Current Position
Enseignant-Chercheur (Assistant Professor)
Computer Science at CPE Lyon
Chercheur Associé (Researcher), Database Group, LIRIS
Address:
CPE Lyon (École supérieure de chimie, physique, électronique de
Lyon)
Campus LyonTech-la Doua - Bâtiment Hubert Curien,
43, bd du 11 novembre 1918,
69616 Villeurbanne CEDEX, France
Email: john.samuel_(at)_cpe_(dot)_fr
Research Interests
Data Integration, Data Warehouses, Data Analysis, Big Data, Web Services, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Multidimensional Data Modeling, Description Logic, Geographical Information Systems
PhD Thesis
Feeding a Data Warehouse with Data coming from Web Services. A Mediation Approach for the DaWeS prototype
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Past Positions
2017-2016
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Geo-modelisation Group, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne
2015-2014
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Database Group, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne
2014-2011
PhD Researcher, LIMOS, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière
2011-2009
Senior Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Bangalore
2009-2008
Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Bangalore
Current and Former Students
PhD Students
-
Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, LIRIS, University of Lyon 2, October 2020-September
2023
Title: Model-driven Integration of n-Dimensional Multisource Urban Data (PDF)
Ph.D Defense: 11 December 2023 -
Clément Colin, LIRIS, University of Lyon 2, January 2022-June 2024
Title: Gestion et visualisation multiscalaire du territoire au bâtiment. Application à la Gestion et Maintenance Assistée par Ordinateur.
Ph.D Defense: 18 June 2024 - Jey Puget Gil, LIRIS, University of Lyon, January 2023-present
Masters Students
- Marwan Ait-Addi, LIRIS, Université de Lyon 2, May 2025-September 2025
- Akin Gülfidan, LIRIS, Université de Lyon 2, April 2025-August 2025
- Pierre-Antoine Chiron, LIRIS, Université de Lyon 2, February 2025-July 2025
- Thibaut Chataing, LIRIS, University of Lyon, February 2020-July 2020
- Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, LIRIS, University of Lyon, March 2020-August 2020
Journal Publications
2025
Leveraging rules on integrated 3D semantic city models for validating scenarios of urban evolution, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Data-Centric Engineering, 2025 (Link)
2024
IMUV: A Digital Twin for Mediation to Discover and Exchange on Territories, Mathieu Livebardon, Valentin Machado, John Samuel, et al., 2024 (Link)
2024
Towards an Automated Transformation of an nD Urban Data Model to a Computational Ontology Network, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, 2024 (Link)
2023
UD-SV: Urban Data Services and Visualization Framework for Sharing Multidisciplinary Research, John Samuel, et al., Transactions in GIS, April 2023 (Link)
2023
UD-SV: Plateforme d'exploration de données urbaines multidimensionnelles, Clément Colin, et al., Mappemonde, 135, April 2023 (Link)
2022
Exploring Landscape Composition Using 2D and 3D Open Urban Vectorial Data, Frédéric Pedrinis, John Samuel, et al., ISPRS IJGI 11, no. 9: 479 (Link)
2022
Creating contextual view of CMMS assets using geospatial 2D/3D data, Clément Colin, John Samuel, et al., 3D GeoInfo 2022 (Link)
2021
Towards Limiting Semantic Data Loss in 4D Urban Data Semantic Graph Generation, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, et al., 3D GeoInfo 2021 (Outstanding paper award, Link)
2021
Integrating multimedia documents and time-evolving 3D city models for web visualization and navigation, Vincent Jaillot, et al., Transactions in GIS, March 2021 (Link)
2020
Representation of concurrent points of view of urban changes for city models, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Journal of Geographical Systems, February 2020 (Link)
2018
UrbanCo2Fab: Comprehension Of Concurrent Viewpoints Of Urban Fabric Based On GIT, John Samuel, et al., ISPRS Annals, 3D GeoInfo Conference, 2018 (Link)
2016
Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Journal on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Informatics - JADI 2016 (Link)
2016
Heterogeneous Sensor Data Exploration and Sustainable Declarative Monitoring Architecture, Sylvie Servigne, et al., ISPRS Annals, UDMS 2016 (Link)
Conference Proceedings
2025
AutoML tool for automatic PSP model card extractions, Alba Ordonez Rodriguez, et al., ICMC 2025 (Link)
2025
