Portrait

Oktie Hassanzadeh is a Senior Research Scientist at IBM, working at the intersection of data management, knowledge graphs, and AI. His work focuses on large-scale data integration, semantic data discovery, and enabling large language models to reason over structured enterprise data. He has authored more than 160 publications and is an inventor on more than 30 patent applications, with contributions spanning data lakes, semantic technologies, text-to-SQL evaluation, and knowledge-driven AI systems. His recognitions include Best Paper awards at ESWC, a Best System Demonstration Award at ICAPS, first prize at the ISWC Semantic Web Challenge, membership in the winning team of the FinCausal Shared Task, and two first prizes at the SEMANTiCS Triplification Challenge. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, where he received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship and the Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award. He co-organizes the TaDA workshop at VLDB and the SemTab challenge at ISWC, and regularly serves on program committees and review boards for leading venues including VLDB, IJCAI, AAAI, and ISWC.

  • 160+ publications including 70+ top-quality peer-reviewed conference and journal articles and 32 patent applications (issued and pending)
  • 21 years of research in Computer Science
  • 26 years of experience in software development
  • Recipient of several IBM corporate awards and various academic prizes and awards
  • Extensive experience in supervising research projects and mentoring software engineers and graduate students
  • Holder of Teaching in Higher Education (THE500) Certificate from University of Toronto
  • Graduate of Advanced MicroMBA Course (IBM)
  • Lecturer in Professional Studies, Columbia University

Research Interests

  • Large-Scale Data Integration, Data Discovery, Data Exploration, and Data Curation
  • Text-to-SQL, Semantic Query Processing Engines, and AI-Native Data Systems
  • Benchmarking and Evaluation of LLM-Based Systems for Structured Enterprise Data
  • Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, Linked Data, and Automated Knowledge Base Construction

Recent Roles

Senior Research Scientist

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

2011-12 - present · Yorktown Heights, NY

Leading research directions and building systems at the intersection of structured data, knowledge graphs, and AI/LLMs. Combines academic impact (best paper and best demonstration awards at top CS/AI/DM venues), system building (production deployments recognized through repeated IBM Research Accomplishment awards), and research leadership of multi-year programs and community-defining challenges.

Lecturer in Professional Studies

Columbia University

2025-09 - 2025-12 · New York, NY

Taught APAN 5400 — Fundamentals of Data Engineering, a core graduate course of Columbia's School of Professional Studies Applied Analytics program.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Toronto

M.Sc. in Computer Science

University of Toronto

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering — Dual Majors in Software Engineering and Hardware Engineering

Sharif University of Technology

Publications & Patents

165 entries

Sorted by year (newest first), including patents, with descending numbering.

No. Title Authors Venue Year Links
#165

When Text-to-SQL Evaluation Misleads: Rethinking Benchmarking Practices

O. Hassanzadeh, N. Pham, T. Dinger, T. Kaple, L. Vu, M. Glass, S. Subramanian IEEE ICDE (Extended Abstract) 2026
#164

Text-to-SQL Evaluation Toolkit

O. Hassanzadeh, Y. Perlitz, N. Pham, T. Kaple, K. Zrobek, L. Vu, M. Glass, D. Subramanian, M. Pourreza, D. Rafiei Under submission 2026
#163

Towards Universal Tabular Embeddings: A Benchmark Across Data Tasks

L. Vogel, K. Srinivas, N. S. D'Souza, S. Shirai, O. Hassanzadeh, H. Samulowitz CoRR/arXiv 2026
#162

TabSketchFM: Sketch-based Tabular Representation Learning for Data Discovery over Data Lakes

A. Khatiwada, H. Kokel, I. Abdelaziz, S. Chaudhury, J. Dolby, O. Hassanzadeh, Z. Huang, T. Pedapati, H. Samulowitz, K. Srinivas IEEE ICDE 2025
#161

Knowledge Base Construction for Knowledge-Augmented Text-to-SQL

J. Baek, H. Samulowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, D. Subramanian, S. Shirai, A. Gliozzo, D. Bhattacharjya Findings of ACL 2025
#160

KG2Tables: A Domain-Specific Tabular Data Generator to Evaluate Semantic Table Interpretation Systems (Resource Paper)

N. Abdelmageed, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, B. König-Ries Trans. Graph Data Knowl. 2025
#159

TOPJoin: A Context-Aware Multi-Criteria Approach for Joinable Column Search

H. Kokel, A. Khatiwada, T. Pedapati, H. Ananthakrishnan, O. Hassanzadeh, H. Samulowitz, K. Srinivas TaDA Workshop @ VLDB 2025
#158

Joint Proceedings of Industry, Doctoral Consortium, Posters and Demos of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-C 2025)

I. Celino, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Bernstein, N. F. Noy, G. Cheng, S. Wang, S. Ferrada, T. Soulard, K. Kozaki, H. Takeda, A. Gentile CEUR Workshop Proceedings 4085, CEUR-WS.org (Nara, Japan, Nov 2-6) 2025
#157

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching co-located with the 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024) (SemTab 2024)

O. Hassanzadeh, M. Cremaschi, V. Cutrona, F. D'Adda, V. Efthymiou, B. Kruit, E. A. Lobo, N. H. Pham CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3889, CEUR-WS.org (Baltimore, USA, Nov 13) 2025
#156

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2024 (OM-2024)

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn, S. Hertling, H. Li, P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3897, CEUR-WS.org (Baltimore, USA, Nov 11) 2025
#155

Results of SemTab 2025

O. Hassanzadeh, M. Cremaschi, F. D'Adda, F. J. Azanzi, J. P. BIKIM, E. Jimenez-Ruiz OM@ISWC 2025
#154

Link Prediction Using an Ensemble of Representations and Rules

A. Khatiwada, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Shirai US Patent Application. Filed September 2025 2025
#153

Knowledge Generation for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases

A. M. Gliozzo, D. Subramanian, H. C. Samulowitz, J. Baek, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Shirai US Patent Application. Filed May 2025 2025
#152

Focused Natural Language Question Generation for Database Exploration

A. M. Gliozzo, D. Subramanian, G. Rossiello, L. Amini, L. H. Vu, M. F. M. Chowdhury, M. R. Glass, N. H. Pham, O. Hassanzadeh, T. Kaple, T. R. Dinger US Patent Application. Filed March 2025 2025
#151

