Fabien Gandon

Fabien Gandon is a Research Director and Senior Researcher at Inria, France.

Fabien's PhD in 2002 pioneered the joint use of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) and the Semantic Web to manage a variety of data sources and users above a eb architecture. Then, as a research project leader at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), he proposed AI methods to enforce privacy preferences in querying and reasoning about personal data. In 2004, having been recruited as a researcher at Inria, he began to study models and algorithms to integrate socialmedia and knowledge-based AI systems on the Web while keeping humans in the loop. In 2012 Fabien became the representative of Inria atW3C and foundedWimmics, a joint research teamworking on bridging social and formal semantics on theWebwith AImethods. In 2017 he established and became the Director of the Joint Research Laboratory between Inria the Qwant search engine. The same year he also became responsible for the research convention between the Ministry of Culture and Inria with a special interest for cultural data and applications. In 2018 Fabien became Vice Head of Science for the research center of Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée. Over the years and since 2002, Fabien also never stopped teaching Semantic Web and Linked Data, and he has authored several Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the topic.