Ioana Manolescu is a research director at Inria and leads the CEDAR team, which specializes in large-scale complex data analysis. She is also president of BDA, the French national scientific association dedicated to data management. She is or has been a member of the PVLDB steering committee and the ACM SIGMOD executive committee, and has served as program chair, general chair, and editorial board member for major conferences and journals such as PVLDB, PACMOD, ICDE, CIKM, and others. She is a senior member of the ACM and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Contribution Award.
The author of more than 200 articles in international journals and conference proceedings, she has co-authored books on web and cloud data management. Her primary research interests focus on data science and artificial intelligence methods for processing complex data, such as large heterogeneous graphs of text and data.
Over the past decade, her research has addressed several issues raised by fact-checking and investigative journalism, a field in which she has successfully collaborated with journalists from Le Monde and Radio France.