14 rue du Cherche-Midi
75006 Paris
France

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✉ pierre@senellart.com
http://pierre.senellart.com/

French, born 19 June 1981.

Education

December 2007

PhD thesis in Computer science, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.

Topic: Understanding the Hidden Web. Mention Très Honorable.

September 2003

Magistère (postgraduate diploma) in Fundamental and applied mathematics and Computer science, Université Paris-Sud & ENS, Orsay & Paris, France.

September 2003

DEA (M.Sc.) in Computer science, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France.

Mention Très Bien (summa cum laude).

September 2001

Maîtrise (undergraduate diploma) in Computer science, Université Paris-Sud & ENS, Orsay & Paris, France.

Mention Très Bien (summa cum laude).

June 2001

Licence (B.Sc.) in Computer science, Université Paris-Sud & ENS, Orsay & Paris, France.

Mention Très Bien (summa cum laude).

2000 – 2005

École normale supérieure (Paris).

Also admitted to Écoles normales supérieures of Lyon and Cachan and to École polytechnique.

June 1998

Baccalauréat S (scientific high school diploma), Lycée Mariette, Boulogne-sur-mer, France.

Mention Très Bien (summa cum laude).

Employment history

June 2008 – Present

Associate professor, École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, Paris, France.

Network and Computer Science department.

February 2008 – May 2008

Teaching assistant, École normale supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France.

Labs for a course on databases.

February 2008 – May 2008

Post-doctoral researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Databases and Information Systems department.

September 2005 – May 2008

PhD student and teaching assistant, Université Paris-Sud & INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France.

Topic: Understanding the hidden Web.

Advisor: Serge Abiteboul.

64hr of teaching a year.

March 2007 – May 2007

Visting research student, Oxford computing laboratory, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Topic: data exchange

Advisor: Georg Gottlob.

November 2004 – February 2005

Software author, SYSTRAN S.A., La Défense, France.

SYSTRAN Mobile for Pocket PC.

2003 – 2005

Part-time teaching assistant, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, Marne-la-Vallée, France.

C++ course for first-year students (2 semesters, 60 hour each).

September 2003 – September 2004

R&D engineer, SYSTRAN S.A., La Défense, France.

SYSTRAN version 5.

March 2003 – August 2003

Research intern (master), INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France.

Topic: Identifying logical websites.

Advisor: Serge Abiteboul.

September 2002 – October 2002

Software engineer, Le Robert, Paris, France.

Analysis of the dictionary graph and automatic extraction of similar words.

February 2002 – June 2002

Research intern, Chalmers Tekhniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden.

Topic: automatic verification of multipliers.

Advisor: Mary Sheeran.

June 2001 – July 2001

Research intern, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium.

Topic: automatic extraction of similar words in a dictionary.

Advisor: Vincent Blondel.

Information technology

Programming languages

C, C++, Java, Perl, Haskell 98

Operating systems

Unix (Linux, SunOS, FreeBSD), Microsoft Windows (95/98/Me/XP, CE), Palm OS

XML technologies

DOM, SAX, DTD, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, XQuery, XSL-FO

Web

(X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, SVG

DBMS

SQL, Oracle, MySQL

Miscellaneous

LaTeX, Maple, Oracle, Unicode

Languages

French

native language

English

fluent

German

proficient

Classical Arabic

basics

Swedish

basics

Ancient Greek

high-school level

Selected publications

This is only a selection. A full list can be found at http://pierre.senellart.com/publications/

• S. Abiteboul, T-H. H. Chan, E. Kharlamov, W. Nutt, and P. Senellart, Aggregate Queries for Discrete and Continuous Probabilistic XML. In Proc. ICDT, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2010. (pdf | bib)
• A. Galland, S. Abiteboul, A. Marian, and P. Senellart, Corroborating Information from Disagreeing Views. In Proc. WSDM, pp. 1041–1064, New York, USA, February 2010. (pdf | slides | bib)
• G. Gottlob and P. Senellart, Schema Mapping Discovery from Data Instances. Journal of the ACM, vol. 57, 2, January 2010. (pdf | bib)
• S. Abiteboul, B. Kimelfeld, Y. Sagiv, and P. Senellart, On the Expressiveness of Probabilistic XML Models. VLDB Journal, vol. 18, 5, pp. 1041–1064, October 2009. (pdf | bib)
• P. Senellart and V. D. Blondel, Automatic discovery of similar words. In M. W. Berry and M. Castellanos, editors, Survey of Text Mining II: Clustering, Classification and Retrieval, pp. 25–44. Springer-Verlag, January 2008. (pdf | bib)
• Y. Ollivier and P. Senellart, Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: An Illustration with Wikipedia. In Proc. AAAI, pp. 1427–1433, Vancouver, Canada, July 2007. (pdf | slides | slides, short | website | bib)

Miscellany

• Submission chair of VLDB 2009.
• Member of the program committee of ICDE 2010, WWW 2009, ECML/PKDD 2008, various workshops.
• Member of the repeatability committee of SIGMOD 2008 and 2009.
• External reviewer for various conferences, including PODS, SIGMOD, WWW, VLDB, EDBT.
• Reviewer for journals such as Journal of Computer Science and Systems, VLDB Journal, Information Systems, Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Communications of the ACM.