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Senior scientist at Inria, working at LIRMM in Montpellier.
Leader of Zenith, a joint team between Inria, CNRS and University of Montpellier, pursuing research in Data Science.

Since 2019, I am the scientific advisor of the LeanXcale company, which develops a next generation NewSQL DBMS.
I teach two professional seminars at Capgemini Institut: Architectures of Big Data and Architectures of Distributed Applications.
Since 2020, Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Fourth Edition (700 pages, Springer), co-authored with Prof. Tamer �zsu (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.
My tutorial with Prof. Ricardo Jimenez-P�ris (CEO of LeanXcale): "NewSQL: principles, systems and current trends" at IEEE BigData 2019, Los Angeles, december 2019.
My first paper in Geoscience (with geoscientists): "In Situ Visualization and Data Analysis for Turbidity Currents Simulation", Computers & Geosciences, Elsevier, 2018.
All my books.
What is data? les donn�es en question.
Innovation Prize from French Accademy of Science and Inria, 2014.
ACM Fellow, 2013.