Short Bio

He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Universite Paris Cite, Senior Fellow of the French University Institute (IUF), a distinction that recognizes research excellence across all scientific disciplines, ACM Senior Member and Distinguished Speaker, Director of LIPADE (Computer Science department), and Director of the Data Intelligence Institute of Paris (diiP), an IdEx-funded (Initiative of Excellence) interdisciplinary institute that includes the Universite Paris Cite, Sciences Po university, the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, and the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED). He is also organizing the University of Paris Seminar Series on Data Analytics.

Research Interests

His research is on problems related to data science, focusing on online and offline big data analytics and machine learning applications. It has been funded by the EU, IUF, CNRS, Facebook, IBM Research, HP Labs, Safran, Huawei, FMJH (supported by EDF and Thales), Telecom Italia, and PAT, and has led to an IBM Shared University Research Award, 3 Best Paper awards in international conferences, 10 US Patents (3 are part of commercial systems), 1 European Patent, and 2 French Patents.