Summary

• Director of Research Emeritus at Inria
• Member of Zenith, a joint team between Inria, CNRS and University of Montpellier at LIRMM pursuing research in Data Science
• Scientific Advisor for the International Relationships department at Inria
• Scientific Director of the Inria-Brasil international lab
• Collaborator at LNCC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Chief Scientific Officer at LeanXcale

Highligths

• My career's story made short
• AAIA Fellow, 2024
• Since 2020, Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Fourth Edition (700 pages, Springer), co-authored with Prof. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo), is available (from Springer, Amazon, etc), with major revision of previous chapters and addition on new material on big data, NoSQL, NewSQL, polystores, web data integration and blockchain.
• Making the Right Move to Senior Researcher. ACM SIGMOD Record, May 2021
• What is data? les données en question (Interstices), 2016
• Innovation Prize from French Accademy of Science and Inria, 2014
• ACM Fellow, 2013
• Trustee Emeritus of the VLDB Endowment, 1998

Ranking (Computer Science)

• H-index=59, Citations=20,284, Publications=548, World Ranking=2680, National Ranking=47