Scholar
Davood Rafiei
Google Scholar ID: lNxSDIwAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Univeristy of Alberta
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,632
H-index
17
i10-index
24
Publications
20
Co-authors
24
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Books: 'Natural Language Interfaces to Databases' (Springer Nature, 2023), 'Natural Language Data Management and Interfaces' (Synthesis Lecture on Data Management, 2018). Recent publications include projects like BareTQL, Synonymy, DeWild, etc.
Research Experience
- PC member for VLDB 2026, ICDE 2026, SIGIR 2026, and more; ACL Rolling Reviews 2023-2026 reviewer.
Background
- Areas of Interest: Natural language interfaces to databases, Tabular data integration and annotation, Large language models, Open-domain QA and web IR. Overview: Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta.
Miscellany
- Teaching: CMPUT 291 - Introduction to file and database management (Fall 2023), CMPUT 692 - Topics in Data Management with LLMs (Fall 2025).
