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Current Position

Enseignant-Chercheur (Asst. Professor), Computer Science, 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 (Link)

Sections

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-

Masters

Thibaut Chataing, LIRIS, University of Lyon, February 2020-July 2020

Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, LIRIS, University of Lyon, March 2020-August 2020

Journals

2024

IMUV : A Digital Twin for Mediation to Discover and Exchange on Territories, Mathieu Livebardon, Valentin Machado, John Samuel, Didier Chanfray, Jean-Yves Toussaint, Gilles Gesquière, 2024 (Link)

Towards an Automated Transformation of an nD Urban Data Model to a Computational Ontology Network: From UML to OWL, From CityGML 3.0 to “CityOWL”, 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, Vincent Jaillot, Clément Colin, Diégo Vinasco Alvarez, Eric Boix, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Transactions in GIS, April 2023 (Link)

UD-SV : Plateforme d'exploration de données urbaines multidimensionnelles, Clément Colin, Corentin Gautier, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, Johanna Delanoy, Gilles Gesquière, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Éric Boix, Thibault Dupont, Mathieu Livebardon, Valentin Machado, Lorenzo Marnat, Mappemonde, 135 | 2023, April 2023 (Link)

2022

Exploring Landscape Composition Using 2D and 3D Open Urban Vectorial Data, Frédéric Pedrinis, John Samuel, Manuel Appert, Florence Jacquinod, Gilles Gesquière. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 9: 479. (Link)

Creating contextual view of CMMS assets using geospatial 2D/3D data, Clément Colin, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Christophe Bortolaso, Gilles Gesquière, 3D GeoInfo 2022, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4/W2-2022, 37–44, 2022 (Link)

2021

Towards Limiting Semantic Data Loss in 4D Urban Data Semantic Graph Generation, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, 3D GeoInfo 2021, October 11-14, Virtual, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, VIII-4/W2-2021, 37-44 (Outstanding paper award, Link)

Integrating multimedia documents and time-evolving 3D city models for web visualization and navigation, Vincent Jaillot, Valentin Rigolle, Sylvie Servigne, John Samuel, and Gilles Gesquière, 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, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume IV-4/W6, 2018 13th 3D GeoInfo Conference, 1-2 October 2018, Delft, The Netherlands (Link, PDF)

2016

Integration of Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach: Open Challenges, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Special Issue on Digital Information Management, Journal on Advances in Theoretical and Applied Informatics - JADI 2016, Volume 2, No. 2, Pages 38-46 (Link)

Heterogeneous Sensor Data Exploration and Sustainable Declarative Monitoring Architecture: Application to Smart Building, Sylvie Servigne, Yann Gripay, Ozgun Pinarer, John Samuel, Atay Ozgovde, and Jacques Jay, ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume III-4/W1, 2016, 1st International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities, 30th UDMS, 7–9 September 2016, Split, Croatia (Link)

Conference Proceedings

2024

Advanced Analog Design Optimization: Comparison Between Reinforcement Learning and Heuristic Algorithms, Michel Chevalier, Severin Trochut, Roberto Guizzetti, Pascal Urard, Lioua Labrak, Rémy Cellier, John Samuel, Nacer Abouchi, SMACD 2024, (to appear)

Let the fallen Voussoirs of Notre-Dame de Paris Speak: Scientific Narration and 3D Visualization of Virtual Reconstruction Hypotheses and Reasoning, Anaïs Guillem, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Livio De Luca, Violette Abergel, Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2024), May 27, 2024, Hersonissos, Greece, (Best paper award, Link)

A model-driven methodology for integrating heterogeneous geospatial semantic and geometric urban data, Clément Colin, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Christophe Bortolaso, Gilles Gesquiere, AGILE 2024, Glasgow, June 4-7, 2024. (Link)

Model driven transformation of CityGML towards CityOWL: from a 3D urban data model to a computational ontology, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquiere, Geoinformations-systeme 2024, Munich, March 18-19, 2024. (Link)

Artificial neural network-based solution for PSP MOSFET model card extraction, Alba Ordonez Rodriguez, Fabien Gilibert, Francois Paolini, Pascal Urard, Roberto Guizzetti, John Samuel, Remy Cellier, Lioua Labrak, Bastien Deveautour, VLSID 2024, Kolkata, January 6-10, 2024 (Link)

2023

Storytelling about Industrial Territories in a Place using a 3D Urban Environment, Lorenzo Marnat, Clémentine Périnaud, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities, November 13, 2023 (Link)

