Meghyn Bienvenu


Academic Positions

2023 - ... Senior CNRS researcher (DR), temporarily posted to the CNRS Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI), Tokyo.
  Visiting researcher at Inoue Lab at National Institute for Informatics (NII)
2021 - 2023 Senior CNRS researcher (DR) at LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux.
  Member of the RATIO team
2018-2021 Junior CNRS researcher (CR) at LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux.
2015-2018 Junior CNRS researcher (CR) at LIRMM, Université de Montpellier.
  Member of the GraphIK team (Knowledge representation and reasoning)
2010-2015 Junior CNRS researcher (CR) at LRI, Université Paris Sud.
  Member of the LaHDAK team (Large-scale heterogeneous data and knowledge)
2009-2010 Postdoctoral researcher at Universität Bremen.
  Member of the TDKI team (Theory of artificial intelligence)

Education

2019 Habilitation (HDR) in Computer Science
  Received from: Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
  Title of thesis: Ontology-Mediated Query Answering: Leveraging Knowledge to Get More From Data
  Defense date: December 9th, 2019
2006-2009 PhD in Computer Science
  Received from: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  Title of thesis: Consequence Finding in Modal Logic
  Advisors: Andreas Herzig, Jérôme Lang, Jérôme Mengin
  Defense date: May 7th, 2009
2005-2006 Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence
  Received from: Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  Ranked 1st (with ''mention très bien'')
2000-2004 Honour's Bachelor of Science
  Specializations: Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
  Received from: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  Graduated with high distinction

Selected Awards and Honours

ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, 2023
CNRS Bronze Medal (Section 6: computer science), 2016
Early Career Spotlight (invited talk at IJCAI), 2016
Thesis Prize in Artificial Intelligence (awarded by AFIA, the French association for AI), 2009

Current & Recent Professional Activities

Associate editor for Articial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
Editorial board member for ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
Editorial board member for Perspectives in Logic book series
Awards committee member (2022-2024) for KR Inc.
Area chair for the 21st International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2024)
Area chair for the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)
PC member for the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024)
PC member for the 37th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2024)
PC member for the 13th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FOIKS 2024)
Diversity & Inclusion co-chair for the 20th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2023)
PC member for the 20th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2023)
Senior PC member for the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023)
PC member for the 42nd ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2023)
PC member for the 36th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2023)
Senior PC member for the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022)
PC member for the 19th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2022)
PC member for the 12th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FOIKS 2022)
PC member for the 35th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2022)
PC co-chair for the 18th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2021)
Area chair for the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
PC member for the 36th Annual Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2021)
PC member for the 34th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2021)
Special session co-chair for the 18th International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (KR 2020)
PC Member of the 7th Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata (Highlights 2020)
Senior PC Member of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020)
Tutorial co-chair of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
PC Member of the 11th International Symposium on the Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems (FOIKS 2020)
PC member for the 33rd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2020)
Senior PC Member of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020)

Research Grants

2020-2026 Principal investigator, INTENDED AI Chair (ANR & U Bordeaux)
2019-2024 Participant and task leader, CQFD project (ANR)
2016-2019 Participant, GOASQ project (ANR-DFG)
2013-2017 Principal investigator, PAGODA project (ANR JCJC)
2012 Attractivité starting grant (Université Paris-Sud)