Research interests

Key-words: data science, machine learning, data management, big data, databases, distributed and parallel data management, scientific data management, workflow management, data engineering, transaction management, replication, query processing, performance evaluation, cluster and cloud computing.

Biography

Patrick Valduriez is a director of research emeritus at Inria, France, the scientific director of the Inria Brasil partnership and a collaborator at LNCC, Petropolis, Brazil. His research is in distributed data management and data science.

He obtained a PhD in computer science in 1981 at University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), now Sorbonne University. He joined Inria as a researcher in 1982 and became a director of research in 1989. He created and led several Inria teams (Rodin 1989-2000, Atlas 2003-2011, Zenith 2012-2023). He has also been a researcher at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. in Austin, Texas (1984-1989), the manager of the Bull-Inria Dyade joint venture (1995-2000), a professor of computer science at UPMC (2000-2002), and the chief scientific officer of LeanXcale (2019-2025).

He has authored and co-authored more than 300 technical papers and several textbooks, among which “Principles of Distributed Database Systems” (with Professor Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo). He has served as associated editor of major journals such ACM TODS, VLDB Journal and Distributed and Parallel Databases, and PC chair of major conferences such as SIGMOD and VLDB. He was the general chair of SIGMOD 2004, EDBT 2008 and VLDB 2009.

He received the best paper award at several international conferences (VLDB 2000, SBAC 2005, VecPar 2008, SBBD 2017, DEXA 2020). He was the recipient of the 1993 IBM scientific prize in Computer Science in France and the 2014 Innovation Award from Inria and the French Academy of Science. He is an ACM Fellow, an AAIA Fellow and a Trustee Emeritus of the VLDB Endowment.