Automatic PSP MOSFET model card extraction powered by deep learning, Alba Ordonez Rodriguez, et al., ICMTS 2025 (Link)
2025
Versioning Virtual Reconstruction Hypotheses: Revealing Counterfactual Trajectories of the Fallen Voussoirs of Notre-Dame de Paris, Anaïs Guillem, John Samuel, et al., ESWC 2024 Satellite Events (Link)
2024
Advanced Analog Design Optimization: Comparison Between Reinforcement Learning and Heuristic Algorithms, Michel Chevalier, et al., SMACD 2024 (Link)
2024
Let the fallen Voussoirs of Notre-Dame de Paris Speak, Anaïs Guillem, John Samuel, et al., SEMMES Workshop, ESWC 2024 (Best paper award, Link)
2024
A model-driven methodology for integrating heterogeneous geospatial semantic and geometric urban data, Clément Colin, et al., AGILE 2024 (Link)
2024
Model driven transformation of CityGML towards CityOWL, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, et al., Geoinformations-systeme 2024 (Link)
2024
Artificial neural network-based solution for PSP MOSFET model card extraction, Alba Ordonez Rodriguez, et al., VLSID 2024 (Link)
2023
Storytelling about Industrial Territories in a Place using a 3D Urban Environment, Lorenzo Marnat, et al., ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop, November 2023 (Link)
2023
Graph versioning for evolving urban data, Jey Puget Gil, et al., BDA 2023 Doctoral Symposium (Link)
2023
Reinforcement Learning for Analog Sizing Optimization, Michel Chevalier, et al., SMACD 2023 (Link)
2021
Visualisation d'équipements de la maintenance à l'aide de données geospatiales, Clément Colin, et al., JFIG 2021 (Link)
2021
WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, OpenSym 2021 (Link, Slides)
2021
Towards a semantic web representation from a 3D geospatial urban data model, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, et al., SAGEO 2021 (Proceedings)
2021
ShExStatements: Simplifying Shape Expressions for Wikidata, John Samuel, Wiki Workshop 2021 (Link, Slides)
2019
Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, John Samuel, Oscar Carrillo, CATAÏ 2019 (Link, Preprint)
2018
Documenting and preserving programming languages and software in Wikidata, John Samuel, et al., SWIB 2018 (Link, Slides)
2018
Analyzing and Visualizing Translation Patterns of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, CLEF 2018 (Link, Slides)
2018
Datalog access to real-world web services, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, UNILOG 2018 (Link, PDF)
2018
Towards Understanding and Improving Multilingual Collaborative Ontology Development in Wikidata, John Samuel, Wiki Workshop 2018 (Link, PDF)
2017
Collaborative Approach to Developing a Multilingual Ontology: A Case Study of Wikidata, John Samuel, MTSR 2017 (Link)
2017
Representation and visualization of Documented Virtual Cities, John Samuel, et al., LDAC2017 (Link)
2016
Visualization of Documented 3D Cities, Clément Chagnaud, et al., UDMV 2016 (Link)
2016
Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents, John Samuel, et al., EUROGRAPHICS Workshop 2016 (Link)
2016
Challenges in Integrating Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, ICDIM 2016 (Link)
2014
Towards a Data Warehouse fed with Web Services, John Samuel, ESWC PhD Symposium 2014 (Link)
2014
DaWeS: Data Warehouse fed with Web Services, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, INFORSID 2014 (Link)
2014
An Upper Bound on the Number of Accesses for Datalog Queries, John Samuel, Benjamin Momège, BDA 2014 (Link)
Technical Reports and Preprints
2020
From CityGML to OWL, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Technical Report, LIRIS UMR 5205. 2020 (Link)
2020
A tale of two 'opens': intersections between Free and Open Source Software and Open Scholarship, Jonathan Tennant, et al., SocArXiv, March 6 2020 (Link)
Posters and Demonstrations
2024
ConVer-G: Concurrent versioning of knowledge graphs, Jey Puget Gil, et al., BDA 2024 Demonstration
2024
Advanced Analog Design Optimization: Comparison Between Reinforcement Learning and Heuristic Algorithms, Michel Chevalier, et al., DAC 2024, San Francisco
2021
Towards Understanding and Building a Multilingual and Inclusive Web, Queer in AI Workshop @ICML 2021 (Link, Poster)
2018
WikiProvenance: Are there enough references to every (known) fact on Wikidata?, Workshop on Open Citations, Bologna (Link, Poster)
2018
WikiProvenance, Hackathon showcase, Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona (Link)
2018
How can I contribute to Wikidata properties? Introducing the WDProp tool. Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona (Link, Slides)
2016
