Semih Salihoğlu
CEO, Kùzu Inc. Professor at UWaterloo and CEO of Kùzu Inc, Semih studies and implements graph DBMSs.
About this speaker
Semih Salihoğlu is an Associate Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo, where he teaches courses on relational and beyond relational data management systems. He is also the CEO of Kùzu Inc., a spinoff startup company from his research group at University of Waterloo. His work focuses on developing systems for managing, querying, or doing analytics on graph-structured data. He is a recipient of several awards at premier database venues, such as 2018 VLDB Best Paper Award, a 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, and a Best Experiment, Analysis and Benchmark Paper Award at VLDB 2022.