Graph versioning for evolving urban data, Jey Puget Gil, Emmanuel Coquery, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Doctoral Symposium, BDA 2023 (39ème Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications) (Link)

Reinforcement Learning for Analog Sizing Optimization, Michel Chevalier, Severin Trochut, Roberto Guizzetti, Pascal Urard, Lioua Labrak, John Samuel, Rémy Cellier, Nacer Abouchi, SMACD 2023, July 3-5 2023 (Link)

2021

Visualisation d’équipements de la maintenance à l’aide de données geospatiales, Clément Colin, Sylvie Servigne, John Samuel, Youssef Miloudi, Gilles Gesquiere, Les journées Françaises de l'Informatique Graphique (JFIG 2021), 24-26 November 2021, Sophia Antipolis, France (Link)

WDProp: Web Application to Analyse Multilingual Aspects of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, OpenSym 2021, 15-17 September 2021, Madrid (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF), Short Presentation Slides (HTML))

Towards a semantic web representation from a 3D geospatial urban data model, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, SAGEO 2021 (Proceedings)

ShExStatements: Simplifying Shape Expressions for Wikidata , John Samuel, Wiki Workshop 2021 (held at The Web Conference 2021), 14 April 2021 (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF), Transcript)

2019

Analysing Translation of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, WikidataCon 2019, Berlin, 26 October 2019 (Link, Slides (HTML), PDF, video)

Analysis of Urban Information of Colombia on Wikidata, John Samuel, Oscar Carrillo, CATAÏ (Collaboration France-Colombie en Technologies de l'Information et la Communication pour le Developpement Durable et l'Innovation) 2019, Bogotá, Colombia, 23-24 October 2019 (Link, Preprint, Slides (HTML))

2018

Documenting and preserving programming languages and software in Wikidata, John Samuel, Katherine Thornton, Kenneth Seals-Nutt, SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) 2018, 26-28 November 2018, Bonn, Germany (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF), Video)

Analyzing and Visualizing Translation Patterns of Wikidata Properties, John Samuel, CLEF 2018, Avignon, France, 10-14 September, 2018, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11018. Springer, Cham (Link, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF))

Datalog access to real-world web services, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Logic for Dynamic Real-World Information Workshop, UNILOG 2018 (6th World Congress and School on Universal Logic Handbook ISBN: 978-2-9544948-1-4), Vichy, France, 25 June 2018 (Link, PDF, Slides (HTML), Slides (PDF))

Towards Understanding and Improving Multilingual Collaborative Ontology Development in Wikidata, John Samuel, Wiki Workshop 2018 (held at The Web Conference 2018), Lyon, France, 24 April 2018 (Link, PDF, Open access, Slides)

2017

Collaborative Approach to Developing a Multilingual Ontology: A Case Study of Wikidata, John Samuel, Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 755. Springer, Cham (Link)

Representation and visualization of Documented Virtual Cities, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Sylvie Servigne, LDAC2017 - 5th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Dijon, France, 14 November, 2017 (Link)

2016

Visualization of Documented 3D Cities, Clément Chagnaud, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, UDMV 2016, Liège, Belgium, Decembre 8, 2016 (Link)

Representation and Visualization of Urban Fabric through Historical Documents, John Samuel, Clémentine Périnaud, Sylvie Servigne, Georges Gay, Gilles Gesquière, 14th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Genova, Italy, October 5-7, 2016 (Link)

Challenges in Integrating Multiple Heterogeneous and Autonomous Web Services using Mediation Approach, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, 11th International Conference on Digital Information Management, Porto, Portugal, September 19-21, 2016 (Link)

2014

Towards a Data Warehouse fed with Web Services, John Samuel, In The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges - 11th International Conference, ESWC PhD Symposium, Volume 8465 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 874–884. ( Link)

DaWeS: Data Warehouse fed with Web Services John Samuel, Christophe Rey, In Actes du XXXIIème Congrès INFORSID, Lyon, France, 20-23 Mai 2014., pp. 329–344. (Link, PDF)

