Bio
I am a research director at CNRS, leader of the Tyrex research team at LIG and Inria. I am also a member of the board at LIG, responsible for the research axis on Models, Languages and Formal Methods, composed of several teams. I am also co-responsible for the PhD program in Computer Science (ED MSTII) at the University Grenoble-Alpes. I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2006 and an HDR in 2014.
Before that, I was a researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (post-doc in 2007 and invited researcher in 2012), research officer at IBM Research headquarters (2004-2005), founder of a small software company in the field of image editing (1997-2001), and science & technology advisor for a few startups (2001-2010). I received several scientific prizes including a CNRS Bronze Medal.
- In 2026, I was awarded a MIAI Chair to develop a new research program in neuro-symbolic AI, at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data management, and symbolic reasoning. Postdoctoral positions available.
- MuIR is a state-of-the-art system for recursive navigational graph queries, now available as open-source software. It builds on research results published at VLDB 2024, ICDE 2025, SIGMOD 2020 and 2025.
- I coordinate the GraphRec research project (2023-28) on recursive graph queries, relational learning and hybrid queries: see the latest results.
- My program committee service spans databases, programming languages, and artificial intelligence, including ACM SIGMOD 2025 , ACM PLDI 2023 , and AAAI 2027 .
- See research papers for insights, organized by topic or full list.