Team
The Concordia Data Systems (CoDS) Lab: one postdoctoral researcher, five PhD students and one MSc student, each attached to a thrust of the research program.
Current members
| Name | Role | Topic | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Abdelghny Orogat MAFBench, MemState, Chatty-KG |
Postdoctoral researcher | The role of agentic AI in enterprise systems | 2025 to present |
| Ahmed Aly OCR-APT, MEGR-APT |
PhD | Agent security (with Amr Youssef) | to 2027 |
| Waleed Afandi KG-WISE, KGNet |
PhD | Graph foundation models for agents | to 2027 |
| Yomna Gharib | PhD | Agentic security | 2026 to 2030 |
| Loubna Guelmani | PhD | Agent harness and long-term memory | 2026 to 2030 |
| Qizhi Wang | PhD | Validation of agent-generated code | 2026 to 2030 |
| Farbod Aminnezhad | MSc | Action contracts | 2026 to 2028 |
Three PhD students and one MSc student joined in September 2026.
Graduated PhD students
Where they are now, and what they built here.
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Hussein Abdallah
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mila–McGill
At CoDS: KGNet (ICDE 2024), KG-WISE (ICDE 2026), LLM–GNN open-world QA (EACL 2026)
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Mossad Helali
Now: AI Applied Scientist, Verily (Alphabet)
At CoDS: KGLiDS (ICDE 2024), RAGvis (EMNLP 2025), scalable AutoML with IBM Research (VLDB 2022)
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Saeed Fathollahzadeh
Now: Postdoctoral Scholar, Data Intelligence Lab, University of Waterloo
At CoDS: CatDB (VLDB 2025), ReSequel (VLDB 2026)
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Reham Omar
At CoDS: KGQAn (SIGMOD 2023), Chatty-Gen (SIGMOD 2025), Chatty-KG (SIGMOD 2026)
Master’s and undergraduate graduates
| Name | Degree | Year | Now | At CoDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Omijkumar Mangukiya | MSc | IBM Canada | Chatty-Gen, Chatty-KG | |
| Niki Monjazeb | MSc | Desjardins | KGLiDS | |
| Shubham Vashisth | MSc | 2023 | PhD student, McGill | KGLiDS |
| Ishika Dhall | MSc | 2023 | National Bank of Canada | KGQAn |
| Ahmed Helal | MSc | 2021 | Snowflake | KGLiDS, KGLac demo (VLDB 2021) |
| Philippe Carrier | Undergraduate | 2023 | Software Engineer, Amazon | KGLiDS |
| Yasaman Sabbagh | Undergraduate | 2022 | PhD student, McGill |
Join the lab
See contact and recruitment for what the lab looks for.