Position

• 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.
• ACM Fellow, 2013.

Highligths

• 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 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.
• Innovation Prize from French Accademy of Science and Inria, 2014.

Ranking

• Google Scholar (September 2021): citations=20083, h-index=56