Nick Koudas
Professor
Studies data management and query processing, including video query processing with deep learning models.
Nick Koudas's lab at Toronto works on data management & big data. 27 papers since 2023, 15 at top venues, mostly VLDB and SIGMOD. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 2
- 8 papers2024 · T1 5
- 5 papers2023 · T1 5
T1 venuesOtherVenues: VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, TKDE, CIKM
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data8 papers
- query processing2 papers
- query2 papers
- studies data0 papers
- learning models0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20266 papers
- VLDB (T1)Can we trust LLM Self-Explanations for Entity Resolution? (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)CRAFT: Corpus Relatedness Analysis Using Fourier Transforms (opens in a new tab)
- EDBT/ICDT WorkshopsNavigating the Shift: A Comparative Analysis of Web Search and Generative AI Response Generation (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTReFRED: Reliable Function REtrieval for Data transformation (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)Relational Deep Dive: Error-Aware Queries Over Unstructured Data (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTReliable End-to-End Text-to-SQL Generation (opens in a new tab)
20258 papers
- CIKM (T1)Approximating Gradient-Based Influence for Scalable Instruction Data Selection (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTCoping With Data Drift in Online Video Analytics (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTDataSculpt: Cost-Efficient Label Function Design via Prompting Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTEnsembling Object Detectors for Effective Video Query Processing (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTPythia: A Neural Model for Data Prefetching (opens in a new tab)
- SIGMOD (T1)Reliable Text-to-SQL with Adaptive Abstention (opens in a new tab)
- SIGMOD Conference CompanionRTS+: Reliable Text to SQL (opens in a new tab)
- ICDMSelective Cloud Offloading for Accurate and Efficient Object Detection (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- TKDE (T1)A Distributed Solution for Efficient K Shortest Paths Computation Over Dynamic Road Networks (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTActiveDP: Bridging Active Learning and Data Programming (opens in a new tab)
- ICKGAxolotl: Fairness through Assisted Prompt Rewriting of Large Language Model Outputs (opens in a new tab)
- SIGMOD (T1)Data Acquisition for Improving Model Confidence (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)Optimizing Video Queries with Declarative Clues (opens in a new tab)
- EDBTQuerying For Actions Over Videos (opens in a new tab)
- SIGMOD (T1)Unstructured Data Fusion for Schema and Data Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)WeShap: Weak Supervision Source Evaluation with Shapley Values (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- SIGMOD (T1)dbET: Execution Time Distribution-based Plan Selection (opens in a new tab)
- ICDE (T1)Marshalling Model Inference in Video Streams (opens in a new tab)
- TKDE (T1)Querying for Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- ICDE (T1)SVQ-ACT: Querying for Actions over Videos (opens in a new tab)
- ICDE (T1)Track Merging for Effective Video Query Processing (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went
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Apply to TorontoFall 2027
Computer Science MSc/PhD
- Round
- Single round (Dec 1)
- Opens
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL/IELTS if applicable
- Fee
- CAD 135
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