I advised (or co-advised) the following (55) PhD students (see the PhD theses of most of them here)

1. Daniel Rosendo, U. Rennes, 2023. Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
2. Renan Souza, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2019, Best Ph.D. thesis award, SBBD 2021. Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA.
3. Sakina Mahboubi, U. Montpellier, 2018, Assistant Prof., University of Batna, Algeria.
4. Vitor Silva, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2018, Best Ph.D. thesis award, SBBD 2019. Researcher at Apple-Siri, Los Angeles, USA.
5. Carlyna Bondiombouy, U. Montpellier, 2017, Data Scientist, Montreal, Canada.
6. Ji Liu, U. Montpellier, 2016, Technical Director, Hithink RoyalFlush Information Network Co., Hangzhou, China.
7. Valentin Leveau, U. Montpellier, 2016.
8. Naser Ayat, U. Amsterdam, 2014, Software Architect at Connectis, Amsterdam, Netherland.
9. Miguel Liroz, U. Montpellier, 2013, Data Engineer at Criteo, Paris.
10. Jonas Dias, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2013, Best Ph.D. thesis award, SBBD 2015. Head of Data Science at Evergen, Australia.
11. Vincenzo Gulisano, U. Madrid, 2012, Assistant Prof., Chalmers Univ., Sweden.
12. Toufiq Sarni, U. Nantes, 2011, Research Engineer, Schneider Electrics, Nice.
13. Fady Draidi, U. Montpellier, 2012, Ass. Prof., Naplouse U., Palestinia.
14. Eduardo Ogasawara, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2011, Prof. CEFET, Rio de Janeiro.
15. William Kokou Dedzoe, U. Nantes, 2011, Research Engineer, Inria Rennes.
16. Mohamed Jawad, U. Nantes, 2011, IT Consultant, Altran Technologies, Strasbourg.
17. Wenceslao Palma, U. Nantes, 2010, Prof, UCV, Valparaiso, Chili.
18. Philippe Lamarre, HDR, U. Nantes, 2009, Prof. INSA Lyon.
19. Eduardo Almadeia, U. Nantes, 2009, Prof, UFP, Curritiba, Brazil.
20. Rabab Hayek, U. Nantes, 2009, Gecko software, France.
21. Anthony Ventresque, U. Nantes, 2009, Prof., Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
22. Jorge Manjarrez, U. Nantes, 2009, Associate Prof., CIC IPN, Mexico.
23. Jorge Quiané-Ruiz, U. Nantes, 2008, Associate Prof., IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), deceased on May 28, 2023.
24. Reza Akbarinia, U. Nantes, 2007, Researcher, Inria. Best Ph.D. thesis award U. Nantes, 2008.
25. David Faye, U. Nantes, 2007, Associate Prof., U. Saint Louis, Sénégal.
26. Sandra Lemp, U. Nantes, 2007, Acapnos, France.
27. Vidal Martins, U. Nantes, 2007, Prof., PUCPR, Curritiba, Brazil.
28. Marcos Didonet de Fabro, U. Nantes, 2007, Ass. Prof, UFP, Curritiba, Brazil.
29. Cédric Coulon, U. Nantes, 2006, Vision Objects, Nantes, France.
30. Cécile Lepape, UPMC, 2005, Tech. manager, Couchbase, France.
31. Alexandro Bento Lima, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, 2004, Prof. UFRJ, Brazil.
32. Joao Pereira, UVSQ, 2002, Prof. U. Lisbon, Portugal.
33. Ioana Manolescu, UVSQ, 2002, DR Inria, head of CEDAR team (Inria-Saclay).
34. Helena Galhardas, UVSQ, 2001, Prof. U. Lisbon, Portugal.
35. Khaled Yagoub, UVSQ, 2001, Oracle Corp. USA.
36. Fabio Porto, PUC Rio, 2001, Researcher, LNCC, Rio de Janeiro.
37. Olga Kapiskaia, UPMC, 1999, Prof., Audencia Business School, Nantes.
38. Hubert Naacke, UVSQ, 1999, Prof. at UPMC.
39. Luc Bouganim, UVSQ, 1996, DR Inria.
40. Daniela Florescu, UPMC, 1996, CTO and co-founder, Arico IoT, USA.
41. Jean-Robert Gruser, UPMC, 1996, consultant, Paris.
42. Laurent Daynès, UPMC, 1995, Sun Labs, USA.
43. Laurent Amsaleg, UPMC, 1995, DR CNRS, IRISA, Rennes.
44. Benoit Dageville, UVSQ, 1995, co-founder, Snowflake Computing, USA.
45. Patrick Casadessus, UPMC, 1994, Modis, Paris.
46. Mohamed Zaït, UPMC, 1994, Databricks, USA.
47. Eric Amiel, UPMC, 1994, software engineer, Lausanne.
48. Olivier Gruber, UPMC, 1992, Prof. U. Grenoble.
49. Marie-Jo Bellosta, UPMC, 1992, Associate Prof. at U. Paris Dauphine.
50. Fabienne Viallet, UPMC, 1991, Associate Prof. U. Toulouse.
51. Mikal Ziane, UPMC, 1991, Associate Prof. at U. Paris 5.
52. Björn Bergsten, UPMC, 1991, ViaSat, Carlsbad, CA, USA.
53. Rosana Lanzelotte, PUC Rio, 1991, Prof. UNIRio, Rio de Janeiro, now retired.
54. Philippe Pucheral, UPMC, 1989, prof. at UVSQ.
55. Eric Simon, UPMC, 1986, Technical Manager at SAP, Paris, now retired.