Riccardo Tommasini
A passionately rational man.

I am a Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at the Institute National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) one of France’s leading engineering schools situated in Lyon
In particular, I am member of the DB Team at LIRIS, lead by Prof. Angela Bonifati.
My research interests span across Stream Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Query and Programming Languages.
I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, obtained from the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano, under the supervision of Prof. Emanuele Della Valle.
My Ph.D. dissertation, titled “Velocity on the Web”, investigated the velocity aspects that concern the Web environment and will be soon published as a book by Springer.
Prior to joining INSA I was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia. I was member of Data System Group, founded by Prof. Sheri Sakr (R.I.P.). From April 2020 until February 2021, I lead the group ad-interim when Prof. Ahmed Award suceeded Prof. Sakr. There I still supervise Mohamed Ragab, a PhD student working on Big Graph Processing.
During my career I also developed several industrial collaborations both for research and consulting.
I negotiated and managed two research projects with the Nordic Institute for Interoperability of Software (NIIS). The projects (one of which is still ongoing) focuses on X- ROAD, the backbone of Estonia and Finland’s e-government infrastructure.
I have an ongoing collaborations with Neo4j, InfluxData, and Confluent Inc.
My office is located in Bâtiment Nautibus, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
news
Jul 22, 2022 | I am thrilled to announce that my JCJC proposal POLYFLOW was accepted by the Agencie National de Research (ANR) in France |
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Apr 15, 2022 | The book Streaming Linked Data that I co-authored with Pieter Bonte and Emanuele Della Valle will be out in Spring 2023 |
Feb 3, 2020 | PhinisheD |
Jul 15, 2017 | Docker Campus Ambassador |
selected publications
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CACMThe future is big graphs: a community view on graph processing systemsCommun. ACM 2021
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ESWCRSP4J: An API for RDF Stream ProcessingIn The Semantic Web - 18th International Conference, ESWC 2021, Virtual Event, June 6-10, 2021, Proceedings 2021
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Declarative Languages for Big Streaming DataIn Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30 - April 02, 2020 2020
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Stream Reasoning Agents: Blue Sky Ideas TrackIn Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, AAMAS ’19, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 13-17, 2019 2019
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CAISED2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event IntervalsIn Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 31st International Conference, CAiSE 2019, Rome, Italy, June 3-7, 2019, Proceedings 2019
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VoCaLS: Vocabulary and Catalog of Linked StreamsIn The Semantic Web - ISWC 2018 - 17th International Semantic Web Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, October 8-12, 2018, Proceedings, Part II 2018
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Defining the execution semantics of stream processing enginesJ. Big Data 2017