Generic Web Service Wrapper for Mediation based Data Warehousing, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, WIMS 2016 (Link)
2016
Dynamique et représentations des données patriomoniales, Gilles Gesquière, et al., Muséo Hub 4, Lille (Link)
2014
Mediation-based web services fed data warehouse, John Samuel, et al., EDA 2014 Demonstration (Link)
Mathematical Contributions
2023
OEIS A359012, Integer sequence, John Samuel (Link)
Datasets
2019
Multilingual Wikidata Property Translation Flow Dataset, Thibaut Chamard, John Samuel (Link, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3271357)
Panels
2025
Quand l'intelligence artificielle hérite de nos préjugés: comprendre et agir, Houleymatou Baldé, et al., Fête de la Science, Université Lyon 1, October 8, 2025 (Invited Session, video)
2025
Parité dans les métiers de l'informatique, Julie Digne, et al., Table Ronde Yeeso, Lyon, 23 June, 2025 (Invited Session)
2024
Intelligence artificielle et science: impact sur la réflexion et les méthodologies en SHS, Jean Gabriel Ganascia, et al., Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, November 12, 2024 (Link)
2024
Global Pride History, Missouri Historical Society, et al., October 3, 2024 (Link)
Lectures, Talks, Tutorials and Seminars
2025
Will AI Erase Us Again? The Role of Wikimedia Communities., John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2025 (slides)
2025
Célébrer nos histoires: fiertés, récits et mémoire collective, John Samuel, 50e Rencontres LGBTI+, Nantes (slides)
2025
mlscores - Multilinguality score of Wikidata items and properties, John Samuel, Data Reuse Days 2025 (slides, video)
2025
From Open Collaboration to Customized Control: Transitioning from Wikidata to Wikibase, FOSDEM 2025, Brussels (Link, Slides)
2024
De Wikidata à Wikibase: Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, John Samuel, Campus du Libre 2024, Lyon (Slides)
2024
Systèmes de médiation et intégration des données dynamiques, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, LPCA, Clermont-Ferrand (Invited Talk)
2024
Connect Wikidata and Wikipedia: the basics, John Samuel, Wikidata Leveling Up Days (video) (Invited Talk)
2024
A few useful gadgets and scripts for Wikidata, Lydia Pintscher, et al., Wikidata Leveling Up Days (video) (Invited Talk)
2024
What can I do on Wikidata?, John Samuel, et al., Wikidata Leveling Up Days (video) (Invited Talk)
2024
Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, John Samuel, Queer Data Days 2024, UCL (Invited Talk)
2023
Graphes dynamiques pour des villes en évolution, John Samuel, Café de l'IA par Tubà, TUBA Lyon (Invited Talk)
2023
Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online, John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2023 (Slides, video)
2023
Modeling The City: Past and Future Imaginations with 3D Urban Models, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Koper, Slovenia
2023
Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris (Slides)
2023
À la recherche des récits queer à travers les siècles, John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon (Slides)
2022
History Months: Writing and Narrating Local Queer Stories with Wikimedia Projects, John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2022 (Slides)
2022
Représentation en graphes pour la compréhension de l'évolution urbaine, John Samuel, GDR CNRS MAGIS (Invited Talk, Link)
2022
Jouer avec la ville!, Corentin Gauthier, John Samuel, Pint of Science, Lyon (Invited Talk)
2022
La maquette augmentée, un outil de représentation de la donnée, Anthony Angelot, et al., Hôtel de métropole, Lyon (Invited Talk)
2021
Making Scholarly Articles Findable: Towards Ensuring F of FAIR Data Principles, WikidataCon 2021 (Slides, video)
2021
Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties, ContribuLing, June 4, 2021 (Slides, Video)
2020
Building a Multilingual Command Line, Debian Conference (DebConf20) (Slides)
2017
Wikidata: Exploring more visibility and coverage of KDE Applications, Akademy 2017, Almería (Slides)
Ph.D Thesis, Journal and Conference Articles Reviewed
Ph.D Theses
- 2024 Ph.D Thesis, Chiara Bachechi, Mobility Data Management and Analytics: Digital Twins for Urban Mobility, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2024
Double-blind Reviews
Workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents (SUMAC 2025, 2024), Digital Heritage 2025, International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory (GISTAM 2020-2024), International Conference on Computer Graphics (CGVCVIP 2022-2024), and many more.
