Research

• Data & Language Intelligence (DaLI) Lab
• 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 (also at Google Scholar and DBLP).
• Demos and project pages
  • DIN-SQL: Decomposed In-Context Learning of Text-to-SQL with Self-Correction
  • BareTQL: An Interactive System for Searching and Extraction of Open Data Tables
  • Synonymy: a Two-Player Guessing Game
  • DeWild: Data Extraction Using Wild Cards
  • ALVIN: Alberta System for Visualizing Large Networks
• NSERC Summer Research Projects (for our undergrads)

Teaching

• Fall 2026, CMPUT 291 - Intoduction to file and database management

Students, visitors , and prospective students

Current/Recent Professional Activities

• ICDE 2027, Senior PC member
• AAAI 2027, Senior PC member
• SIGMOD 2027, PC member
• NeurIPS 2026, Area chair
• VLDB 2026, PC member
• ACL Rolling Review 2025-2026, Area chair
• SIGIR 2023-2026, PC member
• WSDM 2025, PC member
• The Web 2025, PC member