Amir Shaikhha
Amir is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the design and implementation of data-analytics systems by using techniques from the databases, programming languages, compilers, and machine learning communities. Prior to that, he was a Departmental Lecturer at Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. from EPFL in 2018, for which he was awarded a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in structured data analysis, as well as a Ph.D. thesis distinction award. He has won the Best Paper Award at GPCE 2017 and the Most Reproducible Paper Award at SIGMOD 2017. He (co-)chaired the program committees of DBPL 2021, Scala 2022, DRAGSTERS 2023, and GPCE 2023.
Recent News
- March 2024. Jingwen and Callum were awarded the 1st place in CGO student research competition.
- November 2023. Our paper on optimizing nested recursive queries accepted to SIGMOD 2024.
- October 2023. We will present our work on probablistic programming in LAFI 2024.
- August 2023. Our paper on automatic differentiation for sparse tensors accepted to appear at CGO 2024.
- July 2023. Our paper on structured tensor algebra accepted to OOPSLA 2023.
- June 2023. The demonstration for OpenDBML accepted to appear at VLDB 2023.
- May 2023. I was selected for a Best Reviewer Award in SIGMOD 2023.
- April 2023. The demonstration for SDQL.py accepted to appear at SIGMOD 2023.
- March 2023. I will serve as the PC Chair of GPCE 2023; consider submitting a paper.
- February 2023. Our work on combining prefetching with vectorization for hash tables accepted to appear at ECOOP 2023.
- January 2023. I will be co-chairing DRAGSTERS’23. Consider submitting a paper.
- December 2022. Two papers accepted in CC 2023: BayesTensor and SDQL.py.
- November 2022. Our work on using machine learning for data structure selection accepted to appear at CGO 2023.
- October 2022. Our work on Deep Loop Fusion accepted to appear at GPCE 2022.
- August 2022. STOREL for tensor processing on flexible storage accepted to SIGMOD 2023.
Publications
You can find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.
Awards
- [Student: Callum Groeger] 1st place in undergraduate student research competition, CGO 2024.
- [Student: Jingwen Pan] 1st place in graduate student research competition, CGO 2024.
- Best Reviewer Award, SIGMOD 2023.
- Nominated for Best Supervisor of the Year, University of Edinburgh, 2022.
- Ph.D. Thesis Distinction Award, EPFL, 2018.
- Service Award, IC EPFL, 2018.
- Best Paper Award, GPCE 2017.
- Most Reproducible Paper Award, SIGMOD 2017.
- Google Ph.D. Fellowship, 2017.
- Teaching Assistant Award, IC EPFL, 2016.
Service
- Chairing: GPCE’23 (PC Chair), DRAGSTERS’23 (Co-Chair), Scala’22 (PC Chair), DBPL’21 (Co-Chair).
- Organization: CGO’24 (Finance Chair), ICDE’24 (PC), VLDB’23 (PC), SIGMOD’23 (PC), GPCE’22 (PC), TFP’22 (PC), DBAI’21 (PC), BICOD’21 (PC), ASPLOS’20 (ERC), DBPL’19 (PC).
- Reviewer: TODS 2023, TODS 2021, VLDBJ 2020, TODS 2018.
- PhD Students’ Representative: IC EPFL, 2017-2018.
- Member of EPIC PhD Student Association: IC EPFL, 2017.
Students
- Mahdi Ghorbani, Ph.D. (2021-)
- Hesam Shahrokhi, Ph.D. (2021-)
- Shideh Heshemian, Ph.D. (2023-)
- Jingwen Pan, Ph.D. (2023-)
- Meisam Tarabkhah, Ph.D. (2023-)
- Pei Mu, Ph.D. (2023-, Co-supervisor: Antonio Barbalace)
- Amirali Kaboli, MRes. (2023-)
- Alexandre Lopoukhine, Ph.D. (2023-, Main Supervisor: Tobias Grosser - Univ. of Cambridge)
Positions
I have an open position for MScR (Master by Research) in my lab. The topic is around databases and compilers. Please send me an email with your CV if you are interested.