Keynote speakers

Fabien Gandon  |  Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France

Fabien’s PhD in 2002 pioneered the joint use of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) and semantic Web to manage a variety of data sources and users above a Web architecture. Then, as a research project leader at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), he proposed an AI method to enforce privacy preferences in querying and reasoning about personal data. In 2004, recruited as a researcher at Inria, he started to study models and algorithms to integrate social media and knowledge based AI systems on the Web and support humans in the loop. In 2012 he became the representative of Inria at W3C and founded Wimmics, a joint research team on bridging social and formal semantics on the Web with AI methods. In 2014, Fabien became a research director (DR). In 2017 He established and became the director of the joint research laboratory QWANT-Inria and he also became responsible for the research convention between the Ministry of Culture and Inria. In 2018 Fabien became Vice Head of Science of Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée. ​

Sandra González-Bailón  |  University of Pennsylvania, USA

Sandra González-Bailón is an Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and affiliated faculty at the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences. Prior to joining Penn, she was a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, where she is now a Research Associate. Her research lies at the intersection of network science, data mining, computational tools, and political communication. She is the author of the book Decoding the Social World (MIT Press, 2017) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication (OUP, 2018).