An Upper Bound on the Number of Accesses for Datalog α Last Queries, John Samuel, Benjamin Momège, Base de Données Avancées (BDA), Autrans, Grenbole, France, 14-17 Octobre, Session Jeune Chercheur. (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, Ritwik Agarwal, Ksenija Baždarić, David Brassard, Tom Crick, Daniel Dunleavy, Thomas Evans, Nicholas Gardner, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Daniel Graziotin, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Daniel Gunnarsson, Johanna Havemann, Mohammad Hosseini, Daniel Katz, Marcel Knöchelmann, Christopher Madan, Paolo Manghi, Alberto Marocchino, Paola Masuzzo, Peter Murray-Rust, Sanjay Narayanaswamy, Gustav Nilsonne, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Bart Penders, Olivier Pourret, Michael Rera, John Samuel Tobias Steiner, Jadranka Stojanovski, Alejandro Uribe-Tirado, Rutger Vos, Simon Worthington, Tal Yarkoni, SocArXiv, March 6 2020, (Link)

Posters and Demonstrations

2024

ConVer-G: Concurrent versioning of knowledge graphs, Jey Puget Gil, Emmanuel Coquery, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Demonstration, BDA 2024 (40ème Conférence sur la Gestion de Données – Principes, Technologies et Applications)

Advanced Analog Design Optimization: Comparison Between Reinforcement Learning and Heuristic Algorithms, Michel Chevalier, Antoine Valérian Vialle, Jules Antonin Eric Coulon, Severin Pierre Trochut, Roberto Guizzetti, Pascal A. Urard, Lioua Labrak, Rémy Cellier, John Samuel, Nacer Abouchi, DAC 2024, San Francisco, June 23-27, 2024 (to appear)

2021

Towards Understanding and Building a Multilingual and Inclusive Web, Queer in AI Workshop @ICML 2021, July 19, 2021 (Link, Poster)

2018

WikiProvenance: Are there enough references to every (known) fact on Wikidata?, Workshop on Open Citations, Bologna, Italy, September 3-5, 2018 (Link, PDF, Poster)

WikiProvenance, Hackathon showcase, Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 20th May 2018 (Link)

How can I contribute to Wikidata properties? Introducing the WDProp tool. Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 20th May, 2018 (Link, Slides)

2016

Generic Web Service Wrapper for Mediation based Data Warehousing, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS), Nîmes, France, June 13-15 (Link)

Dynamique et représentations des données patriomoniales, Gilles Gesquière, Frédéric Pedrinis, John Samuel, MuséoHub 4, Maquettes et restitutions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France, April 20. Poster ( Link)

2014

Mediation-based web services fed data warehouse, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, Franck Martin, Lionel Peyron, In Journées francophones sur les Entrepôts de Données et l’Analyse en ligne (EDA), Vichy, Volume B-10 of RNTI, Paris, pp. 159–162. Hermann. 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, 10.5281/zenodo.3271357)

Panels

2024

Intelligence artificielle et science : impact sur la réflexion et les méthodologies en SHS, Jean Gabriel Ganascia, Ludovic Moncla, Jordan Navarro, Emmanuelle Reynaud, Alberto Romele, John Samuel, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Lyon, November 12, 2024 (Link)

Global Pride History, Missouri Historical Society, Rodney Wilson, Sue Sanders, Norena Shopland, Victoria Sulyok, Bill Schiller, Sarah Guarino Werner, Keio Soomelt, Meryem Benslimane, Alessio Ponzio, Raul Perez Monzon, John Samuel, Ruby Loretta, Clare O'Leary, October 3, 2024 (Link)

2023

Modelling Gender on Wikidata, Arielle Rodriguez, Beatrice Melis, Chiara Paolini, Crystal Yragui, Daniele Metilli, Katy Weathington, Marta Fioravanti, John Samuel, Wikidata Data Modelling Days 2023, December 2, 2023 (Invited Session, Link, Slides, Video)

2021

Modeling and Documenting Queer Voices and Topics on Wikidata, Panel on Metadata and Gender Diversity, Amber Billey, Clair A Kronk, John Samuel, Rachel Ivy Clarke, Sayward Schoonmaker, DCMI Virtual 2021, October 8, 2021 (Invited Session, Slides, PDF, video)

Lectures, Talks, Tutorials and Seminars

2024

De Wikidata à Wikibase : Pour une meilleure compréhension de vos données, John Samuel, Campus du Libre 2024, Lyon, November 23, 2024(Slides HTML)

Systèmes de médiation et intégration des données dynamiques, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, (online) LPCA, Clermont-Ferrand, November 14, 2024 (Invited Talk)

Connect Wikidata and Wikipedia: the basics, John Samuel, Wikidata Leveling Up Days, April 12, 2024 (video) (Invited Talk)

A few useful gadgets and scripts for Wikidata, Lydia Pintscher, TiagoLubiana, Epìdosis, John Samuel, Wikidata Leveling Up Days, April 7, 2024 (video) (Invited Talk)

