Research

• Areas of Interest: Natural language interfaces to databases, Tabular data integration and annotation, Large language models, Open-domain QA and web IR
• Overview
• 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)
• Recent Publications
• Demos and project pages (not maintained)
  • 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
  • TOPIC: Measuring Web Page Reputations
• NSERC Summer Research Projects (for our undergrads)
• Slides of our SIGMOD 2017 tutorial on natural language data management and interfaces (pdf is here)

Students and visitors

Prospective Students (Please check out the link before sending me an email!)

Current/Recent Professional Activities

• ICDE 2025, PC member
• WSDM 2025, PC member
• ACL Reolling Reviews 2023-2025, reviewer
• The Web 2024, PC member
• WSDM 2024, PC member
• SIGIR 2024, PC member
• CIKM 2023, PC member
• KDD 2023, PC member

Teaching

• Fall 2023, CMPUT 291 - Intoduction to file and database management

Some Useful Links

• Why to do a PhD in Computer Science? Is it worth it? Here are some answers.
• Jennifer Widom's short tips for writing technical papers and giving conference talks
• H.T. Kung's advice on useful thoughts about Ph.D. thesis research
• A little guide on using lab machines from home