Adeel Aslam

Dr. Adeel Aslam

Global Talent | Migrant UKRI-endorsed

I am Dr. Adeel Aslam, holding a Doctorate in Informatics with a specialization in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

Research Interests

β€’ Distributed query processing using distributed stream processing systems
β€’ In-memory predictive algorithms β€’ Vector databases.

πŸ“ Southampton, UK | πŸ“§ adeelaslam752@gmail.com | πŸ“ž +44 7427 373412

βœ‰ Email | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | DBLP

News & Updates

2026
Paper EDBT 2026

Conference paper Adaptive Query-Aware Hybrid Search in Vector Databases to the EDBT 2026 Conference.

September 2025
Paper Submitted to IEEE TKDE

Journal paper (Revision 1 submitted) titled Versatile Sketch-Based Attribute Filtering for Hybrid Vector Search to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).

Employment

Research Fellow

Southampton, UK

School of Electrical and Computer Science | Mar 2025 β€” Now

Focused on vector database query optimization and compliance-driven data workflows.

Teaching Assistant

Modena, Italy

School of Information Communication Technology | Mar 2022 β€” Jan 2025

Delivered a course on Business Intelligence and Big Data Management at UNIMORE.

Researcher

Wuhan, China

Services Computing and Big Data Processing Lab | Sep 2018 β€” May 2021

Conducted scientific research on distributed computing, big data, and stream processing.

Lecturer

Gujrat, Pakistan

University of Lahore | Aug 2017 β€” Sep 2018

Taught undergraduate courses and supervised application-based projects for students’ final degrees.

Software Developer

Islamabad, Pakistan

Jolta Technologies | Feb 2014 β€” Jun 2016

Developed, compiled, and tested Java applications, including Android mobile applications.

Visiting Research Positions

Kahlert School of Computing

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

The University of Utah | Jul 2024 β€” Nov 2024

Worked at the Utah-DB group on scalable database systems and data-intensive computing under the supervision of Prof. El Kindi Rezig.

Database Systems and Information Management

Berlin, Germany

Technical University of Berlin | Oct 2022 β€” Dec 2022

Worked with the Database System and Information Management on stream join processing with Prof. Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz .

Education

PhD

Big Data and AI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2021–2025

Master

Software Engineering, COMSATS University, Islamabad, 2015–2017

Bachelor

Software Engineering, Mirpur University of Science & Technology, 2009–2014

Publications

Versatile Sketch-Based Attribute Filtering for Hybrid Vector Search

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Luca Gagliardelli, El Kindi Rezig, George Konstantinidis, Giovanni Simonini

Journal: Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Submission phase, 2025

SPO-Join: Efficient distributed stream inequality join

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Kaustubh Beedkar, Giovanni Simonini

Conference: EDBT, Barcelona, Spain, 2025

Evaluation of Dataframe Libraries for Data Preparation on a Single Machine

Authors: Angelo Mozzillo, Luca Zecchini, Luca Gagliardelli, Adeel Aslam, Sonia Bergamaschi, Giovanni Simonini

Conference: EDBT, Barcelona, Spain, 2025

Stream-aware indexing for distributed stream processing

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Giovanni Simonini, Luca Gagliardelli et al.

Journal: Submitted to Information Systems, 2024

Efficient Stream Join Processing: Novel Approaches and Challenges

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Giovanni Simonini

Conference: HPDC, Pisa, Italy, 2024

HKS: Efficient data partitioning for stateful streaming

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Giovanni Simonini, Luca Gagliardelli et al.

Conference: DawaK, 2023

Progressive Entity Resolution with Node Embeddings

Authors: Giovanni Simonini, Luca Gagliardelli, Adeel Aslam et al.

Conference: SEBD, 2022, pp. 52-60

Pre-filtering based summarization for data partitioning in distributed stream processing

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin

Journal: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2021 Apr 30:e6338

Autonomic performance prediction framework for data warehouse queries

Authors: Basit Raza, Adeel Aslam, Asma Sher, et al.

Journal: Applied Soft Computing, 2020 Jun 1;91:106216

Reasoning-based workload performance prediction in cloud data centers

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Hanhua Chen, Jiang Xiao, Hai Jin

Conference: IEEE CloudCom, 2019 Dec 11, pp. 431-438

Reasoning-based virtual machine mapping toward the physical machine

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Hanhua Chen, Jiang Xiao, Song Wu, Hai Jin

Conference: Human-Centered Computing Conference, 2019 Aug 5, pp. 1-12

Decision support system for risk assessment and management strategies in distributed software development

Authors: Adeel Aslam, Naveed Ahmad, et al.

Journal: IEEE Access, 2017 Oct 3;5:20349-73

Services

PC Member

VLDB 2027 (core A*)

PC Member

EDBT 2027 (core A)

PC Member

ICDE 2026 (core A*)

Shadow PC Member

VLDB 2026 (core A*)

Reviewer

Applied Soft Computing & Journal of Big Data

Skills

Programming

Java, Python, C++, Distributed Stream Processing

Teaching

Business Intelligence, Big Data Management, Databases, Software Engineering

Business Skills

Presentation, Scientific Writing, Teamwork

References

Prof. Giovanni Simonini

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

simonini@unimore.it

Prof. George Konstantinidis

University of Southampton, UK

G.Konstantinidis@soton.ac.uk

Prof. Sonia Bergamaschi

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

sonia.bergamaschi@unimore.it

Prof. Kaustubh Beedkar

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

kbeedkar@cse.iitd.ac.in

Prof. El Kindi Rezig

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

elkindi@cs.utah.edu