2026
IBM Tech 2026 "Disrupt with Bob" Challenge — Winning Solution Presentation
IBM Tech 2026 Opening Ceremony
San Diego, CA
Talks & presentations
Talks &
presentations.
Invited talks, research presentations, and system demonstrations across data management, AI, and enterprise systems.
Selected presentations
Presentations by year.
2026
Rethinking Evaluation for AI-Powered Data Systems
Invited Talk, 2nd Trends and Challenges in Industrial Data Systems Research (IDSR) Workshop @ ICDE 2026
Montreal, Canada
2026
When Text-to-SQL Evaluation Misleads: Rethinking Benchmarking Practices
IEEE ICDE (Lightning Talk)
Montreal, Canada
2026
Now What? Building Your Research Career After the PhD (Panelist)
ICDE 2026
Montreal, Canada
2024
Leveraging Simple Semantic Models and Large Language Models for Event Analysis and Enterprise Data Management
Keynote, SemIIM Workshop @ ISWC
Baltimore, USA
2023
Toward an AI Engine for News Event Analysis and Forecasting
MIT Lincoln Laboratory RAAINS Workshop
Virtual / Boston, MA
2022
Knowledge-Based News Event Analysis and Forecasting
Keynote, FinNLP Workshop @ EMNLP
Virtual / Abu Dhabi
2022
Knowledge Graphs for Data Exploration and Data Science
Invited Talk, Data Lab @ Northeastern University
Boston, MA
2018
Semantic Concept Discovery Over Event Databases
ESWC 2018 (Best In-Use Track Paper Award)
Heraklion, Greece
2016
Tiresias: Knowledge Engineering and Large-Scale Machine Learning for Interpretable Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction
AMIA Symposium
Chicago, IL
2015
Automatic Curation of Clinical Trials Data in LinkedCT
ISWC
Bethlehem, PA
2015
Understanding a Large Corpus of Web Tables Through Matching with Knowledge Bases
OM-2015 Workshop
Bethlehem, PA
2015
LinkedCT Live: Platform for Online Curation of Clinical Trials Data
ISWC System Demonstration
Bethlehem, PA
2014
Big Data Curation Through Knowledge Bases
Invited Talk, WACCK Workshop @ SIGMOD
Snowbird, UT
2013
Discovering Linkage Points over Web Data
VLDB
Trento, Italy
2013
Next Generation Data Analytics at IBM Research
VLDB Industry Vision
Trento, Italy
2012
Instance-Based Matching of Large Ontologies Using Locality-Sensitive Hashing
ISWC
Boston, MA
2012
Data Management Issues on the Semantic Web
Seminar, ICDE
Washington DC
2012
Data Management Issues of Linked Open Data
Invited Talk, BIN Workshop
IBM Watson Research Center, NY
2011
Linking Semistructured Data on the Web
WebDB
Athens, Greece
2011
Publishing Relational Data in the Semantic Web
Invited Tutorial, ESWC
Heraklion, Greece
2010
Publishing Bibliographic Data on the Semantic Web using BibBase
ISWC Poster
Shanghai, China
2010
Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data
Invited Talk, UOIT
Oshawa, ON, Canada
2010
Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data
Invited Talk, Thoora Inc
Toronto, ON, Canada
2010
Semantic Link Discovery over Web Data
Poster, Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Summit
Sunnyvale, CA
2009
Framework For Evaluating Clustering Algorithms In Duplicate Detection
VLDB
Lyon, France
2009
Linkage Query Writer
VLDB System Demonstration
Lyon, France
2009
A Declarative Framework for Semantic Link Discovery over Relational Data
WWW Poster
Madrid, Spain
2009
Linked Movie Data Base
LDOW @ WWW
Madrid, Spain
2009
Enabling Tailored Therapeutics with Linked Data
LDOW @ WWW
Madrid, Spain
2008
Managing Linked Data on the Web: the LinkedMDB showcase
Invited Talk, Data Management PIC Seminar
IBM Watson Research Center, NY
2007
Accuracy of Approximate String Joins Using Grams
QDB @ VLDB
Vienna, Austria