Rémi Morvan

About me

I am currently a freelance software engineer, working on the LaTeXML*knowledge project, paid by Thomas Colcombet.

From September 2021 to August 2025, I was a Ph.D. student at LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, under the supervision of Diego Figueira and Nathanaël Fijalkow. My thesis, Homomorphism Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures, focuses on optimizing graph database queries and studying constraint satisfaction problems over automatic structures.

Email: x@morvan.xyz where x = remi.

Oct 2025: I’ve started working on the LaTeXML*knowledge project as a freelance engineer.
Oct 2025: I’ve accepted to be part of the programme committee of ICDT ‘27.
Oct 2025: The final version of my thesis has been accepted by the university. You can find it here.
Jul 2025: I successfully defended my thesis!
Apr 2025: Distinguished Paper Award at PODS ‘25 for Minimizing Conjunctive Regular Path Queries.

Porting your LaTeX package in LaTeXML · Dec 17, 2025
I’ve starting porting the knowledge package in LaTeXML. This entry explains the beginning of this journey, in the hope of helping others to port their LaTeX package in LaTeXML.

LaTeXML*knowledge
Contributing to the LaTeXML software to add support for the knowledge package.
knowledge-clustering
A command-line assistance tool to facilitate the use of the knowledge LaTeX package.
Pysemigroup 2.0
Collaborative database project dedicated to visualizing and comparing research results in automata theory.
Reverse Heist
A puzzle game made in 72h with Godot. Your goal: to pull off a heist, except that you’ll not be stealing anything…

Last papers:

Homomorphism Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures, 2025
Ph.D. thesis · arXiv · doi
Minimizing Conjunctive Regular Path Queries, 2025
PODS '25 · arXiv · doi
Distinguished Paper Award

Last talk:

Relational AI · 30 Jul 2025
Homomorphisms Problems in Graph Databases and Automatic Structures, and Beyond
online · 45min · slides