Sihem Amer-Yahia
CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes
CNRS Research Director.
Deputy Director of Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble.
Recipient of the 2024 IEEE TCDE Impact Award, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the VLDB Women in Database Research Award.
Recipient of the CNRS Silver Medal in 2020. Check out this article in French.
Head of the SLIDE team.
Deputy Director of LIG [2021-2026]
Short bio
Ph.D. (INRIA) 1999; Master (Paris Dauphine) 1995; Eng. (INI) 1994.
Contact information
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG)
IMAG, 150 Place du Torrent, Bureau 309
38401 Saint-Martin d’Hères – France
Email: Sihem.Amer-Yahia@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Research Interests
Exploratory Data Analysis, Conversation Pathways with LLMs, Fairness in Future of Work. Check out this ACM SIGMOD Blog post.
I spent 7 years at at&t labs, 5 years Yahoo! Research and 2 years at QCRI, then I joined CNRS as research director.
I am a partner in the upcoming DataGEMS, an EU H2024-INFRA project on developing Dataset Discovery Systems, starting in 2025.
I am a partner in the upcoming ARMADA, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network in Europe, starting in 2025.
I was a partner in INODE, an EU H2020 project on Data Exploration.
I held a chair on Going Beyond Recommendations and involved in several chairs in MIAI, our Multidisciplinary Institute in AI.
I was the Data Science lead for CDP LIFE.
I was the Scientific Director of DATALYSE and of CNRS MASTODONS ELM.
I served as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion coordinator: DEI@DB initiative , Member of the 2022 neurIPS Ethics Review board, Member of the ACM DEI Shepherd Program, Member of the DEI workforce of our AI institute (MIAI DEI).
Professional Service
– Vice president of the VLDB Endowment [2022-2026]
– Coordinator of the DEI@DB initiative for the data management research community [2020-2023]
– Member of the Steering Committee of the Swiss National Fund NRP since 2019.
– Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Informatics [2018-2026]
– Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the University of Helsinki [2018-2024]
– Member of the LIG Bureau since 2016
– Chair of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award committee [2016-2019]
– Member of the organizing team of LIG keynotes [2015-2018]
– Member of IEEE, ACM (Distinguished Member)
– Member of the Board of Trustees of the VLDB Endowment [2010-2015]
– Member of the SIGMOD Executive Committee [2010-2012]
– Member of the comité d’orientation of Minalogic [2014-2015]
Editorial Boards
– Editor In Chief for Europe and Africa of the VLDB Journal [2014-2020]
– Associate Editor of Transactions in Data Science (TDS) [2018-2019]
– Associate Editor of the VLDB Journal: 2010-2014
– Associate Editor of ACM TODS: 2011-2015
– Area Editor of the Information Systems Journal [2010-2019]
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Conference Chairing
– Program Chair: SIGMOD 2023, ICDE 2021
– Diversity Chair: VLDB 2021 and 2022
– Associate Editor: SIGMOD 2021
– Demonstrations: VLDB 2024, EDBT 2021, SIGMOD 2020
– Workshops: ICDE 2025, HILDA 2020, WWW 2019, PVLDB 2016
– General Chair: DASFAA 2024, ACM WomENcourage 2019
– Tutorials: EDBT/ICDT 2025/2026, ICDE 2019, WWW 2018
– Program Committee: VLDB 2018
– Area chair: SIGMOD 2016
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Press (mostly in French)
– Algorithmes : l’injustice artificielle ? Jan 10, 2022
– D’où vient le risque ? Des données et des algorithmes Fev 05, 2020
– Le testing algorithmique Dec 10, 2019
– Le testing algorithmique Dec 2, 2019
– Plateformes sur PandHeMic Oct 31, 2019
– SIGMOD blog Post Sep 23, 2019
– CNRS: La lettre de L’InSHS on Crowdsourcing September 2014
– SIGMOD blog Post August 27, 2014
– GDG Algiers on March 8, 2014
– CNRS Journal, Sep/Oct 2012
– Institut Francais du Luxembourg, Dec 2012
– The Wall Street Journal on using Flickr to follow tourists, July 2010
