Current members
Postdoctoral researcher
- Dr. Abdelghny Orogat The role of agentic AI in enterprise systemsWork: MAFBench, MemState, Chatty-KG 2025 to present
PhD students
- Ahmed Aly Agent securityCo-supervised with Amr YoussefWork: OCR-APT, MEGR-APT to 2027
- Waleed Afandi Graph foundation models for agentsCo-supervised with Ashraf AboulnagaWork: KG-WISE, KGNet to 2027
- Yomna Gharib Agentic securityCo-supervised with Amr Youssef 2026 to 2030
- Loubna Guelmani Agent harness and long-term memory 2026 to 2030
- Qizhi Wang Sustainable and trustworthy agentic specialization of database engines and enterprise data workflows 2026 to 2030
Master’s student
- Farbod Aminnezhad Action contracts 2026 to 2028
Undergraduate researcher
- Ana Rostam Agentic workflow automationCo-supervised with Dr. Abdelghny OrogatWork: MAFBench
Three PhD students and one MSc student joined in September 2026.
Graduated PhD students
- Hussein Abdallah PhD 2025, thesis graded OutstandingAt CoDS: KGNet (ICDE 2023), KGTOSA (ICDE 2024), KG-WISE (ICDE 2026), LLM–GNN open-world QA (EACL 2026) Postdoctoral Fellow, Mila–McGill
- Mossad Helali PhD 2025, thesis graded ExcellentAt CoDS: KGLiDS (ICDE 2024), RAGvis (EMNLP 2025), scalable AutoML with IBM Research (VLDB 2022) AI Applied Scientist, Verily (Alphabet)
- Saeed Fathollahzadeh PhD 2026, co-supervised with Matthias BoehmAt CoDS: CatDB (VLDB 2025), ReSequel (VLDB 2026) Postdoctoral Scholar, Data Intelligence Lab, University of Waterloo
- Reham Omar PhD 2026, thesis graded OutstandingAt CoDS: KGQAn (SIGMOD 2023), Chatty-Gen (SIGMOD 2025), Chatty-KG (SIGMOD 2026)
Master’s and undergraduate graduates
- Omijkumar Mangukiya MScAt CoDS: Chatty-Gen, Chatty-KG Software Engineer, AI/Data, IBM Canada Software Lab, Toronto
- Niki Monjazeb MScAt CoDS: KGLiDS Data Scientist, Desjardins
- Shubham Vashisth MSc 2023At CoDS: KGLiDS PhD student, McGill
- Ishika Dhall MSc 2023At CoDS: KGQAn Senior AI Scientist, National Bank of Canada
- Ahmed Helal MSc 2021At CoDS: KGLiDS, KGLac demo (VLDB 2021) Software Engineer, Snowflake
- Philippe Carrier Undergraduate 2023At CoDS: KGLiDS Software Engineer, Amazon
- Yasaman Sabbagh Undergraduate 2022 PhD student, McGill
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