• Exploring the Duality Between Large Language Models and Database Systems
  • Keynote presentation at Dagstuhl Workshop on Large Language Models Meet Knowledge Graphs, 4-9 October 2026, Dagstuhl, Germany.
  • Keynote presentation at LLM+Graph - 2nd International Workshop on Data Management Opportunities in Bringing LLMs with Graph Data, collocated with VLDB 2025, .1 September 2025, London, UK.
  • SAP, Waterloo, 9 July 2025.
• Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Choices of Small States: Locating the Real Decisions
  • Keynote at 8th International Scientific Conference of Economics and Management Researchers, 21-23 May 2026, Baku, Azerbaijan (remotely delivered)
• Exploring the Connections Between Social Network Analysis and Graph Analytics
  • Keynote at 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering, 17-21 September 2025, Istanbul, Türkiye (remotely delivered).
  • Keynote at The 4th International Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics, collocated with VLDB 2025, 5 September 2025, London, UK.
  • Keynote presentation at 17th International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 25–28 August 2025, Niagara Falls, Canada.
• MIRAGE: A Fast and Scalable Graph-Based Index for Vector Search
  • Peking University, China, 20 January 2026 (remotely delivered).
  • Huawei Global Software Technology Summit, Markham, Canada, 4 November 2025.
  • Istanbul Technical University, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Center, Istanbul, Türkiye, 3 July 2025.
• Disaggregated and Heterogeneous Platform for Data Management
  • Tsinghua University, School of Software, China, December 2023
  • SiftDB 2023 - Symposium on Frontiers in Databases, Hulunbuir, China, June 2023
• A Systematic View of Data Science
  • Balsillie School of International Affairs Summer School on Technology Governance, August 2023
  • Data Systems Meet Data Science Workshop, Montreal, June 2023.
  • Seoul National University, Korea, May 2022
  • Simon Fraser University Seminar Series on Trustworthy Data Science and AI, 27 April 2022. Poster announcing the talk
  • Peking University, China, January 2022
  • Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco, January 2022
  • POSTECH, Korea, February 2022
  • Tsinghua University, China, December 2021
  • Polytechnic University of Hong Kong Research Centre on Data Science and AI, June 2021.
  • Istanbul Technical University Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Center, June 2021.
• Data Engineering for Data Science
  • Balsillie School of International Affairs Summer School on Technology Governance, August 2023
• Distributed RDF Data Management and SPARQL Query Processing
  • Keynote at 5th APWeb-WAIM International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, August 2021.
  • Hunan University, China, August 2021.
  • Stanford Knowledge Graph Seminar, April 2021.
• Streaming Graph Processing and Analytics
  • 2023 Bund Summit -- 2nd International Forum on Graph Intelligence, Shanghai, China,September 2023.
  • Huawei Science and Technology Week, September 2022.
  • Keynote at 14th International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems, 2020.
• Graph Processing: A Panaromic View and Some open Problems
  • Keynote at 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2019.
  • Dagstuhl Workshop on Big Graph Processing System , 2019 (shorter version)
  • Peking University, China, 2020 (The video is of this presentation)
  • Tsinghua University, China, 2020.
• An Introduction to Graph Analytics Platform - Very Short Version
  • Keynote at VLDB 2018 workshop on Advances in Mining Large-Scale Time-Dependent Graphs, 2018.
• Web Data Management in RDF Age, Keynote at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2017.
• Approaches to RDF Data Management and SPARQL Query Processing, INRIA, 2017.