What can I do on Wikidata?, John Samuel, Ambrosia10, Spinster, Wikidata Leveling Up Days, April 5, 2024 (video) (Invited Talk)

Narrating Queer History with Wikidata, John Samuel, Queer Data Days 2024 (University College London Department of Information Studies), March 15, 2024 (Invited Talk)

2023

Graphes dynamiques pour des villes en évolution, John Samuel, Café de l'IA par Tubà, TUBA Lyon, December 14, 2023 (Invited Talk)

International - LGBTQ+ History Months Around the World, Rodney Wilson, Ugandan representative, John Samuel, Rául Pérez Monzón, Chiara Beccalossi, Pride in Education 6, May 20, 2023

Making Queer Faces and Voices Visible and Audible Online: The role of Wikipedia and Wikidata, John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2023, May 17 (Slides HTML, video)

Modeling The City: Past and Future Imaginations with 3D Urban Models, John Samuel, Gilles Gesquière, Enhancing and transmitting placemaking knowledge: Pedagogies of placemaking (COST Action CA18204 - Dynamics of placemaking and digitization in Europe´s cities), Koper, Slovenia, May 10, 2023

Documenter l'histoire queer sur Wikidata, Queer Data : les plateformes numériques d'archives, Collectif Archives LGBTQI+, Paris, April 23 2023 (Slides HTML)

À la recherche des récits queer à travers les siècles (French), John Samuel, SASS Queer 2023, INSA Lyon, (organized by the association - EXIT Lyon), March 29 2023 (Link, Slides HTML)

Mémoires minoritaires, mémoires LGBTI (French), Radio pluriel, January 11 2023 19h-21h (Link)

2022

History Months: Writing and Narrating Local Queer Stories with Wikimedia Projects, John Samuel, Queering Wikipedia 2022, October 21 2022 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF)

Représentation en graphes pour la compréhension de l’évolution urbaine, John Samuel, "Graphes de connaissances géohistoriques" GDR CNRS MAGIS, October 20 2022 (Invited Talk, Link)

Jouer avec la ville !, Corentin Gauthier, John Samuel, Pint of Science, Brasserie de l'Amour, Lyon, May 11, 2022 (Invited Talk)

La maquette augmentée, un outil de représentation de la donnée, Anthony Angelot, John Samuel, Corentin Gauthier, Hôtel de métropole, Lyon, May 5, 2022 (Invited Talk)

2021

Un point de vue extérieur : Restitution interactive et immersive de données multidimensionnelles spatio-temporelles, John Samuel, Séminaire de clôture du projet ALEGORIA, December 16, 2021 (Invited Talk)

Making Scholarly Articles Findable: Towards Ensuring F of FAIR Data Principles, WikidataCon 2021, October 31, 2021 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF, video)

Towards a Standards-based Semantic Web Representation of 4D Urban Data, Diego Vinasco-Alvarez, John Samuel, Sylvie Servigne, Gilles Gesquière, OGC University Domain Working Group - Next generation of geospatial experts, September 9, 2021

Explore, Analyse and Translate Multilingual Wikidata Properties, ContribuLing, June 4, 2021 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF, Video)

2020

Building a Multilingual Command Line, Debian Conference (DebConf20), August 25, 2020 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF, Transcript)

2019

Thinking and Building together a Sustainable City, Database team, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, France, January 25, 2019

2017

Rethinking the command line, Capitole du Libre, Toulouse, France, November 19, 2017 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF, Video)

Representation and Visualization of Documented 3D Cities (Rehearsal), Géomod team, LIRIS, Université de Lyon, France, November 10, 2017

Introduction to Wikidata, Andra Waagmeester, Envel Le Hir, Thomas Pellissier Tanon, John Samuel, XLDB 2017 Wikidata Hackathon, Royat, France, October 12 (Additional slides)

Wikidata: Exploring more visibility and coverage of KDE Applications, John Samuel, Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, July 22 (Slides HTML, Slides PDF)

2016

A Declarative Approach to Information Extraction Using Web Service API, John Samuel, Christophe Rey, International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), USI Lugano, Switzerland, June 7

2015

Integration and Analysis of Data from Heterogeneous Web Services, ERIC, Université de Lyon 2, Bron, France, March 23.

