Luthfi Balaka
PhD Student in Computer Science • The University of Chicago
I am a first-year Computer Science PhD student and an Eckhardt Graduate Scholar at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on designing AI-agent-driven systems for accelerating value extraction from tabular data.
News
- Apr 2026 Pneuma-Seeker demo paper accepted at CAIS 2026.
- Oct 2025 The Pneuma Project paper accepted at CIDR 2026.
- Jun 2025 Started my doctoral research at UChicago.
- Jan 2025 Pneuma accepted at SIGMOD 2025.
- Jan 2025 Accepted UChicago's CS PhD offer.
Publications
Pneuma-Seeker: Relational Reification of Information Needs for Agentic Data Discovery and Preparation
Under Review at VLDB 2026
Demonstration of Pneuma-Seeker: Agentic System for Reifying and Fulfilling Information Needs on Tabular Data
CAIS 2026
The Pneuma Project: Reifying Information Needs as Relational Schemas to Automate Discovery, Guide Preparation, and Align Data with Intent
CIDR 2026