Portrait of Hesam Shahrokhi

Hesam Shahrokhi

Ph.D., Informatics · Principal Software Engineer at RelationalAI


Writing working code is the easy half. Now even AI can do it.

The other half is performance, reliability, safety, security, and more. Performance has been my focus in recent years — from a Ph.D. on compilation to production systems, with one method throughout: compile the workload rather than interpret it. The same approach runs through relational queries, Python dataframes, linear algebra, market data, and PDE solvers. That work continues. Alongside it, a new question: what tooling does an AI agent need to clear the other half?

/ Projects

/ Path

Academia Industry
  1. 2026
    VLDB 2026 — Industrial Track
    service
  2. 2026
    ECOOP 2026
    service
  3. 2025
    Principal Software Engineer
    RelationalAI
    2025 – now
    work
  4. 2025
    DBPL 2025
    service
  5. 2024
    Recognized as a Global Talent
    The Royal Society of the United Kingdom
    Aug 2024
    recognition
  6. 2024
    Senior Database Researcher
    Huawei Research UK
    2024 – 2025
    work
  7. 2024
    IEEE ICDE 2024
    paper
  8. 2023
    ECOOP 2023
    paper
  9. 2023
    ECOOP 2023
    paper
  10. 2023
    ACM SIGMOD 2023
    paper
  11. 2023
    ACM CC 2023
    paper
  12. 2021
    Ph.D., Informatics
    University of Edinburgh
    2021 – 2024
    education
  13. 2019
    Software Development Team Lead
    Orchid Pharmed
    2019 – 2021
    work
  14. 2015
    Founder & Product Manager
    Sharif Pars
    2015 – 2021
    work
  15. 2015
    Course Instructor and Organizer
    CE Department, Sharif University of Technology
    2015 – 2016
    teaching
  16. 2013
    M.Sc., Information Technology
    Sharif University of Technology
    2013 – 2015
    education
  17. 2009
    B.Sc., Information Technology
    Sharif University of Technology
    2009 – 2013
    education

/ Get in touch

Feel free to get in touch by email.

hesamoddin.shahrokhi@gmail.com