Open Reviews
Frontiers in Computer Science (2024), F1000Research (2024), Semantic Web Journal (2023, 2021), Journal of Open Source Software (2021, 2019)
Single-blind Reviews
International Conference on Web Engineering (2025), Computers Environment and Urban Systems (2024, 2025), Transactions in GIS (2023, 2020), Data-Centric Engineering (2023), ISPRS IJGI (2018-2023), and numerous others.
Nominations and Prizes
2024
Best paper award, SEMMES Workshop - ESWC (Link)
2017
4th prize, Connected Open Heritage Challenge
10th prize, UNESCO Challenge
Swedish Book prize, Swedish National Heritage Board, UNESCO Challenge
2015
Among 12 Nominees for Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Award), Clermont Ferrand
2014
Runner-up of Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Award) BDA
2006
2nd rank, Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science and Engineering, CUSAT, India
Jury
2022
Interreg Project DEAS Pitching Event Open Data Innovation Ideas, online event, 17 March, 2022
Volunteering, Mentoring, Organizing and Programme Committee
2023
BDA 2023, Montpellier (session chair, Query Processing and Optimization), October 26, 2023
2021
Inform'élevage, Make IT Agri (First prize), Season 3, 2021
2018
Akademy 2018, Vienna, 11-12 August, 2018
2018
Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 19-20 May, 2018
2017
Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, 22-23 July 2017
2017
WikidataCon 2017 Berlin, Germany, 28-29 October 2017
2017
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, Vienna, Austria, 20, 21 May 2017
2012
BDA (Bases de Données Avancées), 24-26 October 2012, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2011
BPM (Business Process Modeling), August 28-September 2, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2007
FOSS Meet, NIT Calicut, 2-4 March, Calicut, India
Selected Conference Participation
2025
10 ans de la FIL (Lyon), AGAPE AG (Rennes), IA.rbre Inauguration (Lyon), Réseau jeune recherche LGBTQI+ (Lyon), MIXIT 2025 (Lyon), Data Reuse Days 2025, GenAi4HealthCare Workshop, FOSDEM 2025 (Brussels)
2024
Wikimania 2024 (Katowice), SDSC 2024 (Athens), ESWC 2024 (Hersonissos), MIXIT 2024 (Lyon), Wikidata Leveling Up Days
2023
Wikidata Data Modelling Days 2023, BDA 2023 (Montpellier), PEPR VDBI (Lyon), WikiCamp 2023 (Narbonne), Pride in Education 6, Queering Wikipedia 2023, Colloque IA (CPE Lyon)
2021-2022
WikidataCon 2021, OpenSym 2021, Wikimania 2021, Queer in AI Workshop @ICML 2021, The Web Conference 2021, and many more events
2018-2020
SWIB 2018, 3D GeoInfo 2018, Akademy 2018, UNILOG 2018, Wiki Workshop 2018, WikidataCon 2019, XLDB 2017, and many more conferences and workshops
Education
2014-2011
PhD, Computer Science
LIMOS, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France
2008-2006
Masters of Technology (M.Tech)
Computer Science and Engineering
National
Institute of Technology (NIT) Calicut, India
2006-2002
Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech)
Computer Science and Engineering
Cochin
University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), India