Aix-Marseille University

Collaborations

  • Collaboration with INSERM U522 and, in particular, with Fouzia Moussouni (Associate Prof., Univ. of Rennes 1) on the acquisition, cleaning, and integration of semi-structured biomedical data with data quality monitoring.
  • Collaboration with AT&T Labs Research and, in particular, with Divesh Srivastava and Xin Luna Dong on data source dependence detection and truth discovery and with Tamraparni Dasu on data quality exploration and quantitative cleaning.
  • Collaboration with EDF R&D on evaluating the quality of Customer Relationship Management Databases within the ARA QUADRIS project.

Invitations and Seminars

  • Invitation to give a talk at éEGC Winter School on Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining entitled "Evaluation of the quality of data and knowledge in data mining", February 3, 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia.
  • Invitation by the Indiana Center for Database Systems (ICDS) at Purdue University (Lafayette, IN, USA) for a talk entitled: "Data Quality Mining: New Directions", December 3, 2009.
  • Invitation by the database research group of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT, Newark, NJ, USA) for a talk entitled: "Exploring and Managing Data Quality", November 23, 2009.
  • Invitation by the database research group of the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn, Philadelphia, PA, USA) for a talk entitled: "Exploring and Managing Data Quality", November 2, 2009.
  • Invitation by the database research group of Berkeley University (Berkeley, CA, USA) for a talk entitled: "Exploring and Managing Data Quality", January 23, 2009.
  • Invitation by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA, USA for a talk entitled: "Beyond Data Preparation: New Perspectives for Managing and Mining Data Quality", January 22, 2009.
  • Invitation to the panel of the International Conference on Information Quality (ICIQ’08) au Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T., Boston, MA, USA), November 16, 2008.
  • Invitation by the Center of Computational Learning Systems (CCLS) of Columbia University (New York, NY, USA) for a talk entitled: "Managing and Exploring Data Quality", October 22, 2008.
  • Invitation (two weeks in July 2006) by IStat, the Italian Institute of Statistics and the University La Sapienza (Roma, Italy) for a joint research exchange programme funded by C.N.R.S. and C.N.R., the French and Italian Research institutes respectively.
  • Invitation (one week in October 2005) by Divesh Srivastava at AT&T Labs Research (Florham Park, NJ, USA) for a talk entitled "Quality-Aware Data Management, Querying and Mining".
  • Invitation (one week in October 2005) by UNESCO, in Baku (Azerbaijan) for giving a training session at the Baku Scientific Training Centre and an invited talk entitled "Metadata for Efficient Exploitation of Very Large Multimedia Databases", during the Regional Workshop on Advanced Digital Technology-Assisted Cultural Artwork Restoration and Archiving within the framework of the Digital Silk Road project of UNESCO.

Former Contracts and Projects

Internationally

  • Collaboration with NII (Japan) for managing geo- and multimedia for the Digital Silk Road Project funded by UNESCO (from 2002 to 2003) jointly funded by C.N.R.S. and JSPS.

  • Collaboration with University La Sapienza and IStat, the Italian Institute of Statistics in Roma for a joint research exchange project on data preparation and cleaning funded by C.N.R.S. and C.N.R. (from 2006 to 2007).

  • In charge of the scientific achievements of INRIA Rennes (one of the 30 partners of the consortium) for the European Integrated Project ENTHRONE (End-to-end QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals - Phase 1 - FP6-2002-IST-2.3.1.8) from December 2003 to March 2006, I had to coordinate the efforts of more than 15 partners on three important tasks of the project related to multimedia metadata management.

  • Collaborations with the Database and Statistics research teams of AT&T Labs Research (New Jersey, USA) in the framework of Marie Curie mobility Fellowship.

Nationally

  • PI (from December 2005 to June 2007) of the research project (Action de Recherche Amont - ARA - 2005-2008) entitled QUADRIS, selected and funded by the French Agency for Research (ANR) . The main objective of this project was to provide theoretical solutions for monitoring data quality in multi-source Information Systems with experimental validation on the data provided by our industrial partners. The partners of this project were: University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (PRISM), CNAM (CEDRIC), University Aix-Marseille 2 (LSIS), Institut Curie, and EDF R&D.

Locally, in Brittany

  • Collaboration with INSERM U522 (the French Medical Research Institute) for managing and analyzing very large biomedical data sets related to liver diseases and pathologies (Programme Inter-EPST in Bioinformatics) in 2002.

  • Collaborations with French companies in the county of Rennes, France (GenieLog) for the exploratory analysis of very large telecom and mobility data streams, where data quality problems are numerous and critical in 2006.

  • Collaboration with Écoles Militaires de Coëtquidan (the main military school in France for training officers) from 2003 to 2008.

  • Contract with SEMA Group and DGA (General Direction of the French Army), Etablissement des Constructions Navales of the French Navy (DGA/ECN/CTSN) (1997-1998)

  • Contract for research collaboration with Écoles Militaires de Coëtquidan, the French Army Military Schools of Coëtquidan (France) and joint supervision of the Ph.D. thesis of LCL Jean-André Benvenuti (2003-2008) with Éric Jacopin (Associate Prof., HDR, Écoles Militaires de Saint-Cyr, Coëtquidan)

  • Contract with GenieLog (2006), Quality of Stream Data

  • QUADRIS: Quality of Multi-source Data and Information Systems ANR-MMSA-05 ARA Masse de données, French Research Grant founded by ANR (2006-2009)

  • Participation to Phase 1 of the Integrated European Project of the Sixth European Framework Program: ENTHRONE (End-to-end QoS through Integrated Management of Content, Networks and Terminals) - FP6-2002-IST-2.3.1.8, Leadership of the tasks: WP4-task 4.4. "Content Creation authoring tool TVM processor" and WP2- task 2.3. "Metadata definition and specification", (December2003 - March 2006)

Synergistic Activities

Organization
  • Laure Berti-Équille has co-organized several workshops dedicated to data and information quality such as IQIS 2005 workshop (Information Quality in Information Systems) and QDB 2009 workshop (Quality in Databases) in conjunction with the two of the top-3 ranked conferences ACM SIGMOD 2005 and VLDB 2009 respectively.
  • In France, she has initiated and co-organized the first workshop editions dedicated to Data and Knowledge Quality (DKQ) in 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2011 in conjunction with the main French conference on Knowledge Engineering and Data mining (EGC).
  • In 2009, Laure Berti-Équille along with 6 other French industrial partners has created ExQi, Excellence Quality Information, the first non-profit organization dedicated to data quality and data governance for French companies. ExQI organized a 3-days conference, DEP - Data Excellence Paris in 2010 and 2011
Editorial Activities Associative Activities
  • Member of the board of the group Data Mining and Machine Learning of the French Statistical Association, Société Française de Statistiques
  • ACM Member since 2005
  • Member of the board of ExQi (2009-2011)