Ioana Manolescu
About Ioana Manolescu
Ioana Manolescu is a Cedar Team Leader at Inria and a part-time professor at École Polytechnique, specializing in efficient processing of Semantic Web data. She has an extensive academic background, holding degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and has worked in various research roles across Europe.
Work at Inria
Ioana Manolescu serves as the Cedar Team Leader at Inria, a position she has held since 2016. In this role, she focuses on distributed data management and leads a team dedicated to efficient processing of Semantic Web data. Her leadership in the Cedar team emphasizes innovative approaches to data handling and management, contributing to advancements in the field.
Education and Expertise
Ioana Manolescu has a strong educational background in computer science and engineering. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest from 1993 to 1996. She then obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science from Ecole normale supérieure, studying from 1996 to 1999, followed by another Master’s in Computer Science from 1996 to 1998. She completed her PhD in Databases and Distributed Query Optimization at UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 1998 to 2001. Her expertise includes computational fact-checking and data journalism.
Current Academic Role
Since 2016, Ioana Manolescu has also been a part-time professor at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France. In this role, she contributes to the academic community by sharing her knowledge and expertise in computer science and data management with students and colleagues.
Previous Positions
Prior to her current roles, Ioana Manolescu worked at Inria as the Team Leader of the OAK team from 2012 to 2015. She also served as a research consultant and post-doctoral researcher at Politecnico di Milano for five months in 2002. Additionally, she was a member of the XQuery Working Group at W3C from 2005 to 2006, where she contributed to the development of standards in XML query languages.