CV - resume

CV en français

Serge Abiteboul est chercheur en informatique à l'Inria depuis 1982, actuellement à l'ENS, Paris (membre de l'équipe Valda). Il est émérite.

Serge Abiteboul a obtenu son doctorat de l'Université de Southern Californie, et une thèse d'État de l'Université de Paris-Sud. Il est chercheur en informatique à l'Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique depuis 1982, Directeur de Recherche Émérite depuis 2019, et depuis 2016 dans une équipe de recherche de l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris. Il a été Maître de conférences à l'École polytechnique, professeur invité à Stanford et Oxford University, et Professeur Affilié à l’École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Il a été détenteur de la Chaire au Collège de France en 2011-12 et de la Chaire Francqui à l'Université de Namur 2012-2013. Il a cofondé la société Xyleme en 2000. Il a reçu le prix de l'innovation ACM SIGMOD en 1998, le prix EADS de l'Académie française des sciences en 2007; le prix Milner de la Royale Society en 2013; et une bourse du Conseil européen de la recherche (2008-2013). Il est devenu membre de l'Académie des Sciences de France 2008, et membre de l'Académie de l'Europe en 2011. Il a été membre du Conseil national du numérique (2013-2016), président du Conseil scientifique de la Société d'Informatique de France (2013-2015). Il a été
de 2018 à 2024 Membre du Collège de l'Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, de la poste, et de la distribution de la presse). Il a cofondé et a été président du Conseil Stratégique de la Fondation Blaise Pascal (2017-2021). Il a codirigé en 2019 avec Frédéric Potier une mission du gouvernement français sur la modération des réseaux sociaux qui a produit le rapport "Créer un cadre français de responsabilisation des réseaux sociaux : agir en France avec une ambition européenne". Ses travaux de recherche portent principalement sur les données, la gestion de l'information et des connaissances, en particulier sur le Web.

Serge Abiteboul a écrit également des romans, des essais, une pièce de théâtre, et est éditeur et fondateur du Blog binaire. Il a été commissaire de l'exposition Terra Data à la Cité des sciences en 2017-2018.

Resume in English

Serge Abiteboul  has been a computer science researcher at Inria since 1982, currently at ENS, Paris (member of the Valda team). He is emeritus.

Serge Abiteboul obtained his doctorate from the University of Southern California, and a state thesis from the Université de Paris-Sud. He has been a researcher in computer science at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique since 1982, Directeur de Recherche Émérite since 2019, and since 2016 in a research team at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. He has been Maître de conférences at École Polytechnique, Visiting Professor at Stanford and Oxford Universities, and Affiliated Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. He held the Chaire at the Collège de France in 2011-12 and the Chaire Francqui at the University of Namur 2012-2013. He co-founded Xyleme in 2000. He received the ACM SIGMOD Innovation Award in 1998, the EADS Prize from the French Academy of Sciences in 2007; the Milner Prize from the Royal Society in 2013; and a grant from the European Research Council (2008-2013). He became a member of the Académie des Sciences de France in 2008, and a member of the Académie de l'Europe in 2011. He was a member of the French National Digital Council (2013-2016), and Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Société d'Informatique de France (2013-2015). He has been
is a member of the Collège de l'Arcep (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, de la poste, et de la distribution de la presse) from 2018 to 2024. He co-founded and was Chairman of the Strategic Council of the Blaise Pascal Foundation (2017-2021). With Frédéric Potier, he co-directed in 2019 a French government mission on the moderation of social networks, which produced the report His research focuses mainly on data, information and knowledge management, with a particular emphasis on the Web.

Serge Abiteboul has also written novels, essays and a play, and is editor and founder of Blog binaire. He curated the Terra Data exhibition at the Cité des sciences in 2017-2018.

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Positions today

  • Researcher Inria, Paris since 1982 - Emeritus since 2019
  • Member of ENS computer science lab LIENS since 2016  
  • Member of French Academy of Sciences, since 2008
  • Membre de the Academy of Europe, since 2011
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the Société d'Informatique de France, since 2013
  • Chairman of the DGFiP scientific councel since 2023
  • Member of the boards of Inria Foundation and Sopra-Steria Foundation since 2021
  • Member of the Scientific Council of Main à la Patte since 2022

Interests

Databases, data management, web, change control, electronic commerce, electronic documents, object databases, distributed databases, heterogeneous databases, active databases, database theory, database languages, complexity theory, temporal databases...

