Resume

  • Senior Researcher INRIA Saclay--Île-de-France
  • Professeur au Collège de France
  • Member of Laboratoire de Spécification et Vérification (LSV) (ENS Cachan and CNRS)
  • Member of Institut de France (Académie des Sciences, since 2008)
  • Membre de l'Academia Europea
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Technicolor and ACM SIGMOD
  • Member of the Board of La Fabrique , Meudon, and Les enfants animateurs , Sèvres
  • Interest: database, data management, web, change control, electronic commerce, electronic documents, object databases, distributed databases, heterogeneous databases, active databases, database theory, database languages, complexity theory temporal databases...
  • Education

  • Engineering degree in Telecommunications (ENST) in 1978
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, with Seymour Ginsburg in 1982
  • Thèse d'Etat from the University of Paris XI in 1986

    Awards and citations

  • ACM SIGMOD Innovation Award, 1998
  • ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2004
  • Prix d'informatique de l'Académie des Sciences (Prix EADS) 2007
  • ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, 2008
  • Advanced European Reesearch Council Grant Webdam on Web Data Management, 2008
  • Citeseer Top 100 all time most cited article (for the Lorel paper - 1998)
         Top 100 most cited article for year 1990, 1996, 1997 (as of June 2007)
  • Some previous positions

  • 2002-now: Researcher at INRIA Saclay, France; also Lecturer at Université Paris-Sud
  • 2008: Plummer Follow, Ste Anne College, Oxford
  • 2000: Co-Founder of Xyleme \cite{xyleme}
  • 1997-2003: Part time professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1995-1997: Visiting Professor at Computer Science Dept, Stanford University (Database and Theory groups)
        Consultant for NASA
  • 1990-1995: Part time professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1982-2002: Researcher at INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  • 1982: Researcher at USC, Los Angeles
  • 1979-1981: Teaching/Research assistant at USC, Los Angeles
  • 1977-1978: Lecturer at ESEAT, Rennes, France (military service)
  • 1976-77: Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept, Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Others

  • Chair of the executive commitee of ACM SIGACT-SOGMOD-SIGART PODS 2000-2002
  • Program Committee Chair for international conferences including:
    • International Conference on Data Engineering, Hannover (2011)
    • International Conference on Very Large Database, Lyon (2009)
    • European Conference on Digital Libraries, Paris (1999)
    • ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, San Jose (1995)
    • International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Jerusalem (1994)
    • International Conference on Database Theory, Paris (1990)
  • Chairman of the Scientific Board of Rocquencourt INRIA Research Center (2 years) and
         Chairman of the Scientific Board of Futurs (Lilles-Bordeaux-Saclay) Center (4 years).
  • Manager of the INRIA-Rocquencourt team (8 years) and
         Manager of the Gemo INRIA-Saclay team (5 years).
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