He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Univ. of Bourgogne (UB), LE2I CNRS, France (2009), awarded with Highest Honors. He has completed three post-docs: in the Univ. of Milan, Italy (Fall 2009), in the Univ. of Shizuoka, Japan (Spring 2010), and in ICMC, Univ. of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil (2010-2011). He was awarded various prestigious fellowships: French Ministry of Education (France), Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), JSPS (Japan), FAPESP (Brazil), and AUF (France). His research covers XML; MM data semantics, data-mining, and information retrieval. He is a member of IEEE and ACM SIGAPP, and an organizing member of various international conferences such as IEEE ICWS, AIAI, SITIS, ACM MEDES, etc. He has more than 30 publications in various prestigious journals and conferences: IEEE TSC, WWW J., Elsevier JWS, Elsevier Info. Sciences, IJWSR, IEEE ICWS, EDBT, ER, WISE, ADBIS, etc.