
Test-Time Optimization of Physical Query Plans with LLMs
Mehmet Hamza Erol, Xiangpeng Hao, Federico Bianchi, Ciro Greco, Jacopo Tagliabue, James Zou
Preprint (2026)
I am an incoming PhD student in CSE at UCSD, co-advised by Lianhui Qin and Yu-Xiang Wang. I completed my MS in CS at Stanford, supported by Fulbright, where I broadly researched post-training, and worked 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.

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)