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MAFBench accepted at SIGMOD 2027
“Architectural Design, Not Only Model Intelligence, Governs Multi-Agent LLM Performance”: a controlled study of nine multi-agent LLM frameworks at fixed LLM and task, yielding an architectural taxonomy over five dimensions and six evidence-based design principles.
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Demonstration Chair of VLDB 2027
Essam Mansour will serve as Demonstration Chair for VLDB 2027, alongside his term as General Chair of IEEE ICDE 2026.
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Three PhD students and one MSc student join CoDS
Yomna Gharib, Loubna Guelmani and Qizhi Wang (PhD) and Farbod Aminnezhad (MSc) start in September 2026, working on agent security, governed memory, validation of agent-generated code, and action contracts.
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ReSequel: robust LLM-assisted query rewriting, at VLDB 2026
With Saeed Fathollahzadeh and Matthias Boehm. Up to 16× faster than native PostgreSQL, MySQL and DuckDB across eight benchmarks.
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General Chair of IEEE ICDE 2026, Montreal
Essam Mansour served as General Chair with Fei Chiang, and joined the panel “What can agents do for databases?” with Fatma Özcan, Wenjie Zhang, Aditya Parameswaran and Bolin Ding.
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Vision paper: “Is Agent Memory a Database?”
Governed Evolving Memory for long-term agents, with a prototype on a property-graph backend (MemState).
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Dagstuhl Seminar 26161: Managing Vector Data for RAG
Invited participant and technical lead; led the Agentic Systems cross-topic session.
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Chatty-KG at SIGMOD 2026 and KG-WISE at ICDE 2026
Conversational question answering over knowledge graphs, and LLM-guided query-aware GNN inference.
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Saeed Fathollahzadeh and Reham Omar complete their PhDs
Saeed (co-supervised with Matthias Boehm) is now a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Waterloo.
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NRC Canada project on secure knowledge sharing and agentic threat detection
Three-year collaboration (2025 to 2028) with the National Research Council Canada for the digitized construction industry.
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Papers at CCS, EMNLP, VLDB and SIGMOD 2025
OCR-APT (CCS), RAGvis (EMNLP, main conference), CatDB (VLDB) and Chatty-Gen (SIGMOD).