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)
• Recent Publications
• 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
  • 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

• SIGMOD 2027, PC member
• VLDB 2026, PC member
• ICDE 2025-2026, PC member
• SIGIR 2023-2026, PC member
• ACL Reolling Reviews 2023-2026, Area chair/reviewer
• WSDM 2025, PC member
• The Web 2025, PC member

Teaching

• Fall 2025, CMPUT 291 - Intoduction to file and database management
• Fall 2025, CMPUT 692 - Topics in Data Management with LLMs

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 and David Patterson's slides on PhD
• A little guide on using lab machines from home
• Check out Ktau.ai, a company on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) from a friend.