Manolescu Goujot, Ioana Gabriela (1975-....)

Ioana Manolescu is a senior researcher at Inria Saclay and a part-time professor at Ecole Polytechnique, France. She is the lead of the CEDAR INRIA team focusing on rich data analytics at cloud scale. She is also the scientific director of LabIA, a program ran by the French government where AI problems raised by branches of the local and national French public administration are tackled by French research teams. She is a member of the PVLDB Endowment Board of Trustees, and has been Associate Editor for PVLDB, president of the ACM SIGMOD PhD Award Committee, chair of the IEEE ICDE conference, and a program chair of EDBT, SSDBM, ICWE among others. She has co-authored more than 150 articles in international journals and conferences and co-authored books on « Web Data Management » and on « Cloud-based RDF Data Management ». Her main research interests are algebraic and storage optimizations for semistructured data, in particular Semantic Web graphs, novel data models and languages for complex data management, data models and algorithms for fact-checking and data journalism, a topic where she is collaborating with journalists from Le Monde. She is also a recipient of the ANR AI Chair titled « SourcesSay: Intelligent Analysis and Interconnexion of Heterogeneous Data in Digital Arenas » (2020-2024).