CHRONOS: A Schema-Based Event Understanding and Prediction System

M. Chang, A. Fokoue-nkoutche, R. Uceda-sosa, P. Awasthy, K. Barker, S. Kumaravel, O. Hassanzadeh, E. Figueiredo De Souza Soares, T. Gao, D. Bhattacharjya, H. Florian, S. Roukos IAAI 2024
#150

Distilling Event Sequence Knowledge From Large Language Models

S. Wadhwa, O. Hassanzadeh, D. Bhattacharjya, K. Barker, J. Ni ISWC 2024
#149

WikiCausal: Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Causal Knowledge Graph Construction

O. Hassanzadeh ISWC Posters/Demos 2024
#148

KG2Tables: Your way to generate an STI benchmark for your domain

N. Abdelmageed, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, B. König-Ries ISWC Posters/Demos 2024
#147

Knowledge Graphs in Pharmacovigilance: A Scoping Review

M. Hauben, M. Rafi, I. Abdelaziz, O. Hassanzadeh Clinical Therapeutics 2024
#146

2nd International Workshop on Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA)

V. Efthymiou, S. Galhotra, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Lei, K. Srinivas VLDB Workshops 2024
#145

Results of SemTab 2024

O. Hassanzadeh, N. Abdelmageed, M. Cremaschi, V. Cutrona, F. D'Adda, V. Efthymiou, B. Kruit, E. Lobo, N. Mihindukulasooriya, N. H. Pham SemTab@ISWC 2024
#144

Large-scale Schema Discovery for Lakehouses

A. M. Gliozzo, D. K. I. Weidele, G. Rossiello, M. F. M. Chowdhury, M. R. Glass, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Bagchi US Patent Application. Filed May 2024 2024
#143

Pairwise Causality Guided Transformers for Event Sequences

X. Shou, D. Bhattacharjya, T. Gao, S. Subramanian, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Bennett NeurIPS 2023
#142

Event Prediction using Case-Based Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs

S. Shirai, D. Bhattacharjya, O. Hassanzadeh WWW 2023
#141

Probabilistic Rule Induction from Event Sequences with Logical Summary Markov Models

D. Bhattacharjya, O. Hassanzadeh, R. Luss, K. Murugesan IJCAI 2023
#140

Probabilistic Attention-to-Influence Neural Models for Event Sequences

X. Shou, D. Bhattacharjya, T. Gao, D. Subramanian, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Bennett ICML 2023
#139

An analysis of one-to-one matching algorithms for entity resolution

G. Papadakis, V. Efthymiou, E. Thanos, O. Hassanzadeh, P. Christen VLDB J. 2023
#138

Unleashing the Potential of Data Lakes with Semantic Enrichment using Foundation Models

N. Mihindukulasooriya, S. Dash, S. Bagchi, F. Chowdhury, G. Rossiello, A. Gliozzo, A. Farkash, M. Glass, I. Gokhman, O. Hassanzadeh, N. Pham, B. Rozenberg, Y. Sagron, S. Subramanian, T. Takahashi, T. Tateishi, L. Vu ISWC Industry Track 2023
#137

Conversational GUI for Semantic Automation Layer

D. K. I. Weidele, G. Rossiello, G. Bramble, A. N. Valente, S. Bagchi, Md. F. M. Chowdhury, M. Martino, N. Mihindukulasooriya, H. Ananthakrishnan, H. Strobelt, H. Patel, A. M. Gliozzo, O. Cornec, A. Gupta, S. Mehta, M. Kesarwani, H. Samulowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Agarwal, L. Amini ISWC Industry Track 2023
#136

A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Knowledge-Based Event Prediction

S. Shirai, D. Bhattacharjya, O. Hassanzadeh ISWC Demo Track 2023
#135

Matching Table Metadata with Business Glossaries Using Large Language Models

E. Lobo, O. Hassanzadeh, N. Pham, N. Mihindukulasooriya, D. Subramanian, H. Samulowitz OM@ISWC 2023
#134

An Evaluation Framework for Mapping News Headlines to Event Classes in a Knowledge Graph

S. F. Mbouadeu, M. E. Lorenzo, K. Barker, O. Hassanzadeh CASE @ RANLP 2023
#133

LakeBench: Benchmarks for Data Discovery over Data Lakes

K. Srinivas, J. Dolby, I. Abdelaziz, O. Hassanzadeh, H. Kokel, A. Khatiwada, T. Pedapati, S. Chaudhury, H. Samulowitz CoRR/arXiv 2023
#132

Open Government Data Corpus for Table Search

M. Glass, S. Bagchi, O. Hassanzadeh, G. Rossiello, A. Gliozzo CoRR/arXiv 2023
#131

Improving Neural Ranking Models with Traditional IR Methods

A. Saha, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Gittens, J. Ni, K. Srinivas, B. Yener CoRR/arXiv 2023
#130

A Cross-Domain Evaluation of Approaches for Causal Knowledge Extraction

A. Saha, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Gittens, J. Ni, K. Srinivas, B. Yener CoRR/arXiv 2023
#129

Joint Proceedings of Workshops at the 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023)

R. Bordawekar, C. Cappiello, V. Efthymiou, L. Ehrlinger, V. Gadepally, S. Galhotra, S. Geisler, S. Groppe, L. Gruenwald, A. Y. Halevy, H. Harmouch, O. Hassanzadeh, I. F. Ilyas, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, S. Krishnan, T. Lahiri, G. Li, J. Lu, W. Mauerer, U. Farooq Minhas, F. Naumann, M. T. Özsu, E. Rezig, K. Srinivas, M. Stonebraker, S. R. Valluri, M. Vidal, H. Wang, J. Wang, Y. Wu, X. Xue, M. Zaït, K. Zeng CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3462, CEUR-WS.org (Vancouver, Canada, Aug 28 - Sep 1) 2023
#128

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching, SemTab 2023, co-located with ISWC 2023

V. Efthymiou, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, J. Chen, V. Cutrona, O. Hassanzadeh, J. Sequeda, K. Srinivas, N. Abdelmageed, M. Hulsebos, A. Khatiwada, K. Korini, B. Kruit CEUR Workshop Proceedings 3557, CEUR-WS.org (Athens, Greece, Nov 6-10) 2023
#127

Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2023 (OM@ISWC 2023)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2023
#126

Results of SemTab 2023

O. Hassanzadeh, N. Abdelmageed, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen, V. Cutrona, M. Hulsebos, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, A. Khatiwada, K. Korini, B. Kruit, J. Sequeda, K. Srinivas SemTab@ISWC 2023
#125

