Philippe Cudré-Mauroux

Philippe Cudre-Mauroux is the director of the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg and the CTO of Scigility. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, where he won both the Doctorate Award and the EPFL Press Mention in 2007. Before joining the University of Fribourg, he worked on information management infrastructures at IBM Watson Research (NY), Microsoft Research Asia, and MIT. He was Program Chair of the International Semantic Web Conference in 2012 and General Chair of the International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis in 2012 and 2013. He recently won the Verisign Internet Infrastructures Award, a Swiss National Center in Research award, as well as a Google Faculty Research Award.

Research Interests

Exascale Information Management; Big Data; Scientific Data; Linked Data.

Recent/Upcoming Events

• October 2020: CIKM in Galway [PC Chair]
• June 2020: ESWC in Heraklion [Track Chair]
• September 2019: SEMANTICS in Karlsruhe [PC Chair]
• September 2019: ECML PKDD in Würzburg [Area Chair]
• April 2017: WWW in Perth [Track Chair]
• August 2017: VLDB in Munich [Member of the review board of PVLDB Vol. 10]

Recent Appointments

• 2016: Full Professor, University of Fribourg–Switzerland
• 2015-2016: Visiting Researcher, Microsoft CISL–USA
• 2015: Visiting Professor, MIT–USA
• 2015: Forum des 100–Switzerland
• 2011: President of the GITI–Switzerland
• 2011: Board of Directors, Swiss-Engineering–Switzerland
• 2010: Swiss NSF Professor, University of Fribourg–Switzerland

Awards & Prizes

• 2019: Best Paper Award, AAMAS 2019.
• 2016: ERC Consolidator Grant, European Research Council.
• 2013: Google Faculty Research Award, USA.
• 2012: Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Award, Swiss National Center in Research MICS (link to the MICS event).
• 2012: Verisign Inc. Internet Infrastructures Award, USA. Press release here.
• 2011: Marie-Curie Career Integration Grant.
• 2011: Best Demo Award, ISWC, Germany.
• 2011: Outrageous Idea Award, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Germany.
• 2011: Amazon AWS Teaching Grant, USA.
• 2011: Amazon AWS Research Grant, USA.
• 2010: SNSF Professorship, Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland.
• 2010: Best Mentor Award, International Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai–China.
• 2007: EPFL Doctorate Award (best EPFL thesis out of 292 Ph.D. theses), EPFL–Switzerland.
• 2007: EPFL Press Mention (for outstanding publication), EPFL, Switzerland.
• 2001: Best Student (out of 30 European students), M.Sc. program in Multimedia Communications, Eurecom Institute & EPFL.

