Supervision

PhD students

• Krysto Dagues de la Hellerie, Université Côte d’Azur / Berger-Levrault (CIFRE), Starting in 2026
  Representing intervention scenarios and decisions using knowledge graphs: application to industrial maintenance
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, and Franck Michel
• Hanna Abi Akl, Université Côte d’Azur / DSTI (CIFRE), Starting in December 2025
  Neuro-symbolic and knowledge-based approaches to develop reasoning abilities in Large Language Models
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon and Catherine Faron
• Génesis Montenegro, Université Côte d’Azur / Berger-Levrault (CIFRE), October 2025 - October 2028
  From raw corpus to lexical-semantic graph: a methodological framework for industrial, agile and high-performance GraphRAG
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron, and Franck Michel
• Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue, Université Côte d’Azur / Universidade de Lisboa, October 2025 - October 2028
  Abstraction and analogical reasoning to improve knowledge representation in low-resource languages
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon and Miguel Couceiro
• Guillaume Méroué, Université Côte d’Azur, October 2024 - October 2027
  Decentralized coordination of intelligent processes to improve the quality of a collection of knowledge graphs
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon
• Nicolas Robert, Université Côte d’Azur, October 2024 - October 2027
  Knowledge graph embedding models: symbolic knowledge injection and discovery
  Co-supervised with Catherine Faron
• Lucas Jarnac, Orange / Université de Lorraine (CIFRE), March 2023 - March 2026
  Reconciliation of uncertain knowledge from heterogeneous sources for knowledge graph refinement
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro
  I supervised Lucas Jarnac until the end of my contract with Orange (August 2023)
• Nicolas Hubert, Université de Lorraine, September 2021 - September 2024
  From semantic-aware to semantic-driven knowledge graph embedding models for link prediction
  Even though I am not his supervisor, I collaborate with Nicolas and his supervisors (Armelle Brun and Davy Monticolo) on his thesis.

Interns and student projects

• Yaël Burdese, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Research project, 6 months, October 2025 - March 2026
  Comprehensively comparing GraphRAG approaches: from constructed graphs to generated results
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon and Catherine Faron
• Krysto Dagues de la Hellerie, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Internship, 6 months, March 2025 - August 2025
  Semantic Web Retrieval Augmented Generation
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon, in collaboration with the Forgeron3 company
• Adrien Chassaing-Monjou, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Internship, 5 months, April 2024 - August 2024
  Analogical Reasoning for Knowledge Graph Refinement
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro
• Guillaume Méroué, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Internship, 4 months, March 2024 - July 2024
  Analogical Reasoning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
  Co-supervised with Fabien Gandon
• Lynda Attouche, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Research project, 6 months, October 2023 - March 2024
  Improving automatic text classification by leveraging class hierarchies
  Co-supervised with Catherine Faron and Molka Dhouib
• Guillaume Méroué, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Research project, 6 months, October 2023 - March 2024
  Analogical Reasoning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro
• Mohammad Al Takach, Abbas Awarkeh, Bassem Jaber, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Research project, 8 months, October 2023 - June 2024
  Analogical Reasoning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro
• Adrien Chassaing-Monjou, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Internship, 3 months, June 2023 - August 2023
  Exploring analogical proportions to align Knowledge Graphs
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro and Esteban Marquer
• Omar Abedelkader, Juba Ait-Abdelmalek, Ekaterina Kozachenko, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Research project, 8 months, October 2022 - June 2023
  Exploring analogies for automatic semantic annotation taking into account context
  Co-supervised with Stergos Afantenos, Miguel Couceiro, and Esteban Marquer
• Adrien Chassaing-Monjou, Chadi Hani, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Research project, 8 months, October 2022 - June 2023
  Exploring analogical proportions between and within Knowledge Graphs
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro and Esteban Marquer
• Li-Fan Zhao, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Research project, 5 months, September 2022 - February 2023
  Knowledge extraction from tabular data in Electronic Health Records
  Co-supervised with Adrien Coulet and Bastien Rance
• Lucas Jarnac, M.Sc. Year 2 (Bac+5), Internship, 6 months, March 2022 - September 2023
  Creation of an Enterprise Knowledge Graph: bootstrapping and knowledge reconciliation
• Melvin Moreau, B.Eng. Year 2 (Bac+2), Internship, 2 months, June 2019 - August 2019
  Updating PGxLOD with the newest versions of the integrated Linked Open Data sets
  Co-supervised with Amedeo Napoli
• Benoît Frapiccini, Gabi Portelli, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Research Project, 5 months, January 2018 - May 2018
  Extracting drug side effects from clinical annotations of PharmGKB to refine PGxLOD
  Co-supervised with Adrien Coulet
• Graziella Husson, M.Sc. Year 1 (Bac+4), Internship, 3 months, June 2017 - August 2017
  Refining PGxLOD (e.g., integrating some additional Linked Open Data sets, transforming PharmGKB data into RDF)
  Co-supervised with Adrien Coulet

Engineers

• Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue, AT2TA ANR project, From November 2024
  Development of the KGPrune web application
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro
• Cherif Hassan Nousradine, AT2TA ANR project, January 2024 - September 2024
  Development of the KGPrune web application
  Co-supervised with Miguel Couceiro

Last update: November 15, 2025