Summary
Hala Skaf-Molli is a professor at the University of Nantes and leader of the Distributed Data Management Group (GDD) at LS2N, with over 12 years of experience in research and academic leadership. Her expertise spans the Semantic Web, decentralized semantic data management, federated SPARQL query processing, knowledge graphs, and Linked Data, and she coordinates national projects like ANR DeKaloG and the MiKroloG LabEx effort. She directs the Master ALMA in Software Architecture and founded the Club des Femmes en Informatique at Nantes Université, combining technical stewardship with active mentorship and community building. Hala’s work bridges theoretical foundations and applied decentralized knowledge graph systems, emphasizing interoperability and federated querying at scale. Based in Nantes, she brings long-standing academic teaching experience from Nancy to Nantes and holds an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, reflecting her role in supervising advanced research. Less visible but notable, she consistently aligns collaborative national projects with hands-on team leadership to move semantic technologies toward real-world deployments.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches at Nantes Université
English, French