About me

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Claude Bernard Lyon 1 with the Database Team in LIRIS laboratory. I am very passionate about research and teaching and I enjoy interacting with students and diving into challenging problems. I was very fascinated by human's reasoning faculties and for that particular reason I did my PhD about Artificial Intelligence because I believe that the best way to understand something is to try to build it. Right now, I'm trying to persuade you that I am an interesting person and a good recruitment material, I am explaining and persuading by appealing to certain form of arguments. In my PhD I studied the formal foundation of argumentation and explanation and their use in knowledge base systems when contradiction and inconsistencies are present. I recently finished my PhD from the University of Montpelier (France) and started a postdoc with Angela Bonifati in which I'm interested in dealing with contradictions and inconsistencies in structured and semi-structured data, i.e Relational and Graph Databases. My goal is to understand the limit of logical approaches proposed in knowledge representation and reasoning literature when it comes to heterogeneous and massive amounts of data. I taught web programming, software engineering and databases, and I believe that teaching is crucial not only for professional reasons but for self-improvement. Interacting with students and teaching new subjects was always enriching and informative. The ability to convey what I learn by making it simple (but not simpler) so that it can be within the reach of students' comprehension is a desirable skill that I acquired during my two years of teaching and I want to improve.