Summary

• Director of Research Emeritus at Inria
• Team leader (2012-2023) of Zenith, an Inria team at University of Montpellier within the LIRMM laboratory pursuing research in Data Science and scientific data management
• Member of Iroko, a new Inria team at 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
• Principles of Distributed Database Systems - Fourth Edition, co-authored with M. Tamer Özsu, available since 2020 from Springer, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.
• Innovation Prize from the French Academy of Science and Inria, 2014
• ACM Fellow, 2013
• Trustee Emeritus of the VLDB Endowment, 1998

Ranking (Computer Science)

• Google Scholar (retrieved July 2025): H-index=61, Citations=22,593
• DBLP (retrieved Feb. 2025): Publications=328 (116 journals, 212 conferences)