Preface: Tabular Data Analysis Workshop (TaDA)

V. Efthymiou, O. Hassanzadeh, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, K. Srinivas VLDB Workshops 2023
#124

Summary Markov Models for Event Sequences

D. Bhattacharjya, S. Sihag, O. Hassanzadeh, L. Bialik IJCAI 2022
#123

Knowledge-Based News event Analysis and Forecasting Toolkit

O. Hassanzadeh, P. Awasthy, K. Barker, O. Bhardwaj, D. Bhattacharjya, M. Feblowitz, L. Martie, J. Ni, K. Srinivas, L. Yip IJCAI Demonstration Track 2022
#122

Knowledge-Based News Event Analysis Toolkit

O. Hassanzadeh, P. Awasthy, K. Barker, O. Bhardwaj, D. Bhattacharjya, M. Feblowitz, A. Khatiwada, L. Martie, S. F. Mbouadeu, J. Ni, A. Saha, S. Shirai, K. Srinivas, L. Yip ISWC Industry Track 2022
#121

Bipartite Graph Matching Algorithms for Clean-Clean Entity Resolution: An Empirical Evaluation

G. Papadakis, V. Efthymiou, E. Thanos, O. Hassanzadeh EDBT 2022
#120

SPOCK at FinCausal 2022: Causal Information Extraction Using Span-Based and Sequence Tagging Models

A. Saha, J. Ni, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Gittens, K. Srinivas, B. Yener FinCausal @ LREC (Winning Team) 2022
#119

Rule-Based Link Prediction over Event-Related Causal Knowledge in Wikidata

S. Shirai, A. Khatiwada, O. Hassanzadeh, D. Bhattacharjya Wikidata Workshop @ ISWC 2022
#118

Knowledge graph embeddings for causal relation prediction

A. Khatiwada, S. Shirai, K. Srinivas, O. Hassanzadeh DL4KG @ ISWC 2022
#117

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching (SemTab 2022) co-located with ISWC 2022

V. Efthymiou, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, J. Chen, V. Cutrona, O. Hassanzadeh, J. Sequeda, K. Srinivas, N. Abdelmageed, M. Hulsebos CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2022
#116

Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2022 (OM@ISWC 2022)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2022
#115

Open Knowledge Network Roadmap – Powering the next data revolution

C. Baru, et al. NSF Report (September) 2022
#114

IBM Scenario Planning Advisor: A Neuro-Symbolic ERM Solution

M. Feblowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Katz, S. Sohrabi, K. Srinivas, O. Udrea AAAI (Demonstration) 2021
#113

Predicting the Future with Wikidata and Wikipedia

O. Hassanzadeh ISWC Demonstration 2021
#112

IBM Scenario Planning Advisor: A Neuro-Symbolic ERM Solution

M. Feblowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Katz, S. Sohrabi, K. Srinivas, O. Udrea AAAI Demonstration 2021
#111

Unsupervised Causal Knowledge Extraction from Text using Natural Language Inference

M. Bhandari, M. Feblowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Srinivas, S. Sohrabi AAAI Student Abstract 2021
#110

Building a Knowledge Graph of Events and Consequences Using Wikidata

O. Hassanzadeh Wikidata Workshop @ ISWC 2021
#109

Scenario Planning In The Wild: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach

M. Katz, K. Srinivas, S. Sohrabi, M. Feblowitz, O. Udrea, O. Hassanzadeh SPARK @ ICAPS 2021
#108

Towards a Framework for Data Excellence in Data-Centric AI: Lessons from the Semantic Web

O. Seneviratne, O. Hassanzadeh, D. Gruen, J. P. McCusker, D. McGuinness NeurIPS DCAI Workshop 2021
#107

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching (SemTab 2021) co-located with ISWC 2021

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen, K. Srinivas, V. Cutrona CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2021
#106

Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2021 (OM@ISWC 2021)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2021
#105

Results of SemTab 2021

V. Cutrona, J. Chen, V. Efthymiou, O. Hassanzadeh, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, J. Sequeda, K. Srinivas, N. Abdelmageed, M. Hulsebos, D. Oliveira, C. Pesquita SemTab@ISWC 2021
#104

Unsupervised Causal Knowledge Extraction from Text

M. Bhandari, M. Feblowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Srinivas, S. Sohrabi US Patent Application. Filed June 2021 2021
#103

Automated Scenario Generation from Text

M. Katz, K. Srinivas, S. Sohrabi, M. Feblowitz, O. Udrea, O. Hassanzadeh US Patent Application. Filed March 2021 2021
#102

Causal Knowledge Extraction through Large-Scale Text Mining

O. Hassanzadeh, D. Bhattacharjya, M. Feblowitz, K. Srinivas, M. Perrone, S. Sohrabi, M. Katz AAAI (Demonstration) 2020
#101

IBM Scenario Planning Advisor: A Neuro-Symbolic ERM solution

M. Feblowitz, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Katz, S. Sohrabi, K. Srinivas, O. Udrea ICAPS System Demonstration (Best System Demonstration Award) 2020
#100

SemTab 2019: Resources to Benchmark Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching Systems

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen, K. Srinivas ESWC 2020
#99

Interactive Planning-Based Hypothesis Generation with LTS++

S. Sohrabi, O. Udrea, A. Riabov, O. Hassanzadeh Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning 2020
#98

A minimal information model for potential drug-drug interactions

H. Hochheiser, X. Jing, E. Garcia, S. Ayvaz, R. Sahay, M. Dumontier, J. M. Banda, O. Beyan, M. Brochhausen, E. Draper, S. Habiel, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Herrero-Zazo, B. Hocum, J. Horn, B. Lebaron, D. C. Malone, Ø. Nytrø, T. Reese, K. Romagnoli, J. Schneider, L. Y. Zhang, R. D. Boyce Frontiers in Pharmacology 2020
#97

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching (SemTab 2020) co-located with ISWC 2020

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen, K. Srinivas, V. Cutrona CEUR Workshop Proceedings (November 5) 2020
#96

Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2020 (OM@ISWC 2020)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2788, CEUR-WS.org 2020
#95

Proceedings of the Semantic Web Challenge on Tabular Data to Knowledge Graph Matching co-located with ISWC 2019 (SemTab@ISWC 2019)

