Laure Berti-Equille
Laure Berti-Equille is a Research Director in Computer Science at IRD, the French Institute of Research in Sustainability Science since 2011. Before, she was a full Professor at Aix-Marseille University (AMU) in France (2017-2018). From 2014-2017, she was a Senior Scientist of Qatar Computing Research Institute (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), a research institute in Computer Science from Qatar Foundation. From 2000-2010, she was a tenured Associate Professor at University of Rennes 1 in France, and a 2-years visiting researcher at AT&T Labs Research in New Jersey, USA, as a recipient of the prestigious European Marie Curie Outgoing Fellowship (2007-2009). Her research work is at the intersection of large-scale data analytics and machine learning with a focus on data quality, data cleaning and preparation, and applied research with many collaborations with industries and more than 80 publications and three monographs. She organized several scientific workshops in conjunction with top-tier conferences such as SIGMOD and VLDB and gave many tutorials and keynote talks (KDD, CIKM, ICDE, ICDM). Laure is serving as an associated editor of various scientific journals: VLDB Journal, ACM Journal on Data and Information Quality, and Frontiers in Big Data Science, and served in many conference program committees (VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE). She has received various grants from the French Agency for National Research (ANR), the French National Research Council (CNRS), and the European Union.