Web of Data

Fabien earned his PhD in 2002, pioneering the combined use of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) and the semantic Web to manage diverse data sources and users within a Web architecture. As a research project leader at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), he developed an AI method to enforce privacy preferences in querying and reasoning about personal data. In 2004, he joined Inria as a researcher, focusing on models and algorithms to integrate social media with knowledge-based AI systems on the Web, supporting human interaction. By 2012, Fabien became Inria's representative at W3C and founded Wimmics, a research team of 50 members from UCA, Inria, CNRS, and I3S, dedicated to bridging social and formal semantics on the Web using AI methods. In 2014, he was promoted to Research Director (DR). Throughout his career, he has supervised 10 PhDs, chaired major international conferences such as WWW 2012 and 2018, and published extensively with 23 journal papers, 136 conference and workshop papers, 2 books, and 11 book chapters. In 2015, Fabien launched a series of bilingual MOOCs on semantic Web and linked data. In 2017, he founded the QWANT-Inria joint research laboratory and became responsible for the research convention between the Ministry of Culture and Inria. By 2018, he was appointed Vice Head of Science at Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée.

Catherine Faron Zucker holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris 6 and currently serves as an Associate Professor at the University Côte d’Azur. She teaches in the Computer Science department at Polytech Nice Sophia, where she is responsible for a training program on Web Science. Catherine also serves as the vice-head of the Wimmics research team at Inria SAM and the I3S laboratory. Her research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with graphs on the Web. Her work aims to assist epistemic Web communities in accessing, capitalizing on, and sharing digital resources and knowledge. As the scientific leader of multiple research projects, Catherine’s expertise spans various application fields, including e-Education, Cultural Heritage, Health, and B2B.