Nick Yakovets
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Assistant Professor
Nick Yakovets
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Department / Institute
Mathematics and Computer Science
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EAISI Foundational
RESEARCH PROFILE
Nikolay Yakovets is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Information Systems WSK&I at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His main area of study is databases and data intensive systems. He is particularly interested in foundations of databases, efficient data analytics and engineering of high-performance data processing systems.
Nikolay’s current focus is on design and implementation of core database technologies, management of massive graph data, and efficient processing of queries on graphs. His educational activities focus on data modeling and databases, data management for data analytics, database technology, data engineering, seminar databases and capita selecta databases.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Nikolay obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in 2017, where his was a member of the YorkU database group. His doctoral thesis work focused on the optimization and efficient processing of complex path queries in large graph databases. Before that, Nikolay received his masters and bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science from the same university. His MSc thesis ‘Migration of Enterprise Security to a Database: A Case Study’ was carried out in close collaboration with IBM Center for Advanced Studies (IBM Research) and focused on improving the security in the domain of Master Data Management. During his studies, Nikolay also worked on multiple projects funded by the government of Canada (NSERC) on topics of high-performance data processing systems (in collaboration with Empress Canada) and on natural language processing algorithms and pipelines.
Recent Publications
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[### Meta-Property Graphs in Practice
29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2026
(2026)
Sepehr Sadoughi,Nikolay Yakovets](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/16072f3d-3c3e-47ea-ab3d-6d3b03e0ceba) - [### Breaking Down the Data-Metadata Barrier for Effective Property Graph Data Management
28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2025
(2025)
Sepehr Sadoughi,Nikolay Yakovets,George H.L. Fletcher](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/7e119736-576b-4b66-b700-5aa8caab8681) - [### Optimizing navigational graph queries
VLDB Journal
(2025)
Thomas Mulder,George Fletcher,Nikolay Yakovets](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/3632b0c9-c8c9-404f-8dba-81d18e611ed5) - [### Ontology-guided Knowledge Graph Construction from Maintenance Short Texts
1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models, KaLLM 2024
(2024)
Zeno van Cauter,Nikolay Yakovets](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/8ab69755-c3ba-4840-a422-80c926d45ff4) - [### HomeRun
7th ACM SIGMOD Joint International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences and Systems and Network Data Analytics, GRADES-NDA 2022, co-located with ACM SIGMOD
(2024)
Wilco van Leeuwen,George Fletcher,Nikolay Yakovets](https://research.tue.nl/nl/publications/b86c641f-1978-4af6-8684-d60f8958f91e)
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