Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Through 2019 competitive hiring, the team has doubled its number of senior members: Oana Bǎlǎlǎu has been hired on an Inria Starting Researcher Position (SRP), and she joined in november; Angelos Anadiotis has been hired as a Gaspard Monge Assistant Professor at Ecole Polytechnique within the team.

• I. Manolescu and M. Buron have demonstrated the ConnectionLens system to the Defense Minister Florence Parly, as part of DataIA's showing for her visit at Inria, in April 2019 (https://team.inria.fr/cedar/connectionlens/). The national Inria director Bruno Sportisse, the military director of Ecole polytechnique François Bouchet, and the Fields medalist Cédric Villani were also present.

• As a member of the scientific committee of the GFAIH (Global Forum on AI for Humanity), I. Manolescu had the opportunity to meet, in a dinner at the Elysée Palace, and exchange with the French President Emmanuel Macron, the Economy and Industry Minister Bruno Le Maire, the Research Minister Frédérique Vidal, and the Digital Affairs Minister Cedric O (https://twitter.com/ioanamanol/status/1189478849651904513).

Awards

• The demonstration “Spade: A Modular Framework for Analytical Exploration of RDF Graphs”[15] has obtained the Best Demonstration Award at the BDA conference 2019, where it has also been informally presented (https://twitter.com/cedarinrialix/status/1185203276142256128).