2007

Introduction to Linux Kernel, FOSS Meet, NIT Calicut, March 4, Calicut, India

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

2024
  • Workshop on analySis, Understanding and proMotion of heritAge Contents (SUMAC 2024) (Link)
  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2024) (Link)
  • International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP 2024) (Link)
2023
  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2023) (Link)
  • International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP 2023) (Link)
2022
  • International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP 2022) (Link)
  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2022) (Link)
2021
  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2021) (Link)
2020
  • International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management (GISTAM 2020) (Link)

Open Reviews

2024
  • Frontiers in Computer Science (Link)
  • F1000Research (Link)
2023
  • Semantic Web Journal (Link)
2021
  • Journal of Open Source Software (Link)
  • Semantic Web Journal (Link)
2019
  • Journal of Open Source Software (Link)

Single-blind Reviews

2024
  • Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (Link)
2023
  • Transactions in GIS (Link)
  • Data-Centric Engineering (Link)
  • Computer Science (Link)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
2022
  • 3rd Wikidata Workshop (Link)
  • Computer Science (Link)
  • Remote Sensing (Link)
  • MAKE (Link)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
  • Applied Sciences (Link)
  • Future Internet (Link)
2021
  • 2nd Wikidata Workshop (Link)
  • Entropy (Link)
  • Algorithms (Link)
  • Information (Link)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
  • Remote Sensing (Link)
  • Symmetry (Link)
2020
  • Information (Link)
  • Future Internet (Link)
  • Algorithms (Link)
  • Transactions in GIS (Link)
  • Sustainability (Link)
  • Mathematics (Link)
  • Revue Humanités numériques (Link)
  • Journal on Data Semantics (Link)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
2019
  • Information (Link)
  • Algorithms (Link)
  • Energies (Link)
  • Applied Sciences (Link)
  • 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (Link)
2018
  • Future Internet (Link)
  • Data (Link)
  • ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (Link)
  • Symmetry (Link)
  • Applied Sciences (Link)

Nominations and Prizes

2024

Best paper award, SEMMES Workshop - ESWC (Link)

2021

Outstanding paper award, 3D GeoInfo 2021 (Link, Video)

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, Hôtel de Ville, Clermont Ferrand, France, March 19 (Article on La Montagne)

2014

Runner-up of Prix Jeune Chercheur (Young Researcher Award) BDA

2006

2nd rank, Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science and Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology (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

Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 19-20 May, 2018

2017

Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, 22-23 July 2017

WikidataCon 2017 Berlin, Germany, 28-29 October 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

Conferences, Seminars and Workshops Attended

2024

Wikimania 2024, Katowice, Poland, August 7-10, 2024

SDSC 2024, Athens, Greece, June 4-7, 2024

ESWC 2024, Hersonissos, Greece, May 27-30, 2024

MIXIT 2024, Lyon, April 25-26, 2024

Wikidata Leveling Up Days 2024, April 5-7, 12-14, 2024

2023

Wikidata Data Modelling Days 2023, November 30-December 2, 2023

BDA 2023, Montpellier, October 24-26, 2023

PEPR VDBI - Journées Scientifiques, Lyon, October 16-17, 2023

WikiCamp 2023, Narbonne, July 7-9, 2023

Pride in Education 6, May 20, 2023

Queering Wikipedia 2023, May 14 and 17, 2023

Enhancing and transmitting placemaking knowledge: Pedagogies of placemaking (COST Action CA18204 - Dynamics of placemaking and digitization in Europe´s cities), Ljubjana and Koper, Slovenia, May 8 to 12, 2023

Colloque IA, CPE Lyon, 28 March, 2023

2022

Journées IMU « la transition urbaine dans tous ses états », 17-18 November, 2022

2021

Journée FIL MADD – Mégadonnées Autour Des Disciplines, 25 November, 2021

Science Mesh in Social Media Analytics and Astronomy - Collaborative Documents and On-Demand data transfers, virtual event, November 17, 2021

WikidataCon 2021, Online event, 29-31 October, 2021

OpenSym 2021, virtual event, September 15-17, 2021

Wikimania 2021, virtual event, August 14-17, 2021

Seventh Grammatical Framework Summer School 2021, virtual event, July 26-30, 2021

Queer in AI Workshop @ICML 2021, virtual event, July 19, 2021

Queering Wikipedia 2021 User Group Working Days, virtual event, May 14-16, 2021

Science Mesh in High Energy Physics and Endangered Linguistics - Open Data Systems & Data Science Environments, virtual event, May 6, 2021

SciDoLySE (Science des Données à Lyon et Saint-Etienne) 2021, virtual event, May 10, 2021

