I am broadly interested in knowledge representation and its interactions with database theory and database systems, often seen through a logical and/or graph based formalism. I started in this field by getting a Ph.D from the University of Montpellier, supervised by J.-F. Baget and M.-L. Mugnier in the Inria team GraphIK. I then joined the group of Sebastian Rudolph at TU Dresden and partially funded through an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. I then have been recruited in the Oak/Cedar team of Inria Saclay, before joining Valda in April 2018.

Projects

I am currently involved in the following project:

• CQFD, a collaborative project led by Federico Ulliana funded by the ANR, whose goal is to develop an OMQA framework applicable on heterogeneous data models and deployable over federated polystore systems.

I've previously worked in the Pagoda project, led by Meghyn Bienvenu.

Open access

I firmly believe that publicly funded published research should be freely accessible to the general public. Yes, the word stem "public" appears quite a lot in this sentence. It is a shame that this is not the case today. My baseline approach with respect to publications (that may be adapted to fit particular situations: co-author thinking otherwise, ...):

• make my publications available on HAL (on this one, I do not even have a choice: my employer requires this);
• submit to conferences/journals that adopt a stance on open access that is as good as possible;
• do not review for journals or conferences that hinders the access to the research they are meant to make public.

An intersting read regarding this problem or other problems in academia is available on Antoine Amarilli's webpage: What's wrong with academia?

Reviewing Activity

I have been a PC member for the following conferences (and reviewer for numerous other conferences or journals):

• AAAI'18,19,20
• IJCAI'15,16,17,18,19,20
• PRIMA '15,16,
• ICCS'14,16,
• RuleML'15,
• ECAI'14,20
• RR'14 GKR@IJCAI'13,

Publications

My list of publications is available on DBLP. Some version of my publications from 2016 is (or will soon be) available on HAL.

Teaching

I am currently involded in teaching for the following courses:

• Bases de données at ENS.
• Knowledge Graphs, Description Logics and Reasoning on Data

Awards

My Ph.D thesis has been co-awarded the 2014 AFIA prize and was a second prize for the 2014 Gilles Kahn Prize.