This week, our team had the pleasure of attending Ghufran’s PhD defense on his thesis, “Scalable Analytics on Multi-Streams Dynamic Graphs.”
Those who know Ghufran also know he’s not one to draw attention to himself. But the clarity and depth of his defense spoke volumes. It was a …
As part of the seminars of the DAML pole of LIX, CEDAR has the pleasure of hosting Prof. George Fletcher from Eindhoven University of Technology. We invite you to join us for the talk of Prof. Fletcher, titled: “On the (im)possibilities of generative AI in education”.
The talk will take …
The paper “Graph Transformers for Query Plan Representation: Potentials and Challenges” by Chenghao Lyu, Guillaume Lachaud, Gabriel Lozano, and Yanlei Diao has been accepted for publication at the VLDB 2025 conference (to be presented at VLDB 2026).
The articles
“Efficient and Scalable Search for Statistics” by Antoine Gauquier, Ioana Manolescu and Pierre Sennelart
“RDF Query Answering in the Presence of Access Restrictions” by Maxime Buron, Hritika Kathuria, Ioana Manolescu and George Siachamis
and the demonstration:
“NiceT: Named Entity Cleaning and Enhancement with Human-in-the-loop” by Garima Gaur, Ioana …
The paper “How Persuasive Are LLMs in the Wild? Assessing Personalized Ads in Real-World Delivery” by Asmaa El fraihi, Nardjes Amieur, Beatrice Roussillon and Oana Goga, has been accepted at the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2026).
The paper “A Comparative Study of News Exposure and Consumption On and Off Facebook” by Nardjes Amieur, Salim Chouaki, Oana Goga and Beatrice Roussillon, has been accepted at the 28th ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW).
We’re pleased to announce that Kyle Beadle will be visiting our team on June 30. He will give a seminar at 11:00 AM in the Henri Poincaré room (ground floor).
A Privacy Framework for Security Research Using Social Media Data
The team is once again celebrating a major achievement by one of our own—Kun Zhang has successfully defended his PhD!
Kun’s thesis, “Contributions to Evaluating and Improving the Faithfulness for Text Generation,” is a remarkable achievement in a field that is both technically demanding and rapidly evolving. His research stands …
For a new seminar of the DAML pole of LIX, we will be happy to hear Claire Gardent, senior researcher at CNRS, on “Text and Knowledge Graphs: Similarity and Generation”.
The presentation will be held on Tuesday, April 29 at 9AM. You can either attend in person, in room Henri …
On Monday, April 28th, at 15:00, CEDAR will host Prof. Simon Razniewski from TU Dresden.
We invite you to join us for the talk of Prof. Razniewski, titled:
“GPTKB: Comprehensively Materializing Factual LLM Knowledge”
The talk will take place at the Henri Poincaré room (RDC, Alan Turing building).