Publications

• Ines Arous, Ljiljana Dolamic, Jie Yang, Akansha Bhardwaj, Giuseppe Cuccu, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “MARTA: Leveraging Human Rationales for Explainable Text Classification.” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021). A Virtual Conference, 2021. Bibtex PDF Appendix Code
• Mourad Khayati, Ines Arous, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “ORBITS: Online Recovery of Missing Blocks in Multiple Time Series Streams.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 14, 2021. Bibtex PDF Code
• Ines Arous, Jie Yang, Mourad Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Peer Grading the Peer Reviews: A Dual-Role Approach for Lightening the Scholarly Paper Review Process.” In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2021). Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2021. Bibtex PDF
• Abdelouahab Khelifati, Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Adrian Hänni, Qian Liu, and Manfred Hauswirth. “VADETIS: An Explainable Evaluator for Anomaly Detection Techniques.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2021). Demo Track. Crete, Greece, 2021. Bibtex PDF
• Giuseppe Cuccu, Julian Togelius, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Playing Atari with Six Neurons (Extended Abstract).” In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference On Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-20, edited by Christian Bessiere, 4711–15. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2020. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Bingqing Qu, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Location-Centric Social Media Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities for Smart Cities.” IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Bingqing Qu, Jie Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “LBSN2Vec++: Heterogeneous Hypergraph Embedding for Location-Based Social Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Benjamin Fankhauser, Paolo Rosso, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Location Prediction over Sparse User Mobility Traces Using RNNs: Flashback in Hidden States!.” In Proceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020). Yokohama, Japan, 2020. Bibtex PDF Code
• Giuseppe Cuccu, Johan Jobin, Julien Clément, Akansha Bhardwaj, Carolin Reischauer, Harriet Thöny, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Hydra: Cancer Detection Leveraging Multiple Heads and Heterogeneous Datasets.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Laura Rettig, Regula Hänggli, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “The Best of Both Worlds: Context-Powered Word Embedding Combinations for Longitudinal Text Analysis.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Alberto Lerner, Jaewook Kwak, Sangjin Lee, Kibin Park, Yong Ho Song, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “It Takes Two: Instrumenting the Interaction between In-Memory Databases and Solid-State Drives.” In CIDR 2020, 10th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Akansha Bhardwaj, Jie Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “A Human-AI Loop Approach for Joint Keyword Discovery and Expectation Estimation in Micropost Event Detection.” In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’20). New York, USA, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, André Ryser, Sangjin Lee, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Networking and Storage: The Next Computing Elements in Exascale Systems?.” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin 43, no. 1 (March 2020): 60–71. Bibtex PDF
• Yasamin Eslahi, Akansha Bhardwaj, Paolo Rosso, Kurt Stockinger, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Annotating Web Tables through Knowledge Bases: A Context-Based Approach.” In 2020 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS). IEEE, 2020. Bibtex PDF
• Paolo Rosso, Dingqi Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Beyond Triplets: Hyper-Relational Knowledge Graph Embedding for Link Prediction.” In Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW 2020). Taipei, Taiwan, 2020. Bibtex PDF Code
• Mourad Khayati, Alberto Lerner, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Vol. 13, 2020. Bibtex PDF Code Award
• Ines Arous, Jie Yang, Mourad Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “OpenCrowd: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Finding Social Influencers via Open-Ended Answers Aggregation.” In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2020). Taipei, Taiwan, 2020. Bibtex Slides PDF Code Video
• Alisa Smirnova, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Relation Extraction Using Distant Supervision: A Survey.” ACM Comput. Surv. 51, no. 5 (2019): 106:1–106:35. Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Bingqing Qu, Jie Yang, and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux. “Revisiting User Mobility and Social Relationships in LBSNs: A Hypergraph Embedding Approach.” In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2019), 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Artem Lutov, M. Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Accuracy Evaluation of Overlapping and Multi-Resolution Clustering Algorithms on Large Datasets.” In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2019), 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Ines Arous, Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Ying Zhang, Martin Kersten, and Svetlin Stalinlov. “RecovDB: Accurate and Efficient Missing Blocks Recovery for Large Time Series.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019). Demo Track. Macau, China, 2019. Bibtex PDF Code Poster Tool
• Alberto Lerner, Rana Hussein, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “The Case For Network Accelerated Query Processing.” In CIDR 2019, 9th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Semantic Search.” In Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies., 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Giuseppe Cuccu, Julian Togelius, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Playing Atari with Six Neurons.” In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 998–1006. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Bingqing Qu, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Privacy-Preserving Social Media Data Publishing for Personalized Ranking-Based Recommendation.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 31, no. 3 (2019): 507–20. Bibtex PDF
• Akansha Bhardwaj, Albert Blarer, Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, Vincent Lenders, Boris Motik, Axel Tanner, and Alberto Tonon. “Event Detection on Microposts: a Comparison of Four Approaches.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering PP (October 2019): 1–1. Bibtex PDF
• Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “SciDB.” In Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies., 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Alisa Smirnova, Julien Audiffren, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Distant Supervision from Knowledge Graphs.” In Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies., 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Paolo Rosso, Dingqi Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Knowledge Graph Embeddings.” In Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies., 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Artem Lutov, Dingqi Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Bridging the Gap between Community and Node Representations: Graph Embedding via Community Detection.” In BigData, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Artem Lutov, M. Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “DAOC: Stable Clustering of Large Networks.” In BigData, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Paolo Rosso, Dingqi Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Revisiting Text and Knowledge Graph Joint Embeddings: The Amount of Shared Information Matters!.” In BigData, 2019. Bibtex PDF Code