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Srinivas, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2553, CEUR-WS.org (Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 30) 2020
#94

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2019 (OM@ISWC 2019)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Trojahn CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2536, CEUR-WS.org (Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 26) 2020
#93

Results of SemTab 2020

E. Jiménez-Ruiz, O. Hassanzadeh, V. Efthymiou, J. Chen, K. Srinivas, V. Cutrona SemTab@ISWC 2020
#92

Answering Binary Causal Questions Through Large-Scale Text Mining: An Evaluation Using Cause-Effect Pairs from Human Experts

O. Hassanzadeh, D. Bhattacharjya, M. D. Feblowitz, K. Srinivas, M. Perrone, S. Sohrabi, M. Katz IJCAI 2019
#91

IBM Scenario Planning Advisor: Plan recognition as AI planning in practice

S. Sohrabi, M. Katz, O. Hassanzadeh, O. Udrea, M. D. Feblowitz, A. Riabov AI Commun. 2019
#90

Automated Feature Enhancement for Predictive Modeling using External Knowledge

S. Galhotra, U. Khurana, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Srinivas, H. Samulowitz, M. Qi ICDM Demonstration Track 2019
#89

KAFE: Automated Feature Enhancement for Predictive Modeling using External Knowledge

S. Galhotra, U. Khurana, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Srinivas, H. Samulowitz KR2ML @ NeurIPS 2019
#88

Causal Knowledge Extraction from Text

O. Hassanzadeh, D. Bhattacharjya, M. D. Feblowitz, K. Srinivas, M. Perrone, S. Sohrabi, M. Katz US Patent Application. Filed June 2019 2019
#87

Semantic Concept Discovery over Event Databases

O. Hassanzadeh, S. Trewin, A. Gliozzo ESWC (Best In-Use Track Paper Award) 2018
#86

IBM Scenario Planning Advisor: Plan Recognition as AI Planning in Practice

S. Sohrabi, M. Katz, O. Hassanzadeh, O. Udrea, M. D. Feblowitz IJCAI (Runner-Up Best Demo Award) 2018
#85

Inducing Implicit Relations from Text Using Distantly Supervised Deep Nets

M. Glass, A. Gliozzo, O. Hassanzadeh, N. Mihindukulasooriya, G. Rossiello ISWC 2018
#84

Ontology Augmentation Through Matching with Web Tables

O. Lehmberg, O. Hassanzadeh OM Workshop 2018
#83

Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Ontology Matching co-located with ISWC 2018 (OM@ISWC 2018)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, M. Cheatham, O. Hassanzadeh, R. Ichise CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2288, CEUR-WS.org (Monterey, CA, USA, Oct 8) 2018
#82

Semantic Concept Discovery over Event Databases

O. Hassanzadeh, S. Trewin, A. Gliozzo US Patent Application. Filed October 2018 2018
#81

High-Quality Knowledge Base Construction Through Comprehensive Noise Detection

N. Mihindukulasooriya, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Dash, A. Gliozzo US Patent Application. Filed September 2018 2018
#80

Large-scale structural and textual similarity-based mining of knowledge graph to predict drug-drug interactions

I. Abdelaziz, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, P. Zhang, M. Sadoghi J. Web Semant. 2017
#79

Matching Web Tables with Knowledge Base Entities: From Entity Lookups to Entity Embeddings

V. Efthymiou, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Rodriguez-Muro, V. Christophides ISWC 2017
#78

Semantic Concept Discovery Over Event Data

O. Hassanzadeh, S. Trewin, A. Gliozzo ISWC Industry Track 2017
#77

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC 2017 (OM@ISWC 2017)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, M. Cheatham, O. Hassanzadeh, R. Ichise CEUR Workshop Proceedings 2032, CEUR-WS.org (Vienna, Austria, Oct 21) 2017
#76

Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions Through Large-Scale Similarity-Based Link Prediction

A. Fokoue, M. Sadoghi, O. Hassanzadeh, P. Zhang ESWC (Best In-Use Track Paper Award) 2016
#75

Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions Through Similarity-Based Link Prediction Over Web Data

A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sadoghi, P. Zhang WWW Companion 2016
#74

Self-Curating Databases

M. Sadoghi, K. Srinivas, O. Hassanzadeh, Y. Chang, M. Canim, A. Fokoue, Y. Feldman EDBT 2016
#73

Tiresias: Knowledge Engineering and Large-Scale Machine Learning for Interpretable Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction

A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sadoghi, P. Zhang AMIA System Demonstration 2016
#72

Towards Large-Scale Predictive Drug Safety: A Computational Framework for Inferring Drug Interactions Through Similarity-Based Link Prediction

A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sadoghi, P. Zhang AMIA Poster 2016
#71

Joint Learning of Local and Global Features for Entity Linking via Neural Networks

T. H. Nguyen, N. R. Fauceglia, M. Rodriguez-Muro, O. Hassanzadeh, A. M. Gliozzo, M. Sadoghi COLING 2016
#70

Finding Diverse High-Quality Plans for Hypothesis Generation

S. Sohrabi, A. V. Riabov, O. Udrea, O. Hassanzadeh ECAI 2016
#69

Interactive Planning-Based Hypothesis Generation with LTS++

S. Sohrabi, A. V. Riabov, O. Udrea, O. Hassanzadeh IJCAI 2016
#68

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC 2016 (OM@ISWC 2016)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, M. Cheatham, O. Hassanzadeh, R. Ichise CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1766 (Kobe, Japan, Oct 18) 2016
#67

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC 2015 (OM@ISWC 2015)

P. Shvaiko, J. Euzenat, E. Jiménez-Ruiz, M. Cheatham, O. Hassanzadeh CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1545 (Bethlehem, PA, USA, Oct 12) 2016
#66

System and Method for Learning Semantic-Aware Graph Embeddings Using Set-centric Approach

G. I. Diaz, A. Fokoue, M. Sadoghi, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Rodriguez-Muro IBM Docket YOR820161380. Filed November 2016. 2016
#65

System and Method for Joint Learning of Local and Global Features for Entity Linking via Neural Networks

T. H. Nguyen, N. R. Fauceglia, M. Sadoghi, M. Rodriguez-Muro, O. Hassanzadeh, A. M. Gliozzo IBM Docket YOR820161390. Filed October 2016. 2016
#64

Augmenting Knowledge Graphs with Concise Higher-Level Relationships

R. Farrell, M. Sadoghi, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sellmann IBM Docket YOR820161233. Filed August 2016. 2016
#63

