About me
Research Staff Member
T.J. Watson Research Center - Hawthorne
19 Skyline Drive, Room 3N-J25
Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532
Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)
Bio:Jérôme Siméon is a Researcher at IBM T.J. Watson, and a member of the Scalable XML Infrastructure Group. He holds a degree in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, a degree in electrical engineering from Supelec, and a Ph.D. from Université d'Orsay.
Jérôme is a co-designer for XQuery 1.0, the W3C XML query language, XPath 2.0, and for the XQuery update, and XQuery scripting extensions.
With more than 10 years of research and software development experience in the areas of databases, information integration, XML, and Web programming, Jérôme has published over 50 papers in scientific journals and conferences, and received the best paper award at the 1st International Semantic Web Conference for his work on "Building the Semantic Web on XML". He is an active member of the database community, co-organizing the WebDB'2001, PLAN-X'2005, XIME-P'2007 workshops, serving on more than 30 program committees and an associate editor for ACM TOIT (Transactions on Internet Technology journal).
With Mary Fernandez, he is also a project lead for the Galax open-source XQuery processor, and co-authored "XQuery from the Experts" (Addison Wesley, 2004). Before joining IBM, Jérôme worked at Bell Laboratories (1999-2004) and INRIA (1995-1999).
Last updated 24 Nov 2008