Research

• Areas of Interest: Natural language interfaces to databases, Tabular data integration and annotation, Querying and indexing, Open-domain QA, Web and social media search and analysis
• Overview
• Books:
  • Natural Language Interfaces to Databases, Springer Nature, 2023 (coming up)
  • 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

• WSDM 2024, PC member
• CIKM 2023, PC member
• KDD 2023, PC member
• SIGIR 2023, PC member
• WSDM 2023, PC member
• ICDE 2022, 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