Automatic and Interpretable Linkage Prediction Through Knowledge-Driven Similarity Analysis

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Fokoue, M. Sadoghi, R. Farrell, M. Sellmann, P. Zhang IBM Docket YOR820160603. Filed July 2016. 2016
#62

System and Methods for Expressive Temporal Prediction Over Semantically-Driven Time Window

M. Sadoghi, R. Farrell, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sellmann IBM Docket YOR820160591. Filed July 2016. 2016
#61

A Method and System for Efficient Online, Iterative, Targeted Feature Selection

R. Farrell, M. Sadoghi, M. Sellmann, O. Hassanzadeh IBM Docket YOR820160589. Filed July 2016. 2016
#60

Toward a Complete Dataset of Drug-Drug Interaction Information from Publicly Available Sources

S. Ayvaz, J. R. Horn, O. Hassanzadeh, Q. Zhu, J. Stan, N. P. Tatonetti, S. Vilar, M. Brochhausen, M. Samwald, M. Rastegar-Mojarad, M. Dumontier, R. D. Boyce J. Biomedical Informatics 2015
#59

Schema Management for Document Stores

L. Wang, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Zhang, J. Shi, L. Jiao, J. Zou, C. Wang PVLDB 2015
#58

Automatic Curation of Clinical Trials Data in LinkedCT

O. Hassanzadeh, R. J. Miller ISWC 2015
#57

LinkedCT Live: Platform for Online Curation of Clinical Trials Data

O. Hassanzadeh, R. J. Miller, F. Nargesian, E. Zhu ISWC Demonstration 2015
#56

VizCurator: A Visual Tool for Curating Open Data

B. Ghadiri Bashardoost, C. Christodoulakis, S. Hassas Yeganeh, R. J. Miller, K. Lyons, O. Hassanzadeh WWW Companion 2015
#55

Understanding a Large Corpus of Web Tables Through Matching with Knowledge Bases

O. Hassanzadeh, M. J. Ward, K. Srinivas, M. Rodriguez-Muro OM Workshop 2015
#54

Knowledge Graph Augmentation through Schema Extension

O. Hassanzadeh, O. Lehmberg, M. Sadoghi Hamedani IBM Docket YOR820151554. Filed September 2015. 2015
#53

A System for Personalized and Detailed Adverse Drug Reactions Prediction

A. Fokoue, P. Zhang, O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sadoghi Hamedani, M. Sellmann IBM Docket YOR820151392. Filed September 2015. 2015
#52

Method and Apparatus for Identifying Semantically Related Records

A. Kementsietsidis, O. Hassanzadeh IBM Docket YOR820140306. Filed September 2015. 2015
#51

Exploring Big Data with Helix: Finding Needles in a Big Haystack

J. B. Ellis, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward SIGMOD Record 2014
#50

Method to Compute Top-K Plans and Top-M Clusters of Plans

S. Sohrabi, O. Udrea, A. V. Riabov, O. Hassanzadeh IBM Docket YOR820140621. Filed September 2014. 2014
#49

A Method for Data Virtualization Across Heterogeneous Formats

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward, A. Fokoue IBM Docket YOR820131244. Filed May 2014. 2014
#48

Discovering Linkage Points over Web Data

O. Hassanzadeh, K. Q. Pu, S. Hassas Yeganeh, R. J. Miller, M. Hernandez, L. Popa, H. Ho PVLDB 2013
#47

Next Generation Data Analytics at IBM Research

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, B. Kimelfeld, R. Krishnamurthy, F. Ozcan, I. Pandis VLDB Industry Vision 2013
#46

Extending the Web of Drug Identity with Knowledge Extracted from United States Product Labels

O. Hassanzadeh, Q. Zhu, R. Freimuth, R. D. Boyce AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics 2013
#45

Dynamic Enhancement of Drug Product Labels to Support Drug Safety, Efficacy, and Effectiveness

R. D. Boyce, J. R. Horn, O. Hassanzadeh, A. de Waard, J. Schneider, J. S. Luciano, M. Rastegar-Mojarad, M. Liakata J. Biomedical Semantics 2013
#44

Method and Apparatus of Replicating Records Based on Correlated Attributes for Multi-Column Range Summaries

M. Sadoghi Hamedani, T. Malkemus, Y. Chang, O. Hassanzadeh IBM Docket YOR820130867. Filed September 2013. 2013
#43

Methods and System for Discovery of Linkage Points between Data Sources

O. Hassanzadeh, M. Hernandez, L. Popa, H. Ho IBM Docket YOR820121699. Filed January 2013. 2013
#42

Uniform Search, Navigation and Combination of Heterogeneous Data

J. Ellis, O. Hassanzadeh, M. J. Ward IBM Docket YOR820121432. Filed May 2013. 2013
#41

Method and Apparatus of Replicating Records based on Correlated Attributes for Multi-Column Range Summaries

M. Sadoghi Hamedani, T. Malkemus, Y. Chang, O. Hassanzadeh IBM Docket YOR820130867. Filed October 2013. 2013
#40

Instance-Based Matching of Large Ontologies Using Locality-Sensitive Hashing

S. Duan, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward ISWC 2012
#39

Data Management Issues on the Semantic Web

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, Y. Velegrakis ICDE Seminar 2012
#38

Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase

R. S. Xin, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Fritz, S. Sohrabi, R. J. Miller Semantic Web Journal 2012
#37

Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, R. J. Miller, M. Wang Book Chapter: Semantic Search over the Web, Springer 2012
#36

Record Linkage for Web Data

O. Hassanzadeh Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto 2012
#35

System and Methods for Linking Data Elements Based on Similarity of Data Values and Semantic Annotations

J. Ellis, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward IBM Docket YOR920120394US1 & YOR920120394US2. Filed June-July 2012. 2012
#34

System and Methods for Linking Data Elements Based on Similarity of Data Values and Semantic Annotations

S. Duan, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward IBM Docket YOR920120394US1 & YOR920120394US2. Filed June-July 2012. 2012
#33

Linked Open Drug Data for Pharmaceutical Research and Development

M. Samwald, A. Jentzsch, C. Bouton, C. Kallesøe, E. Willighagen, J. Hajagos, M. S. Marshall, E. Prud'hommeaux, O. Hassanzadeh, E. Pichler, S. Stephens J. Cheminformatics 2011
#32

