Summary

• Director of Research Emeritus at Inria
• Team leader (2012-2023) of Zenith, an Inria team with University of Montpellier at LIRMM pursuing research in Data Science
• Member of Iroko, a new Inria team with University of Montpellier pursuing research in Data-Driven Environmental Sciences
• Scientific Advisor for the International Relationships department at Inria
• Scientific Director of the Inria-Brasil international partnership
• Collaborator at LNCC, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Chief Scientific Officer at LeanXcale

Highligths

• My career's story made short
• AAIA Fellow, 2024
• The textbook Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Fourth Edition, which I co-authored with Prof. Tamer Özsu (University of Waterloo), is available (from Springer, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc).
• 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