David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Contact
- Office: DC 3350
tamer.ozsu AT uwaterloo.ca
+1 (519) 888-4043
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General Information
- Undergraduate internships: I am not going to be admitting any international interns for the foreseeable future. Please do not write to me about internship as I will not be able to respond to individual emails.
- Graduate students: I am not going to be admitting any more graduate students. Please do not write to me with inquiries.
- Driving directions to Waterloo
- Visitors: campus map; please park in the M lot
Recent News
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Forthcoming: Principles and Foundations of Data Science, ACM Books, 2027.
Supplementary material.
- Forthcoming: RDF Data Management and Processing, Synthesis Lectures in Data Management, Springer, 2026.
- Xiangru Jian's paper "RA-SQL: Relational Algebra as Deterministic Chain-of-Thought for Natural Language to SQL" has been accepted to SIGMOD 2027.
- Yaseen Ahmed graduated (MMath; September 2026) with a thesis entitled “MADBench — Measuring Agentic DBMSs: Quantifying the Protocol Tax of MCP-Mediated Query Workloads”
- Arman Davoodi graduated (MMath; September 2026) with a thesis entitled “Approximate Nearest Neighbors Search using IVF-based Indices on Memory-Disaggregated Platforms”
- Sepideh Abedini graduated (MMath; April 2026) with a thesis entitled “SQLyzer: A Comprehensive Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Text-to-SQL”
- Zeynep Korkmaz graduated (PhD; March 2026) with a thesis entitled “Locality Optimizations and Analysis for Storage Hierarchies of Graph Databases”
- Another offering of the Data Engineering for Data Science course in Winter 2026 (only for data science students)
- Chao Zhang's paper from his post-doc period is finally out:
- C. Zhang, A. Bonifati and M.T. Özsu. Indexing Techniques for Graph Reachability Queries, ACM Computing Surveys, 2025.
- Zeynep's work from her PhD thesis got accepted to PVLDB 2025 and presented at VLDB 2025 in London, UK:
- Z. Korkmaz, M.T. Özsu, and K. Daudjee. Locality-Aware Cache Replacement Policy for Graph Traversals, Proc. VLDB Endowment, 2025.
- Harrum Noor graduated (MMath; April 2025) with a thesis entitled “What Do You Mean? Using Large Language Models for Semantic Evaluation of NL2SQL Queries”
- Sairaj's work from his Master's thesis got accepted to SIGMOD 2025:
- S. Voruganti and M.T. Özsu. MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search, Proc. ACM Manag. Data (SIGMOD) 3(3): Article 188, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3725325.
- Sairaj Voruganti graduated (MMath; April 2025) with a thesis entitled “MIRAGE-ANNS: Mixed Approach Graph-based Indexing for Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search”
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