Helix: Online Enterprise Data Analytics

O. Hassanzadeh, S. Duan, A. Fokoue, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward WWW Demo Track 2011
#31

Linking Semistructured Data on the Web

S. Hassas Yeganeh, O. Hassanzadeh, R. J. Miller WebDB 2011
#30

Annotating Schema Elements Based on Associating Data Instances with Knowledge Base Entities

S. Duan, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward US Patent Application 2012/0246175 A1. Filed March 2011. 2011
#29

Aggregating Search Results Based on Associating Data Instances with Knowledge Base Entities

S. Duan, A. Fokoue, O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, K. Srinivas, M. J. Ward US Patent Application 2012/0246154 A1. Filed March 2011. 2011
#28

Semantic Link Discovery

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, M. Wang US Patent Application 2011/0106836 A1. 2009. 2011
#27

Online Annotation of Text Streams with Structured Entities

K. Q. Pu, O. Hassanzadeh, R. Drake, R. J. Miller CIKM 2010
#26

BibBase Triplified

O. Hassanzadeh, R. S. Xin, C. Fritz, Y. Yang, J. Du, M. Zhao, R. J. Miller I-SEMANTICS (Honorary Mention Triplification Challenge) 2010
#25

Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase

R. S. Xin, O. Hassanzadeh, C. Fritz, Y. Yang, J. Du, M. Zhao, R. J. Miller ISWC Poster & Demo 2010
#24

A Framework for Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, R. J. Miller, M. Wang CIKM 2009
#23

Creating Probabilistic Databases from Duplicated Data

O. Hassanzadeh, R. J. Miller VLDB J. 2009
#22

Framework For Evaluating Clustering Algorithms In Duplicate Detection

O. Hassanzadeh, F. Chiang, H. C. Lee, R. J. Miller PVLDB 2009
#21

Linkage Query Writer

O. Hassanzadeh, R. Xin, R. J. Miller, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, M. Wang VLDB Demonstration Track 2009
#20

A Declarative Framework for Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data

O. Hassanzadeh, L. Lim, A. Kementsietsidis, M. Wang WWW Poster 2009
#19

Linking Open Drug Data (Triplification Challenge)

A. Jentzsch, J. Zhao, O. Hassanzadeh, K. Cheung, M. Samwald, B. Andersson I-SEMANTICS (1st Prize Triplification Challenge) 2009
#18

Linked Movie Data Base

O. Hassanzadeh, M. P. Consens LDOW @ WWW 2009
#17

Enabling Tailored Therapeutics with Linked Data

A. Jentzsch, B. Andersson, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Stephens, C. Bizer LDOW @ WWW 2009
#16

LinkedCT: A Data Space for Clinical Trials

O. Hassanzadeh, L. Lim, A. Kementsietsidis, R. J. Miller, M. Wang Technical Report CSRG-596, UofT 2009
#15

Semantic-Aware Record Matching

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, M. Wang United States Patent US8468160 B2. Filed October 2009, Issued June 18, 2013. 2009
#14

Semantic-Aware Record Matching

O. Hassanzadeh, A. Kementsietsidis, L. Lim, M. Wang IBM Docket YOR920090276. 2009. 2009
#13

Linked Movie Data Base

O. Hassanzadeh, M. P. Consens I-SEMANTICS (1st Prize Triplification Challenge) 2008
#12

Automated Protein Structure Classification: A Survey

O. Hassanzadeh Technical Report CSRG-589, UofT 2008
#11

Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates

A. Chandel, O. Hassanzadeh, N. Koudas, M. Sadoghi, D. Srivastava SIGMOD 2007
#10

Accuracy of Approximate String Joins Using Grams

O. Hassanzadeh, M. Sadoghi, R. J. Miller QDB @ VLDB 2007
#9

Benchmarking Declarative Approximate Selection Predicates

O. Hassanzadeh M.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto 2007
#8

Probabilistic Management Of Duplicated Data

O. Hassanzadeh, R. J. Miller Technical Report CSRG-568, UofT 2007
#7

Language Identification from Text Using HMMs

O. Hassanzadeh, E. Zamiri 12th Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC) 2007
#6

Refreshing Web Page Repositories

O. Hassanzadeh B.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology 2005
#5

A Hybrid Approach for Refreshing Web Page Repositories

M. Ghodsi, O. Hassanzadeh, Sh. Kamali, M. Monemizadeh 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2005
#4

Agile Requirements Engineering (in Persian)

O. Hassanzadeh 10th Computer Society of Iran Computer Conference (CSICC) 2005
#3

Agile Requirements Engineering (Extended Version, in Persian)

O. Hassanzadeh Computer Report Magazine, Issue 163 (Informatics Society of Iran) 2005
#2

E-readiness: Measures, Obstacles and Iran's Situation (in Persian)

O. Hassanzadeh Computer Report Magazine, Issue 164 (Informatics Society of Iran) 2005
#1

Sensible Join Discovery Framework for Tabular Data Integration in Data Lakes

A. Khatiwada, A. M. Gliozzo, D. Bhattacharjya, G. Rossiello, H. Kokel, H. C. Samulowitz, K. Srinivas, O. Hassanzadeh, U. Khurana US Patent Application. To be filed

Select Projects

4 entries
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2026

Semantic Query Processing Engine (SQPE)

Enterprise Data Lakes

Platform for translating natural analytical intents into grounded, verifiable insights over heterogeneous enterprise data lakes.

Data LakesSemantic LayerLLMsQuery Processing
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2026

IBM Text-to-SQL Evaluation Toolkit

Open-source Benchmarking

Toolkit for realistic enterprise Text-to-SQL evaluation across schema complexity, business context, and execution quality.

Text-to-SQLEvaluationEnterprise AI
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2020-2024

Scenario Planning Advisor

Neuro-symbolic Risk Forecasting

Neuro-symbolic planning and event-forecasting solution deployed for enterprise risk scenario exploration.

Neuro-symbolic AIForecastingPlanning
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2014-2015

Helix

Data Discovery and Curation for Structured Data

Helix addressed the problem of data discovery and curation of structured data in data lakes before the term "data lake" was coined. The system included an innovative user interface as well as a novel and highly efficient indexing mechanism for similarity analysis.

