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 (2019-2025)
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
- Scientific Prize in Computer Science, IBM France, 1993
Ranking (Computer Science)
- Google Scholar (retrieved May 2026): H-index=61, Citations=21,680
- Research.com (retrieved May 2026): World=3252, National (France)=53
- DBLP (retrieved May 2026): Publications=329 (117 journals, 212 conferences)