Organization Committee

Raphaël is an associate professor in the Data Science Department of EURECOM. He is also the representative of Institut Mines Telecom at the Advisory Committee of the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) where he participated in several standardization groups. He is an expert for the European Commission (FP7, H2020), for the French National Funding Agency (ANR, BPI) as well as for various National Agencies in Europe in the areas of AI, Big Data and Digital Transformation.

His research interests include: Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Graphs, Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Multimodal Information Extraction, Recommender Systems. He has developed prototypes for various domains such as creative industries, cultural heritage, medias, tourism, automotive, finance and insurance, etc.

He has supervised 14 PhD students and he has published more than 250 peer-reviewers articles in journals, conferences and workshops.

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Deepak Agarwal is currently a senior engineering leader at Pinterest where he leads the engineering teams responsible for developing all organic user experiences on the platform including recommendations, search and shopping.

Prior to Pinterest, Deepak was VP engineering and Head of Artificial Intelligence at LinkedIn from 2012-2020. He began his industrial research career with AT&T Labs from 2001-2006 and subsequently was a senior researcher at Yahoo! Research from 2006-2012.

He has published extensively in top-tier conferences/journals in CS, ML and Statistics and has written a textbook on Recommender Systems. He is Fellow of the American Statistical Association, serves as member of Executive Committee for SIGKDD and regularly serves on program committees of major CS and ML conferences.

Nathalie Hernandez is a Professor at the Toulouse Jean Jaurès University and a member of IRIT Laboratory, CNRS UMR5505. Her research interests concern Knowledge Engineering and the Semantic Web and are linked to the development of the Web and societal issues. They address the issues related to the integration of connected-objects as Web resources, knowledge graphs and distributed reasoning in the Internet of Things and knowledge graphs for digital humanities.

Senjuti Basu Roy is the Panasonic Chair in Sustainability and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her broader research interests lie in the area of large scale data management with the focus on designing principled algorithms for “human-in-the-loop” systems. She has served as the Mentorship co-chair of SIGMOD 2018, PhD workshop co-chair of VLDB 2018, co-chair of SEADATA Workshop 2021 (colocated with VLDB 2021), and HMData Workshops 2017-2021 (colocated with IEEE BigData conference).

She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and one of the 100 invited early career engineers to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. She has published more than 65 peer reviewed conference and journal papers and delivered several tutorials in prestigious conferences.

Elena Demidova is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is the leader of the Data Science and Intelligent Systems Group (DSIS). In the past, she worked as Research Group Leader at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 2013. Elena’s main research interests are in Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, the Web, and Semantic Web.

Anna Lisa Gentile is a researcher in the Intelligence Augmentation group at IBM Research Almaden, USA. Her Research is principally focused on studying methods and techniques for semantic annotating unstructured and semi-structured content. Her main Research Areas are Information Extraction (IE), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Semantic Web. From December 2015 to February 2017 she was a post-doctoral research scientist at the University of Mannheim. From May 2010 to November 2015 she was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Sheffield. She obtained my doctoral degree with a thesis on Named Entity Disambiguation at the University of Bari, Italy in 2010.

Dr. Petra Selmer is the Team Lead of the Query Languages Standards and Research group at Neo4j, undertaking research into graph query languages and language standards. Under the auspices of ISO/IEC, Petra is currently part of the international standardization efforts to design a stand-alone graph query language, GQL (ISO/IEC 39075), as well as defining property graph query extensions for the next version of SQL (ISO/IEC 9075-16). She also undertakes research into query languages and graph-structured data models, and collaborates with academic researchers to explore new facets of graph querying capabilities.

She is involved with the openCypher project at www.opencypher.org, and was part of the team designing and optimizing Neo4j’s Cypher query engine. For many years, she worked as a consultant and developer in a variety of different domains and roles and has a PhD in Computer Science from Birkbeck, University of London, where she researched flexible querying of graph-structured data.

