	Senior researcher at Inria and 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 and/or LinkedIn account):

I coordinate the ANR-funded project TopOL (Top of the Lake), where we investigate graph and NLP method to help explore lakes of heterogeneous, semistructured data (since 2025).
I am the recipient of the Hi!Paris Fellowship PreDIAL: AI Dialogs for the Press (since 2025)
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
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

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

PhD students:

Asuncion Carolina Gomez Colomer, co-advised with Madhulika Mohanty (CEDAR), since January 2026.
Przemyslaw Dominikowski, co-advised with Madhulika Mohanty (CEDAR), since September 2025.
Marijan Soric, co-advised with Pierre Senellart (ENS Paris, VALDA team of Inria), since March 2025
Hritika Kathuria, co-advised with Maxime Buron (UCA), since October 2024

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.