Data DiscoveryData CurationIndexingSimilarity AnalysisUI

Teaching

APAN 5400 - Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Columbia University

Lecturer · Fall 2025

Cognitive Computing (Semantic Web, RDF)

Columbia University

Invited Lecturer · Fall 2016

CS 443 Database System Technology (Semantic Web, Linked Data)

University of Toronto

Invited Lecturer · Winter 2011

THE500 — selective program for senior PhD students and postdoctoral fellows on effective teaching strategies in higher education

Woodsworth College, University of Toronto

Teaching in Higher Education (THE500) Certificate · Winter 2011

CSC343 Introduction to Databases (Winter 2008, Winter 2009, Winter 2010); CSC467 Compilers and Interpreters (Fall 2005, Fall 2007); CSCA02 Why and How of Computing (Winter 2006, Fall 2006, Winter 2007)

University of Toronto

Teaching Assistant · 2005–2010

Programming Languages Design, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Shahid Beheshti University

Teaching Assistant · Fall 2004

Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Design, Computer Engineering Department

Sharif University of Technology

Teaching Assistant · Fall 2004

Digital Systems Design Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department

Sharif University of Technology

Instructor · Fall 2003

Professional Service

  • Senior Program Committee Member, ICDE 2027 (Research Track)
  • Co-Organizer, TaDA Workshop @ VLDB 2026
  • Sponsorship Co-Chair, IEEE ICDE 2026
  • Sponsorship Co-Chair, EDBT 2026
  • Senior Program Committee Member, AAAI 2026 (Research Track)
  • Program Committee Member, AAAI 2026 (Demo Track)
  • Co-Organizer, Beyond SQL: AI for Complex Data Management Workshop @ ICDE 2026
  • Co-Organizer, SURGeLLM Workshop @ ACL 2026
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2026
  • Senior Program Committee Member, ESWC 2026 (Resources Track)
  • Area Chair, IJCAI 2025
  • Co-Organizer, TaDA Workshop @ VLDB 2025
  • Member of the Review Board, PVLDB 2025-2026
  • Program Committee Member, EDBT 2025 Industrial and Application Track
  • Co-Chair, Industry Track, ISWC 2025
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2025
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2025
  • Senior Program Committee Member, Resource Track, ESWC 2025
  • Co-Organizer, Tabular Data, Semantics, and AI Seminar Series at IBM Research, 2024-2025
  • Member of the Review Board, PVLDB 2024-2025
  • Co-Organizer, TaDA Workshop @ VLDB 2024
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2024
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2024
  • Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2024
  • Senior Program Committee Member, ESWC 2024
  • Co-Organizer, TaDA Workshop @ VLDB 2023
  • Participant, DARPA AI Forward Initiative 2023
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2023
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2023
  • Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2023
  • Senior Program Committee Member, ESWC 2023
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2023
  • Program Committee Member, VLDB 2023 Industry Track
  • Program Committee Member, VLDB 2023 PhD Workshop
  • Program Committee Member, WWW 2023 Industry Track
  • Program Committee Member, NeSy 2023
  • Participant, NSF Open Knowledge Network Innovation Sprint 2022
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2022
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2022
  • Program Committee Member, AAAI 2022
  • Program Committee Member, VLDB 2022 Industry Track
  • Program Committee Member, WWW 2022
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2022
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2021
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2021
  • Senior Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2021
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2021
  • Program Committee Member, K-CAP 2021
  • Program Committee Member, CIKM 2021
  • Reviewer, Semantic Web Journal 2021
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2020
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2020
  • Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2020
  • Program Committee Member, AAAI 2020 Demonstration Track
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2020
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2020
  • Reviewer, VLDB Journal, Semantic Web Journal, SIGMOD Record 2020
  • Program Committee Member (Review Board), PVLDB 2019-2020
  • Co-Organizer, SemTab @ ISWC 2019
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2019
  • Program Committee Member, ICDE 2019
  • Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2019
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2019
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2019
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2018
  • Program Committee Member (Review Board), PVLDB 2018-2019
  • Program Committee Member, SIGMOD 2018
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2018
  • Program Committee Member, WWW 2018
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2018
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2017
  • Program Committee Member (Review Board), PVLDB 2017-2018
  • Program Committee Member, SIGMOD 2017
  • Program Committee Member, ISWC 2017
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2017
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2016
  • Program Committee Member, IJCAI 2016
  • Program Committee Member, SIGMOD 2016
  • Reviewer, AMIA 2016
  • Program Committee Member, EDBT 2016 Industrial Track
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2016
  • Program Committee Member, WebDB @ SIGMOD 2015 (Outstanding Reviewer Award)
  • Co-Organizer, OM Workshop 2015
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2015
  • Program Committee Member, EDBT 2015 Industrial Track
  • Program Committee Member, DESWeb @ ICDE 2015
  • Program Committee Member, SIGMOD 2015 Undergraduate Research Track
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2015
  • Program Committee Member, Novel Web Search Interfaces @ CIKM 2015
  • Reviewer, IEEE TKDE, Semantic Web, JDIQ 2015
  • Panelist, NSF 2014
  • Program Committee Member, ICDE 2014
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2014
  • Reviewer, IEEE TKDE, KAIS, IJSWIS, Semantic Web, AAAI 2014
  • Program Committee Member, EDBT 2014
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2014
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC 2013
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2013
  • Co-organizer, IBM Student Workshop F2C2 2012
  • Co-organizer, NSERC BIN Workshop at IBM Research 2012
  • Program Committee Member, ICDE 2012
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2012
  • Program Committee Member, WebDB @ SIGMOD 2012
  • Reviewer, IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, TODS 2012
  • Program Committee Member, Joint Workshop on Semantic Technologies Applied to Biomedical Informatics and Individualized Medicine (SATBI+SWIM) @ ISWC 2012
  • Program Committee Member, ESWC Linked Open Data Track 2011
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2011
  • Reviewer, Information Systems 2011
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2010
  • Reviewer, IEEE TKDE 2010
  • Reviewing Committee Member, Triplification Challenge 2010
  • Reviewer, Linking Open Data Triplification Challenge (Government Track), 2010
  • External Reviewer, AAAI Spring Symposium 2010
  • Program Committee Member, LDOW @ WWW 2009
  • Reviewer, J. Semantic Web and Information Systems 2009
  • External Reviewer, SIGMOD 2008
  • External Reviewer, Information Systems 2008
  • External Reviewer, VLDB 2007
  • External Reviewer, IEEE TKDE 2007

