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

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

My AI chair project SourcesSay (2020-2024) has been funded by the ANR and DGA. I am currently looking for PhD candidates!
I am proud to have been distinguished through an ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award together with five colleagues, for my contribution to the SIGMOD Repeatability Effort starting from its first year (2008)!
PVLDB 2020 demonstration co-chair
Scientific director of Lab IA, a French government body working to apply AI and DataScience in the French public administration.
Member of the scientific program committee of the Global Forum on AI for Humanity (GFAIH session videos, photos)
Coordinator of the ANR ContentCheck project on content management tools for journalistic fact-checking, with Le Monde, LIMSI, U. Lyon 1 and U. Rennes 1
Member of the PVLDB Endowment Board of Trustees
Member of the Bases de Données Avancées Steering Committee

Research interests

Models, tools and algorithms for data journalism and journalistic fact-checking
Efficient ontology-mediated query answering
Cloud-based management of Web data

Courses I teach:

"Big Data Architectures" (DK908b), in the Data and Knowledge track of the Computer Science Master (2nd year) of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IPP)
"Database Management Systems" (Inf553), at Ecole Polytechnique (IPP)
"Giant Global Graph" (Inf473G), at Ecole Polytechnique (IPP)

Office: INRIA Saclay, 1 rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (within Ecole Polytechnique), room 1029, 91120 Palaiseau

PhD students:

Maxime Buron, co-advised with François Goasdoué and Marie-Laure Mugnier, since October 2017
Ludivine Duroyon, co-advised with François Goasdoué, since October 2017
Paweł Guzewicz, co-advised with Yanlei Diao, since October 2018

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.