Academic positions

Since Sept. 2025 Assistant Professor, LIRIS lab and INSA Lyon school (🇫🇷)
Research: part of the DRIM team, focusing on document engineering and distributed systems.
Teaching: 1st and 2nd year courses at the engineer school INSA Lyon.
Current
April 2024 - July 2025 Postdoctoral researcher, Politecnico di Milano (🇮🇹)
Horizon Europe project: "Better real-world health-data distributed analytics research platform".
Close collaborators:
  • Pietro Pinoli (associate professor, Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  • Anna Bernasconi (assistant professor, Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  • Boris Bikbov (medical doctor, Politecnico di Milano, IT)
 Finished
Jan. 2021 - March 2024 PhD student, Institut Polytechnique de Paris & Inria (🇫🇷)
PhD thesis title: "User-oriented exploration of semi-structured datasets"
PhD defense jury:
  • Fatiha Sais (president – professor, Univ. Paris-Saclay and LISN)
  • Jean-Marc Petit (rapporteur – professor, at INSA Lyon and LIRIS)
  • Olivier Teste (rapporteur – professor, Univ. Toulouse Jean Jaurès and IRIT)
  • Katja Hose (examinator – professor, TU Wien, AT)
  • Stefano Ceri (examinator – professor, Politecnico di Milano, IT)
  • Fatemeh Nargesian (examinator – associate professor, Univ. Rochester, USA)
  • Ioana Manolescu (advisor – research director, Ecole Polytechnique and Inria Saclay)
  • Karen Bastien (co-advisor – WeDoData CEO)
 Finished
Feb. 2020 - July 2020 Master intern, LIRIS (🇫🇷)
Master thesis title (in French): "Prédiction de l'environnement d'un quartier"
Advisors:
  • Fabien Duchateau (associate professor, Univ. Lyon 1 and LIRIS)
  • Franck Favetta (associate professor, Univ. de Lyon and LIRIS).
Other collaborators involved in the project:
  • Nelly Duong (CEO, Home in Love)
  • Behnaz Jullien (intern in psychology, Univ. Lyon 2)
  • Wissame Laddada (post-doctoral researcher, LIRIS)
  • Ludovic Moncla (associate professor, computer science at INSA Lyon)
 Finished
Feb. 2020 - July 2020 Bachelor intern, LIRIS (🇫🇷)
Bachelor thesis title (in French): "Intégration de données géographiques pour la recommandation de quartiers"
Advisors:
  • Fabien Duchateau (associate professor, Univ. Lyon 1 and LIRIS)
  • Franck Favetta (associate professor, Univ. de Lyon and LIRIS).
Other collaborators involved in the project:
  • Nelly Duong (CEO, Home in Love)
  • Loïc Bonneval (associate professor in sociology, Univ. Lyon 2)
  • Aurélien Gentil (PhD student in sociology, Univ. Lyon 2)
 Finished

Awards

BDA conference PhD thesis award (2024-10-23)

My PhD work won the 2nd prize for the PhD award delivered by the BDA conference, awarding one or two PhD with significant contributions in the French data management community.

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Training activities

For research

Doctoral supervision (18 hours)
  • The PhD journey as a system
  • Human and organizational factors for a successful PhD journey
  • Scientific co-production between the PhD student and the advisors
  • Understanding inter-culturality within the PhD eco-system
  • Evolution of the supervisor's role during a PhD and through a career
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ACM Peer Reviewer Training (1 hour)
  • Peer-review overview
  • Assessing your suitability to review
  • Review touchstones
  • Evaluating the paper
  • Submitting your review
  • Artifact review and badging
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For teaching

Student evaluation (4 hours)
  • How to evaluate students within the APC framework (Competency-based approach)?
  • How to evaluate students in the GenAI era?