About me
Research Staff Member
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
I am a member of the Next Generation Web Research group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, in Hawthorne, New York, USA. I am a Research Staff Member in the Scalable XML Infrastructure department, where our work ranges from XPath 2.0 formal semantics, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, Querying in the face of Ontologies and Inferencing, etc. See XML Research at IBM. Formerly, I worked at Bell Laboratories for 5 years and INRIA for 4 years. I graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in France and obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université D'Orsay.
My research interests are in databases, programming languages, distributed programming, semantics, optimization, and formal methods. Most recently, I have been working on XML and Web services, notably XML query and schema languages. I am the main developer of Galax, one of the first XQuery 1.0 implementations and an editor of 3 W3C specifications: XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0, and the XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics.
News
- I am co-chairing the XIME-P 2007 workshop, which will be held in Beijing, China, on June 15 2007 along with SIGMOD.
- XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 are W3C Recommendations
- The latest version of Galax (open-source implementation of XQuery 1.0, XQuery Update Facility, XQueryP, XQuery!, and Distributed XQuery) is available here.