Dominique Hazael-Massieux is W3C Developer Relationships Lead, W3C Community Development Lead (in charge of managing the Community Groups program), champion for the Telecommunication Industry in W3C, part of the W3C Project Management team, W3C Strategy Specialist on Virtual and Augmented Reality, and serves as staff contact in the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, the Web and Machine Learning Web Working Group, and the Web & Networks Interest Group. He also develops tools and applications as needed in his various roles.

He joined initially W3C’s Communication and Systems Team as a member of the Webmaster Team in October 2000; after having joined then lead the QA Activity until September 2005, Dom took part to the Mobile Web Initiative as Staff Contact for the Best Practices Working Group and later as co-Chair of the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group. Dominique also served as Staff Contact for the Device and sensors Working Group.

Dominique holds an engineering degree from the “Grande Ecole” École Centrale Paris.

Ryen White is a Partner Research Director at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Language, Learning, and Privacy research area. Ryen was program chair of The Web Conference 2019 and is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on the Web.

In 2022, for the first time, TheWebConf and TWEB are partnering to give authors of recent TWEB articles an opportunity to present their work at the conference.

Laurent is the Chief Information and Digital Officer of Université de Lyon.He is an engineer in computing science and owns a master’s degree in industrial economics. He has a strong background in ICT for education and network engineer activities.

From 2007 to 2017, he steered the Université Numérique in the Rhone-Alpes Region, accompanying many innovative projects.

Since 2010, he is a board member of the CSIESR (the French largest Higher Ed IT professional association) in charge of international affairs.

After leading the organization of both WWW2012 and The Web Conference 2018 in Lyon, he joined the IW3C2 (the conference steering committee) in 2017. He is now in charge of coordination between the different organization teams and GDPR issues.

Pierre-Antoine is an associate professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, member of the TWEAK research group at LIRIS Lab. Currently in a sabbatical at ERCIM, he is also a W3C fellow.

He has been representing Université de Lyon in various W3C working groups (Media annotation, RDF, LDP). His research interests include interoperable data and knowledge representation on the Web, and the design of intelligent interactive systems. He is coordinating the teaching of Web technologies in the Computer Science department of IUT Lyon 1. He is an author or co-author of 1 book chapter, 11 journal papers, 67 conference papers, and member of program committees in major Web and Semantic Web conferences (WWW, ISWC, ESWC).

He was General Co-Chair of The Web Conference 2018.

After several years of research in computer graphics, parallel programming, or multimedia development, Ivan joined the staff of W3C in 2001. Apart from some management jobs within the organization, he has been active in the areas of the Semantic Web, Digital Publishing, and, recently, in Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials. Beyond his research activities, he was co-editor of around 20 International Standards, mostly at the W3C.

He is a former (and founding) Board Member of the Force11 organization, and was part of the Executive Committee and former Vice-chair of the Eurographics Association. He has been member of IW3C2 since 2000, was General Co-chair of the WWW9 conference in Amsterdam in 2000, and has played an active role in the organization of WWW2003, WWW2008, WWW2012, and the Web Conference 2018.

Lionel is an associate professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, and member of the TWEAK research group at LIRIS Lab CNRS 5205.

He is a representative of Université de Lyon in the Web of Things W3C community group. He is mainly interested in embedding semantic technologies in everyday objects using web standards, as well as in mashups for informational and physical web applications. As he also teaches advanced Web technologies (he is coordinating the master degree web courses at the Computer Science department of FST Lyon 1), he is as well interested in exploiting these technologies to develop efficient client-side reasoning solutions. He is an author or co-author of 7 journal papers, 34 conference and workshop papers.

He was General Co-Chair of The Web Conference 2018.

Sébastien is Advertising & Content Manager at Groupe SEB.

He was the leader of the conference communication for The Web Conference 2018.

He participates in this committee as a counselor in advertising and communication domains.