Memberships

  • Member and Chair, Data Management Professional Interest Community (DM PIC), IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (since 2012)
  • Invited expert, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (September 2008 – December 2011)
  • Member, Linking Open Drug Data Task Force at W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) (September 2008 – December 2011)
  • Member, Linking Open Data Community Project at W3C (2008 – 2017)
  • Member, ACM (since 2005)
  • Member, IEEE (since 2011)

Select Presentations

IBM Tech 2026 "Disrupt with Bob" Challenge — Winning Solution Presentation

IBM Tech 2026 Opening Ceremony (with IBM executives and 1K+ attendees)

2026 · San Diego, CA

Rethinking Evaluation for AI-Powered Data Systems

Invited Talk, 2nd Trends and Challenges in Industrial Data Systems Research (IDSR) Workshop @ ICDE 2026

2026 · Montreal, Canada

When Text-to-SQL Evaluation Misleads: Rethinking Benchmarking Practices

IEEE ICDE (Lightning Talk)

2026 · Montreal, Canada

Now What? Building Your Research Career After the PhD (Panelist)

ICDE 2026

2026 · Montreal, Canada

Leveraging Simple Semantic Models and Large Language Models for Event Analysis and Enterprise Data Management

Keynote, SemIIM Workshop @ ISWC

2024 · Baltimore, USA

Toward an AI Engine for News Event Analysis and Forecasting

MIT Lincoln Laboratory RAAINS Workshop

2023 · Virtual / Boston, MA

Knowledge-Based News Event Analysis and Forecasting

Keynote, FinNLP Workshop @ EMNLP

2022 · Virtual / Abu Dhabi

Knowledge Graphs for Data Exploration and Data Science

Invited Talk, Data Lab @ Northeastern University

2022 · Boston, MA

Semantic Concept Discovery Over Event Databases

ESWC 2018 (Best In-Use Track Paper Award)

2018 · Heraklion, Greece

Tiresias: Knowledge Engineering and Large-Scale Machine Learning for Interpretable Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction

AMIA Symposium

2016 · Chicago, IL

Automatic Curation of Clinical Trials Data in LinkedCT

ISWC

2015 · Bethlehem, PA

Understanding a Large Corpus of Web Tables Through Matching with Knowledge Bases

OM-2015 Workshop

2015 · Bethlehem, PA

LinkedCT Live: Platform for Online Curation of Clinical Trials Data

ISWC System Demonstration

2015 · Bethlehem, PA

Big Data Curation Through Knowledge Bases

Invited Talk, WACCK Workshop @ SIGMOD

2014 · Snowbird, UT

Discovering Linkage Points over Web Data

VLDB

2013 · Trento, Italy

Next Generation Data Analytics at IBM Research

VLDB Industry Vision

2013 · Trento, Italy

Instance-Based Matching of Large Ontologies Using Locality-Sensitive Hashing

ISWC

2012 · Boston, MA

Data Management Issues on the Semantic Web

Seminar, ICDE

2012 · Washington DC

Data Management Issues of Linked Open Data

Invited Talk, BIN Workshop

2012 · IBM Watson Research Center, NY

Linking Semistructured Data on the Web

WebDB

2011 · Athens, Greece

Publishing Relational Data in the Semantic Web

Invited Tutorial, ESWC

2011 · Heraklion, Greece

Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase

ISWC Poster

2010 · Shanghai, China

Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data

Invited Talk, UOIT

2010 · Oshawa, ON, Canada

Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data

Invited Talk, Thoora Inc

2010 · Toronto, ON, Canada

Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data

Poster, Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Summit

2010 · Sunnyvale, CA

Framework For Evaluating Clustering Algorithms In Duplicate Detection

VLDB

2009 · Lyon, France

Linkage Query Writer

VLDB System Demonstration

2009 · Lyon, France

A Declarative Framework for Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data

WWW Poster

2009 · Madrid, Spain

Linked Movie Data Base

LDOW @ WWW

2009 · Madrid, Spain

Enabling Tailored Therapeutics with Linked Data

LDOW @ WWW

2009 · Madrid, Spain

Managing Linked Data on the Web: the LinkedMDB showcase

Invited Talk, Data Management PIC Seminar

2008 · IBM Watson Research Center, NY

Accuracy of Approximate String Joins Using Grams

QDB @ VLDB

2007 · Vienna, Austria

Awards

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1st Prize, IBM Tech 2026 "Disrupt with Bob" Challenge (defined vision, formed team, and led development of a semantic query processing platform and UI; selected as top winner by a panel of IBM executives)

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IBM Tech 2026 invitee (IBM's premier internal recognition for top technical talent)

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IBM Research Accomplishment: GenAI Semantics for Structured Data, 2025

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IBM Research Accomplishment: NL2Insights Product and Client Adoption & Impact, 2025

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Distinguished Reviewer Award, VLDB 2025

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IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment: AI Planning Technology for IBM Applications, 2024

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IBM Research Accomplishment: Graphical Event Models, 2023

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IBM Research Accomplishment: AI Planning Technology for IBM Applications, 2023

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Member of Winning Team, FinCausal 2022 Shared Task (Financial Document Causality Detection)

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Best System Demonstration Award, ICAPS 2020

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Outstanding PC Member (Honorable Mention), ISWC 2020

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Distinguished PVLDB Review Board Member Award, 2020

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Best Reviewer Award, In-Use Track, ESWC 2020

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Outstanding Reviewer, ISWC 2019

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Best Paper Award, In-Use Track, ESWC 2018

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1st Prize, Semantic Web Challenge 2017

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Best Paper Award, Industrial Track, ESWC 2016

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Outstanding Reviewer Award, WebDB at SIGMOD 2015

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IBM Outstanding Contribution Award (2014)

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7 IBM Invention Plateau Awards (2013-2021)

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14 IBM Patent Issue Awards (2013-2021)

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2 IBM Eminence & Excellence Awards (2013, 2016)

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IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award, 2010

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Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Award, 2010

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Honorary mention, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2010 (BibBase)

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1st prize, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2009 (Linking Open Data)

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First Invention Achievement Award, IBM Research, 2009

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1st prize, Linked Data Triplification challenge 2008 (LinkedMDB)

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Ranked 3rd in Computer Engineering, Sharif University 2000 entrance; dual-degree program

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Ranked 118th among 350,000+ applicants, Iran Nationwide University Entrance Exam (Engineering and Applied Math), 2000

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27 IBM Invention Achievement Awards