SAGEO (Spatial Analysis and GEOmatics) 2021, virtual event, May 5-7, 2021

The Web Conference, virtual event, April 12-23, 2021

Wiki Workshop 2021, virtual event, 14 April, 2021

Du Big Data à l'IA : Pourquoi et comment partager les données ?, CPE Lyon, France, 20th January, 2021

2020

#EUvsVirus Pan-European Hackathon, virtual event, 24-26 April, 2020

Wiki Workshop 2020, virtual event, 21 April, 2020

COVID-19-BH20, virtual event, 5-11 April, 2020

Nous sommes tous concernés par l’IA, quid de nos responsabilités éthiques?, CPE Lyon, France, 9th January, 2020

2019

Wiki Techstorm 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-23 November, 2019

WikidataCon 2019, Berlin, Germany, 24-26 October, 2019

Knowledge Summit 2 (Indo-French Summit on Higher Education, Research and Innovation), Lyon, France, 17-18 October, 2019

WikiConvention Francophone 2019, Brussels, Belgium, 6-8 September, 2019

Wikipedia for Peace at Europride 2019, Vienna, Austria, 13-16 June, 2019

Obsolescence programmée: le renouveau des matériels?", CPE Lyon, France, 4th June, 2019

L'éthique et la place de l'Homme au sein de l'IA, CPE Lyon, France, 23rd January, 2019

Journées de l'Enseignement Supérieur, CPE Lyon, France, 23rd January, 2019

2018

SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) 2018, 26-27 November 2018, Bonn, Germany

3D GeoInfo Conference, Delft, 1-2 October 2018, The Netherlands

Workshop on Open Citations, Bologna, Italy, September 3-4, 2018

Akademy 2018, Vienna, 11-12 August, 2018

UNILOG 2018, Vichy, 24-26 June, 2018

Wikimedia Hackathon 2018, Barcelona, 19-20 May, 2018

Wiki Workshop 2018 (held at The Web Conference 2018), Lyon, France, 24 April 2018

Enseigner autrement: Apprentissage Par Problème, Par Projet, Classe inversée, CPE Lyon, France, 29th January, 2018

Big data, robots et intelligences artificielles! Quelle dynamique éthique pour nos nouvelles technologies numériques?, CPE Lyon, France, 24th January, 2018

2017

LDAC2017 - 5th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Dijon, France, 14 November, 2017

WikidataCon 2017 Berlin, Germany, 28-29 October 2017

XLDB 2017 Wikidata Hackathon, Royat, France, 12 October 2017

GaMe IT Workshop 1.0, MIT City Science Lab Beyond Smart Cities, CPE Lyon, 25 September 2017

Akademy 2017, Almería, Spain, 22-23 July 2017

Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, Vienna, Austria, 20, 21 May 2017

2016

Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, Liège, Belgium, December 8, 2016

Journée IMU: Habiter les mondes urbains, Lyon, November 17, 2016

ALARIC workshop (Approches documentaires et approches sensibles d’un ancien territoire industriel : Vaise (Lyon)), Lyon, October 18, 2016

EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage, Genova, Italy, October 5-7, 2016

International Conference on Digital Information Management, Porto, Portugal, September 19-21, 2016

International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS), Nîmes, France, June 13-15

International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), USI, Lugano, Switzerland, June 7

École Géomatique du GDR MAGIS, Saint-Paul-en-Jarez, France, May 30-June 3

Information géographique 3D et pratique scientifique, IUT, Lyon, France, May 4

Gamagora Game Show, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France, April 29

MuséoHub 4, Palais des Beaux Arts, Lille, France, April 20

2015

TEDxINSA, May 7, INSA Lyon, France

MiniDeb Conf, April 11-12, Lyon, France

2014

INFORSID, 20-23 May, Lyon, France

ESWC (Extended Semantic Web Conference), May 25-29, Heraklion, Greece

EDA (Entrepôts de Données et l’Analyse en ligne), June 5-6, Vichy, France

BDA (Bases de Données Avancées), 14-17 October, Autrans, Grenbole, France

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

Apache Hadoop India Summit, February 16, Bangalore, India

Research Carnival, Yahoo!, April 2, Bangalore, India

2009

Sun Tech Days, 18-20 February, Hyderabad, India

2007

FOSS Meet, NIT Calicut, 2-4 March, Calicut, India

2006

Workshop on Algorithms for Data Streams, IIT Kanpur, December 18-20, Kanpur, India

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

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