
Making Databases Faster with LLM Evolutionary Sampling
Mehmet Hamza Erol, Xiangpeng Hao, Federico Bianchi, Ciro Greco, Jacopo Tagliabue, James Zou
Preprint (2026)
I am a second-year MS student in CS at Stanford University. I research use-centric AI: augmenting models into efficient, adaptive, and controllable tools. I work closely with Mert Yuksekgonul, under the supervision of James Zou. I completed my BS in CS at KAIST, where I researched audio representation learning with Arda Senocak, supervised by Joon Son Chung, and human-computer interaction (HCI) with Meng Xia, supervised by Juho Kim. I am grateful to have been mentored by Faruk Bulut in my early research and informatics olympiad days.

Mehmet Hamza Erol, Xiangpeng Hao, Federico Bianchi, Ciro Greco, Jacopo Tagliabue, James Zou
Preprint (2026)

Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Batu El*, Mirac Suzgun*, Mert Yuksekgonul, James Zou
ICLR (2026)

Semyon Lomasov*, Judah Goldfeder*, Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Matthew So*, Yao Yan, Addison Howard, Nathan Kutz, Ravid Shwartz Ziv
NeurIPS Creative AI Track (2025)

Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Minsik Oh*, Douwe Kiela
Preprint (2025)

Batu El, Mehmet Hamza Erol, Hannah Park-Kaufmann
CS 224R - Outstanding Project (2025)

Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Arda Senocak*, Jiu Feng, Joon Son Chung
IEEE SPL (2024)

Jiu Feng, Mehmet Hamza Erol, Joon Son Chung, Arda Senocak
Interspeech (2024)

Jiu Feng*, Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Joon Son Chung, Arda Senocak
ICASSP (2024)

Jiu Feng*, Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Joon Son Chung, Arda Senocak
Interspeech (2023)

Meng Xia, Yankun Zhao*, Jihyeong Hong*, Mehmet Hamza Erol*, Taewook Kim, Juho Kim
Learning at Scale (2022)

Meng Xia, Yankun Zhao, Mehmet Hamza Erol, Jihyeong Hong, Juho Kim
Learning Analytics & Knowledge (2022)

Faruk Bulut, Mehmet Hamza Erol
The International Journal of Next-Generation Computing (IJNGC) (2018)