Summary

• Senior scientist at Inria.
• Leader 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, Latin America Region.
• Chief Scientific Officer at LeanXcale, a company that develops a next generation NewSQL DBMS.
• ACM Fellow, 2013.

Highligths

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

Ranking (Computer Science)

• H-index=56, Citations=17,896, Publications=299, World Ranking=2057, National Ranking=32