My name is Tamara Cucumides and I’m currently a PhD. student in the University of Antwerp, under the guidance of Floris Geerts

My research interest include graph learning, databases, and computational complexity

Publications

• Tamara Cucumides and Floris Geerts. Grables: Tabular Learning Beyond Independent Rows. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.03945, 2026. Paper

• Tamara Cucumides and Floris Geerts. The Missing Structure: When Graph Representations Outperform Tabular Models. In EurIPS 2025 Workshop: AI for Tabular Data. Paper

• Tamara Cucumides and Floris Geerts. From Features to Structure: Task-Aware Graph Construction for Relational and Tabular Learning with GNNs. In VLDB 2025 Workshop: Tabular Data Analysis (TaDA). Paper

• Tamara Cucumides, Daniel Daza, Pablo Barceló, Michael Cochez, Floris Geerts, Juan L. Reutter, Miguel Romero. UnRavL: A Neuro-Symbolic Framework for Answering Graph Pattern Queries in Knowledge Graphs. LoG 2024 (Learning on Graphs). Paper

• Tamara Cucumides and Juan Reutter. Communication Cost of Joins over Federated Data. In 27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2024). LIPIcs, Vol. 290, pp. 5:1–5:19, 2024. Paper

• Tamara Cucumides, Juan Reutter, and Domagoj Vrgoč. Size Bounds and Algorithms for Conjunctive Regular Path Queries. In 26th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2023). LIPIcs, Vol. 255, pp. 13:1–13:17, 2023. Paper

Teaching

As a lecturer

• PUC Chile - Database Systems (Bases de datos) 2022
• PUC Chile (Master in Artificial Intelligence) - Information visualization (Visualizacion de informacion y analitica visual) 2022
• PUC Chile (Master in Data Science) - Introduction to Data Science

As a teaching assistant

• too many to be listed: discrete mathematics, mathematical foundations of machine learning, database systems, ethics for engineers, capstone for mathematical engineers, calculus, linear algebra, etc.