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Full Professor Grenoble Institute of Technology (www.grenoble-inp.fr)
Deputy Vice President for research
Head of the HADAS group
General Information
I am member of Grenoble
Informatics Laboratory and a full Professor of Computer Science at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) in France since 1999.
Before that I spent nine years at Joseph Fourier University (UJF,Grenoble) as an assistant professor and one year at the MCC Consortium (Austin, USA).
Since 1991, I have been the head of several research projects in the database field and has directed 17 PhD
theses. From 1994 to 1997 I was responsible of the IMAG project named STORM on Actives, Temporal and Multimedia Object Data Servers. Then, I
took the head of the database management group (HADAS http://hadas.imag.fr/) currently comprised of fifteen persons.
I have been co-director of the LSR Laboratory from 2002 to 2007 and the representative of the ICT labs (around 1000 persons) at the Grenoble research department from 2001 to
2007. Since april 2007 I am the Deputy Vice president for research of Grenoble INP.
Teaching activities
My teachning activities mainly concerns Database systems and mediation infrastructure. Given classes are:
• Principes des Systèmes de Gestion de bases de Données (Grenoble INP- Ensimag 2ème année, Année Spéciale)
• Au coeur des Systèmes de Gestion de bases de Données (Grenoble INP-Ensimag 2ème année)
• XML et médiation de données (Grenoble INP-Ensimag 3ème année)
• Services de Bases de Données répartis (Master Recherche)
More details at http://ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr/
Research activities
My research domain concerns databases and their evolution in terms of data models, languages and architectures. More precisely I contributed
or still contributes to research activities on:
• Object and Active Databases, Distributed and Heterogeneous Databases
• Query processing in opportunistic networks and service-based applications
• reliable and adaptive service coordination
• mashing up reliable semantics services for clouds
I am curently involved in projects combining database techniques(OPTIMACS), service-based infrastructure (ORCHESTRA,
RedSHINE), network management (UBIQUEST). More details at http://hadas.imag.fr/
Recent Organizational Activities
Member of the editorial board of the VLDB journal
Member of the PVLDB, publication of the Very Large Database Endowment
Member of the Extended Data Base Technologies (EDBT) endowment
Member of the advisory board of the DB french conference.
Chair of the organization of the EDBT school 2009.
Member of the VLDB 2009 organization comittee.
Recent Participation to International Program Committees
PC member of the ICWE (International Conference on Web Engineering) 2010
PC member of the IDEAS 2010 conference
PC member of the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (Data Management and Data Centers Track)
• Toronto, Canada, June 2007.
• Montreal, Canada, June 2009.
PC member of the VLDB Conference Vienne, Autriche, September 2007
PC member of the EDBT conferences
• Nantes 2008
• St Petersburg 2009
PC member of the Second European Parallel and Distributed Systems (Euro-PDS98)