Biography
Georges
GARDARIN was born in
Riom, France on February 19, 1947. Georges enters Ecole
Normale Superieure de l'Enseignement Technique in 1968. From 1971 to 1978, he was
assistant professor at Paris VI University. During that period, he was
also consultant at Ordoprocessor where he built a computer system, and
at Renault, where he designed a new distributed information system.
Georges did
his PhD Thesis in 1978 on Concurrency Control in Distributed
Databases at University of Paris VI. From 1978 to 1980, he was visiting
professor at UCLA, California. He published several papers on
concurrency control and database integrity, notably with Prof. W. Chu
and M. Melkanoff.
From 1980 to 1990, Georges was professor at Paris VI University, teaching databases and distributed systems. He was also chief scientist at INRIA where he headed the Sabre project, which was developing an object-relational parallel DBMS. The project members started a company in 1985 that was finally sold to EDS in 1991.
From 1990 to 2000, Georges created and developed the PRiSM Research Laboratory at the new University of Versailles Saint-Quentin. During 10 years, he headed the PRiSM research laboratory, the computer science research laboratory of UVSQ specialized in Parallelism, Networking, DBMSs and Performance Modeling. The laboratory was composed of 40 permanent researchers and more than 60 PHD students in 2000.
Georges
is currently working on a P2P mediation system based on the
XLive mediator and on text mining applications.
Georges Gardarin has written more than 120 papers in international journal and conferences, and several books in French, some of them being translated in English and Spanish.