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Moe Kayali

Role: PhD Student, School of Computer Science, University of Washington--Seattle.

Interests: data management systems, AI for DB, graph data, cybersecurity.

Email: kayali@cs.washington.edu

Office: Gates Center, Room 281

Advisor: Prof. Dan Suciu

Short bio

I build algorithms and systems that bridge the semantic gap: approaches that interact with data the way it is, not the way we wish it was. Particularly semi-structured and graph data.

Previously: Microsoft Research, Aryn Inc., Virta Labratories and the Gray Systems Lab.

Links

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Changelog

  • 2025-01 — COLOR paper accepted at VLDB 2025
  • 2025-10 — "Mind the Data Gap" will appear at CIDR 2025
  • 2024-09 - CHORUS is selected as Best Paper (runner up) at VLDB 2024
  • 2024-03 - CHORUS is accepted to VLDB 2024
  • 2024-01 - Panelist on AI+DB at NWDS 2024

Service

  • Reviewer: SIGMOD 2025 Reproducibility

Releases

  • QuasiStableColors.jl v0.1 — library for lossy graph compression [docs]

Awards and Fellowships

  • Allen School Leadership Award - 2024
  • Best Adult Skier - Mountaineers Ski School, 2024
  • Herbold Fellowship - 2022
  • Outstanding CS Senior - 2020
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Selected peer-reviewed publications

Order: year desc. Full list in CV. Authors in venue style.

  • Color: A Framework for Applying Graph Coloring to Subgraph Cardinality Estimation. 2025. VLDB. [PDF] [Code]
  • Mind the Data Gap: Bridging Large Language Models (LLMs) to Enterprise Data Integration. 2025. CIDR. [PDF] [Dataset]
  • CHORUS: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration. 2024. VLDB. Best Paper (Runner up) [PDF]
  • Quasi-stable Coloring for Graph Compression: Approximating Max-Flow, Linear Programs, and Centrality. 2022. VLDB. [PDF] [Code]

Preprints

  • SSH-Passkeys: Leveraging Web Authentication for Passwordless SSH. 2025. [ArXiv]

Patents

  • Systems and methods for facilitating cybersecurity risk management of computing assets. 2020.

BibTeX

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Talks

  • 2025 - Northeast Database Day. Brandeis University. "Mind the Data Gap" [Slides]
  • 2024 - Northwest Database Society. Google Kirkland. "Panel on AI and DB" (Invited Panelist)
  • 2023-07 — JuliaCon. MIT. "Analyzing Large Graphs with QuasiStableColors.jl" [Slides] [Video]

Teaching

  • CSE 544 (grad)
  • CSE 444
  • CSE 344