(c) Inria, photo G. Scagnelli. Profile photo here.	Senior researcher (DR1) at Inria Part-time professor at Ecole Polytechnique Lead of the CEDAR project-team of Inria and LIX, focused on Rich Data Analytics at Cloud Scale ACM Senior Member since 2021 ORCID: 0000-0002-0425-2462
Brief bio

In the media and other scientific communities.

President of the BDA (French-speaking Data Management) Association since 11/2023

Recent and upcoming (more frequent updates on my BlueSky account and on our team's X account):

My AI chair project SourcesSay (2020-2024) funded by the ANR and DGA.
We participate to the ELIAS (European Lighthouse for AI Sustainability Project), where we develop AI methods for transparency and democracy
I co-organized the PVLDB 2023 Summer School in Databases (July 24-27, 2023), Cluj, Romania
I co-organized the Hi!Paris Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (July 3-6, 2023), in HEC, Jouy-en-Josas, France
ACM SIGMOD 2020 Contributions Award together with five colleagues, for my contribution to the SIGMOD Repeatability Effort starting from its first year (2008)
I have been a SIGMOD 2024 Distinguished PC Member, and a recipient of the PVLDB Distinguished Reviewer Award in 2020, 2022

Research interests

Models, tools and algorithms for data journalism and journalistic fact-checking, see StatCheck
Graph data management and data lakes, see ConnectionLens and ConnectionStudio
Interactive data exploration, see SourcesSay

Teaching responsibilities:

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science 3A at Ecole Polytechnique (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, IPP)
Data Science Internships (Inf592), at Ecole Polytechnique (IPP)
"Architectures for Big Data" (TPT-DATAAI921), in the DataAI Master (2nd year) of IPP

"Database Management Systems" (Inf553), at Ecole Polytechnique (IPP)

Office: INRIA Saclay, 1 rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (within Ecole Polytechnique), room 1105, 91120 Palaiseau

PhD students:

Marijan Soric, co-advised with Pierre Senellart (ENS Paris, VALDA team of Inria), since March 2025
Gabriel Ben Zenou, co-advised with Oana Goga, since January 2025
Hritika Kathuria, co-advised with Maxime Buron (UCA), since October 2024
Antoine Gauquier, co-advised with Pierre Senellart (ENS Paris, VALDA team of Inria), since October 2023
Ghufran Muhammad Khan, co-advised with Angelos Anadiotis, since October 2021.
Kun Zhang, co-advised with Oana Balalau, since September 2021.

My former PhD students appear here.

I've also enjoyed being in: LRI (Université Paris Sud), the DEI department at Politecnico di Milano, the database group in Lucent, Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (ENS), and the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.