Hello!
My name is Nelly Barret and I am associate professor at INSA Lyon and the DRIM team of the LIRIS lab since September 2025. I work on highly interesting and challenging fields, including heterogeneous data management, data integration, interoperability, data exploration, all possibly being AI- and/or LLM-flavoured. Dynamic and hard worker, I'm always ready to take on new challenges!
Previously, I was a happy post-doctoral researcher in the DEIB department of Politecnico di Milano where I worked on the BETTER project, which aims at building a network of 7 European cooperating hospitals, each providing very heterogeneous data. Before, I enjoyed being a PhD student at Inria Saclay, under the supervision of Pr. Ioana Manolescu in the CEDAR team, a joint team between Inria Saclay and École Polytechnique. My thesis was on summarization and exploration of semi-structured datasets. Before my PhD, I graduated from Université Lyon 1 where I obtained my Master in Artificial Intelligence.
Website last update: 15th April 2026
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Contact
- Email: nelly(dot)barret(at)insa-lyon(dot)fr
- My LinkedIn page
- My ORCID is 0000-0002-3469-4149
Latest news
- 05/11/2025: Check-out my updated website (full publication list, etc)!
- 01/09/2025: I became associate professor at INSA Lyon and the LIRIS lab!
- 23/10/2024: I received the 2nd prize from the BDA community, awarding PhDs with significant contributions to the data management field!
- 01/04/2024: New challenges ahead! I moved to Milano and I started a post-doctoral researcher contract.
- 15/03/2024: Last day as a PhD student: I defended my thesis at Inria Saclay, surrounded by a nice jury, the CEDAR team and my family!
