Associate Professor of Computer Science

at the University of Paris-Saclay

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I'm an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) of Computer Science at the University of Paris-Saclay since September 2021. I conduct my research in the LaHDAK team of the LISN research institute and continuously collaborate with the KRR group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

My research is focused around the field of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning on the Web, which is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence. Specifically, I develop techniques to refine large Knowledge Graphs, that are used in many applications such as Siri and Google search, by correcting or completing the facts in these graphs. I am also interested in all questions related to managing the identity of entities in the Web of Data.

My teaching is based at the IUT of Orsay, where I also co-manage the responsibility of international relations. My courses are mainly on semantic web, databases and programming. I'm also responsible of the Fundamentals of Data structures and Data Analysis course in the new AIDAMS bachelor at CentraleSupélec and give some lectures at the Masters 2 Data Science at the faculty.

I started my career studying software engineering at the Antonine University in Beirut. Then I got my Master of Research degree in Computer Science from the University of Burgundy in Dijon, before starting a 3-year PhD program at my current university on Identity Management in Knowledge Graphs. Right before landing back here, I got a valuable experience in my 3-year postdoc at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I also had the opportunity to be part of the multi-disciplinary dataLegend team, working on the development of the Dutch Digital Humanities infrastructure in the CLARIAH project.

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