Bâtiment 5
Université Montpellier 2 – CC 05 018
Campus St Priest – 860 rue St Priest
34095 Montpellier cedex 5

@fmasseglia on Twitter
+33 467 418 646

Short Bio

I am a scientific researcher in computer science at Inria since 2002. I work in Montpellier, in the Zenith team of Inria on the analysis of very large scientific data. These data, derived from observations, experiments and simulation are indeed complex, often very large, and are at the heart of important issues to better understand the studied domains (agronomy, biology, medicine).

I have defended my Habilitation Thesis in 2009.

I did my PhD in computer science at Montpellier in co-supervision with the University of Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (graduated in 2001), in the area of ​​knowledge discovery from databases. Until 2010 I worked in Sophia Antipolis on the development and application of these techniques for knowledge discovery in areas related to usage (such as navigation on Web sites) and large amounts of data.

Main Interests

• Big Scientific Data analytics.
• Massively Distributed Algorithms for Data Mining.
• Time series (indexing and mining).
• Science Popularization.

Responsibilities

• Scientific vice-leader of the “Scientific Data” axis of Numev.
• Area-Chair of IEEE ICDM (2014 and 2015).
• Scientific vice-leader of interstices.
• Member of the advisory board of “Les petits débrouillards” in Languedoc-Roussillon.

Committees & Reviewing

Reviewer for the following journals: 

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Information Systems (IS), Information Sciences (INS), Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI), International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS), Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA).

Program Committee member of:

• ACM SAC (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• CBMS (2012)
• DATA (2014, 2015)
• Discovery Science (2009, 2013)
• DSAA (2014)
• EDBT (2014)
• EPIA (2009)
• IEEE ICDM (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• ICDM PhD forum (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• ICML (2010)
• ICTAI (2006)
• MCCSIS (2009)
• PAKDD (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• PKDD (2015)
• PIKM (2007, 2008, 2010)
• UDM (2010, 2012, 2013)

I also have been additional reviewer for SIGMOD and EDBT.

I am regularly PC member of the French major conferences on databases and knowledge discovery (BDA, EGC, Inforsid).

PhD juries

• Moreno Barbosa Andres Dario (Reviewer): December 10 2014, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.
• Yasin Amanullah (Reviewer): October 8 2013, Polytech’Nantes.
• Cassio Melo (Jury Chair): July 19 2013, Ecole Centrale Paris.
• Pierre Nicolas Mougel (Reviewer): September 14 2012, INSA Lyon.
• Chongsheng Zhang (Thesis director): October 21 2011, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.
• Geoffray Bonnin (Reviewer): November 23 2010, University of Nancy 2.
• Paola Salle (Reviewer): July 13 2010, University of Montpellier 2.
• Alice Marascu (Advisor): September 15 2009, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

Students & Supervising

Current PhD students

• Djamel Yagoubi (since 2014). Thesis director. “Massive distribution for indexing and mining time series”. Co-advised with Reza Akbarinia and Themis Palpanas.
• Mehdi Zitouni (since 2014). Thesis co-director. “Pattern mining in highly distributed environments”. Co-advised with Reza Akbarinia and Sadok Benh-Yahia (co-director).
• Saber Salah (since 2013). Thesis director. “Optimizing a Cloud for Data Mining Primitives”. Co-advised with Reza Akbarinia.

Former PhD students

• Chongsheng Zhang. Graduated in 2011. Thesis director. “Managing and Mining Data Streams with Evolving Tuples”.  After his thesis, Chongsheng has been Marie Curie/ERCIM Fellow in the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Chongsheng is full professor at Henan University, China, since April 2012. He is manager of the data mining group, and director of the Big Data Analytics team which has 20 faculty members.
• Alice Marascu. Graduated in 2009. Co-advised with Yves Lechevallier and Brigitte Trousse. Alice is now a researcher for IBM, Ireland.
• Doru Tanasa. Graduated in 2005. Co-advised with Brigitte Trousse. Doru is now research engineer & consultant at Vadis Consulting, Belgium.

Post-docs

• Rim Moussa, from 2014 to 2015. PIA “Datascale”.
• Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, in 2014 and 2015. On “Collaborative Filtering using multiple sources”. Part of the “BigDataNet” associate team with UCSB.
• Julien Diener, from 2013 to 2014. Numev project “RhizoscanHT”.
• Tristan Allard, from 2013 to 2014. EDF research contract “Privacy preserving analysis of time series”.
• Eniko Szekely, from 2011 to 2013. Numev project “VIPP”.
• Céline Fio from 2008 to 2009. Inria ARC “SéSur”.

Softwares

• Logmagnet: summarizing streaming logs on the fly.
• Chiaroscuro: privacy preserving analysis of massive sets of time-series.

Patent

• “Process for identifying rare events”. #EP13153512.2 (2013). Sandra Bringay, Renaud Cezar, Dino Ienco, André Mas, Florent Masseglia, Pascal Poncelet, Pierre Pudlo, Maguelonne Teisseire, Jean-Pierre Vendrell and Eniko Szekely.

Science popularization (médiation scientifique)

• I have coordinated a national network of colleagues for promoting code learning. This action has given the “KidEtCode” studios of Inria, and the involved colleagues have benefited from two training sessions on the subject.
• After some successful organizations of studios by colleagues in the network, we have written a series of interviews in where they give a feedback on “howto” set up a KidEtCode studio, find partners and provide relevant content.
• I have given a 3 days training to primary and high school teachers. This event, called “Graines de sciences” (Ecole de Physique des Houches) was funded and organized by “La main à  la pâte”, a French foundation dedicated to science popularization.
• I have participated to the following events in Montpellier, and therefore participated in the effort of relaunching science popularization activities in Montpellier:
  • I have co-organized and co-animated the Inria’s stand at “La fête de la science” (Montpellier), held by Genopolys (a science village).
  • I have organized and animated several “Kid&Code” studios in the greater metropolitan area of Montpellier, involving the network of media libraries and the network of extracurricular activities.
  • I have given session training to media libraries activity leaders. The goal is to accompany media libraries in the region of Montpellier and help them until they are autonomous in this activity.
• Scientific vice-leader, and contributor, of interstices.
• Member of the scientific committee for the edition of  “Datagramme”, the game from Inria on science popularization.
• Member of the management board of “Les petits débrouillards” in Languedoc-Roussillon.
• Scientific responsible for schools visits in the Lirmm Laboratory.