Seminário dePatrick Valduriez (Inria France), Emeritus Senior Scientist
Scientific Director of the Inria-Brasil International Lab

Dia 04/05 (quinta-feira), 14 horas, Sala H-324B.
Transmissão ao vivo no Canal do PESC no YouTube.

Title: Data Science and Innovation

Abstract:
Data science and innovation have become overloaded terms, leading to some confusion. To be successful, the innovation process involves not only inventions (e.g., new methods) but also context, e.g., user behavior, and timing, e.g., market readiness. In this talk, I discuss the potential impact of data science on innovation, using selected success stories. I also discuss innovation within the Inria-Brasil strategic partnership.

Short Bio:
Patrick Valduriez is an emeritus senior scientist at Inria, France, the scientific director of the Inria-Brasil international lab. and the Chief Scientist Officer of the LeanXcale company (that delivers a news generation NewSQL database). He has been consulting for major companies in USA (HP Labs, Lucent Bell Labs, NERA, LECG, Microsoft), Europe (ESA, Eurocontrol, Ask, Shell) and France (Bull, Capgemini, Matra, Murex, Orsys, Schlumberger, Sodifrance, Teamlog).

He is currently a member of the Zenith team (between Inria and University of Montpellier at the LIRMM lab.) that focuses on data science, in particular data management in large-scale distributed and parallel systems and scientific data management. He has authored and co-authored more than 200 technical papers and several textbooks, among which “Principles of Distributed Database Systems” (with Professor Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo). He currently serves as associate editor of the Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. He has served as PC chair of major conferences such as SIGMOD and VLDB. He was the general chair of SIGMOD 2004, EDBT 2008 and VLDB 2009.

He received several best paper awards, including VLDB 2000. He was the recipient of the 1993 IBM scientific prize in Computer Science in France and the 2014 Innovation Award from Inria and the French Academy of Science. He is an ACM Fellow.