• Abdelouahab Khelifati, M. Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “CORAD: Correlation-Aware Compression of Massive Time Series Using Sparse Dictionary Coding.” In BigData, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Laura Rettig, Julien Audiffren, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Fusing Vector Space Models for Domain-Specific Applications.” In IEEE 31st International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2019, 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, and Michael H. Böhlen. “Scalable Recovery of Missing Blocks in Time Series with High and Low Cross-Correlations.” In International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2019. Bibtex PDF Code
• Michael Luggen, Djellel Difallah, Cristina Sarasua, Gianluca Demartini, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs — The Case of Wikidata.” In International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2019. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Djellel Difallah, Alessandro Checco, Gianluca Demartini, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Deadline-Aware Fair Scheduling for Multi-Tenant Crowd-Powered Systems.” Trans. Soc. Comput. 2, no. 1 (February 2019): 3:1–3:29. Bibtex PDF
• Sebastian Arnold, Rudolf Schneider, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Felix A. Gers, and Alexander Löser. “SECTOR: A Neural Model for Coherent Topic Segmentation and Classification.” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) to appear (2019). Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Paolo Rosso, Bin Li, and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux. “NodeSketch: Highly-Efficient Graph Embeddings via Recursive Sketching.” In Proceedings of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019), 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Jie Yang, Alisa Smirnova, Dingqi Yang, Gianluca Demartini, Yuan Lu, and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux. “Scalpel-CD: Leveraging Crowdsourcing and Deep Probabilistic Modeling for Debugging Noisy Training Data.” In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2019), 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Natalia Ostapuk, Jie Yang, and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux. “ActiveLink: Deep Active Learning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs.” In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW 2019), 2019. Bibtex PDF
• Artem Lutov, Soheil Roshankish, M. Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “StaTIX - Statistical Type Inference on Linked Data.” In IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data 2018, Seattle, WA, USA, December 10-13, 2018, 2253–62, 2018. Bibtex PDF
• Efstratios Rappos, Stephan Robert, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “A Force-Directed Approach for Offline GPS Trajectory Map Matching.” In Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2018. Bibtex PDF
• Artem Lutov, Mourad Khayati, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Clubmark: A Parallel Isolation Framework for Benchmarking and Profiling Clustering Algorithms on NUMA Architectures.” In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Demo Track, Singapore, Singapore, November 17-20, 2018, 1481–86, 2018. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Rana Hussein, Dingqi Yang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Are Meta-Paths Necessary? Revisiting Heterogeneous Graph Embeddings.” In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’18), 437–46, 2018. Bibtex Slides PDF Code
• Dingqi Yang, Bin Li, Laura Rettig, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “D2HistoSketch: Discriminative and Dynamic Similarity-Preserving Sketching of Streaming Histograms.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2018. Bibtex PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Terence Heaney, Alberto Tonon, Leye Wang, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “CrimeTelescope: Crime Hotspot Prediction Based on Urban and Social Media Data Fusion.” World Wide Web 21, no. 5 (2018): 1323–47. Bibtex PDF
• Paolo Ceravolo, Antonia Azzini, Marco Angelini, Tiziana Catarci, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Ernesto Damiani, Alexandra Mazak, et al. “Big Data Semantics.” J. Data Semantics 7, no. 2 (2018): 65–85. Bibtex PDF
• Marcin Wylot, Manfred Hauswirth, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, and Sherif Sakr. “RDF Data Storage and Query Processing Schemes: A Survey.” ACM Comput. Surv. 51, no. 4 (2018): 84:1–84:36. Bibtex PDF
• Julia Proskurnia, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Carlos Castillo, Karl Aberer, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Efficient Document Filtering Using Vector Space Topic Expansion And Pattern-Mining: The Case of Event Detection in Microposts.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2017, Singapore, November 06 - 10, 2017, 457–66, 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Ruslan Mavlyutov, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Managing Big Interval Data with CINTIA the Checkpoint INTerval Array.” Transactions on Big Data (TBD), 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Julia Proskurnia, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Ryota Kobayashi, Carlos Castillo, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, and Karl Aberer. “Predicting the Success of Online Petitions Leveraging Multidimensional Time-Series.” In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2017). Perth, Australia, 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Ruslan Mavlyutov, Carlo Curino, Boris Asipov, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Dependency-Driven Analytics: A Compass for Uncharted Data Oceans.” In Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2017). Santa Cruz, USA, 2017. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Shaban Shabani, Maria Sokhn, Laura Rettig, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Lukas Beck, Claudiu Tanase, and Heiko Schuldt. “City-Stories: A Multimedia Hybrid Content and Entity Retrieval System for Historical Data.” In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational History (HistoInformatics 2017) Co-Located with the 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017), 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Roman Prokofyev, Djellel Difallah, Michael Luggen, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “SwissLink: High-Precision, Context-Free Entity Linking Exploiting Unambiguous Labels.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Semantic Systems (SEMANTICS2017). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2017. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Dingqi Yang, Bin Li, Laura Rettig, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “HistoSketch: Fast Similarity-Preserving Sketching of Streaming Histograms with Concept Drift.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’17). New Orleans, USA, 2017. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Giuseppe Cuccu, Somayeh Danafar, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Martin Gassner, Stefano Bernero, and Krzysztof Kryszczuk. “A Data-Driven Approach to Predict NOx-Emissions of Gas Turbines.” In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2017, Boston, MA, USA, December 11-14, 2017, 1283–88, 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Alberto Tonon, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Albert Blarer, Vincent Lenders, and Boris Motik. “ArmaTweet: Detecting Events by Semantic Tweet Analysis.” In Proceedings of the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2017. Bibtex PDF
• Alberto Tonon, Victor Felder, Djellel Eddine Difallah, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “VoldemortKG: Mapping Schema.org and Web Entities to Linked Open Data.” In ISWC. Springer International Publishing, 2016. Bibtex Slides PDF
• Julia Proskurnia, Ruslan Mavlyutov, Roman Prokofyev, Karl Aberer, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux. “Analyzing Large-Scale Public Campaigns on Twitter.” In International Conference on Social Informatics, 225–43. Springer, 2016. Bibtex