Education

  • Engineering degree in Telecommunications (now Telecom ParisTech) in 1977
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, with Seymour Ginsburg in (1978-1982)
  • Thèse d'Etat from the University of Paris XI in 1986 
  • Doctorat Honoris Causa, Université de Hasselt, 2018 

Awards and citations

  • ACM SIGMOD Innovation Award, 1998
  • ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2004
  • Prix d'informatique de l'Académie des Sciences (Prix EADS) 2007
  • Prix La Science se Livre, 2018, pour "Le Temps des Algorithmes" avec Gilles Dowek (Scientific popularization)
  • ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, 2008
  • Advanced European Research Council Grant Webdam on Web Data Management, 2008
  • Plummer Follow 2008, Ste Anne College, Oxford
  • Chair au Collège de France 2011-2012
  • Franqui chair 2012-2013 Professeur at Namur University
  • Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinary), 2012. 
  • Prix Milner de la Royal Society, 2013
  • Doctorat Emerit Causa, Hasselt Universiteit, Belgium, 2018
  • Citeseer Top 100 all time most cited article (for the Lorel paper - 1998)
         Top 100 most cited article for year 1990, 1996, 1997 (as of June 2007)

Some previous positions

  • Member of the Board of Arcep from January 2018 to January 2024
  • Chair of the Stretegic Council of the Blaise Pascal Foundation 2017-2023Affiliated professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan 2014-???? 
  • Co director (with Frédéric Potier) of a French government mission on the moderation of social networks, in 2019. 
  • Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Société d'Informatique de France, 2013-2015
  • Member of Conseil National du Numérique, 2013-2016 (National Digital Council)
  • Member of ENS Cachan computer science lab LSV LAB (2009-2016)
  • Franqui chair 2012-2013 Professeur at Namur University
  • Professor at Collège de France 2011-2012; Web site of the course Program at Collège de France
  • 2008: Plummer Follow, Ste Anne College, Oxford 
  • Member of Orsay University computer science lab LRI (2000-2009) 
  • 2000: Co-Founder of Xyleme SA (Now Xyleme Inc)
  • 1997-2003: Part time professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1995-1997: Visiting Professor at Computer Science Dept, Stanford University (Database and Theory groups)
        Consultant for NASA
  • 1990-1995: Part time professor, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
  • 1982-2002: Researcher at INRIA Rocquencourt, France
  • 1982: Researcher at USC, Los Angeles
  • 1979-1981: Teaching/Research assistant at USC, Los Angeles
  • 1977-1978: Lecturer at ESEAT, Rennes, France (military service)
  • 1976-77: Research Assistant, Computer Science Dept, Technion, Haifa, Israel

Others

  • Chair of the executive commitee of ACM SIGACT-SOGMOD-SIGART PODS 2000-2002
  • Program Committee Chair for international conferences including:
    • International Conference on Data Engineering, Hannover (2011)
    • International Conference on Very Large Database, Lyon (2009)
    • European Conference on Digital Libraries, Paris (1999)
    • ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, San Jose (1995)
    • International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, Jerusalem (1994)
    • International Conference on Database Theory, Paris (1990)
  • Chairman of the Scientific Board of Rocquencourt INRIA Research Center (2 years) and
         Chairman of the Scientific Board of Futurs (Lilles-Bordeaux-Saclay) Center (4 years).
  • Manager of the INRIA-Rocquencourt team (8 years) and
         Manager of the Gemo INRIA-Saclay team (5 years).
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Technicolor
  • Member of the Board of La Fabrique , Meudon, and Les enfants animateurs , Sèvres

Main passed software development

  • The Verso N1NF database system (lead by F. Bancilhon and M. Scholl)
  • The COL deductive database system
  • O2Doc and O2Views around the O2 object database system (European project)
  • The Active Views system of cooperative distributed applications (RNRT project)
  • The Active XML for managing distributed Web data (European project DbGlobe)
  • The EDOS P2P platform for Linux packages distribution (European project Edos)
  • The Active XML for managing distributed Web data (European project DbGlobe)
  • The Webcontent platform for content distribution (ANR project)
  • The WebdamLog deductive distributed datamanagement system (Webdam European project)