Maxime Lefrançois
Maître Assistant at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
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Top SchoolMaxime Lefrançois is an Associate Professor (Maître Assistant) at Mines Saint-Étienne and a researcher at LIMOS (CNRS UMR 6158) specializing in Semantic Web, ontology engineering, and semantic interoperability for cyber-physical systems. With a strong academic foundation from École Normale Supérieure and multiple masters plus a PhD on Meaning‑Text Theory, he bridges theoretical linguistics and practical knowledge engineering to make IoT and data spaces speak the same semantic language. His work spans methodologies for knowledge engineering, semantic interoperability in IoT, and data spaces, and he has contributed to standards such as the OGC/W3C SSN ontology and the ETSI SmartM2M reference ontology. He combines over a decade of research and teaching with applied consulting for industry projects (e.g., smart energy systems), demonstrating an ability to translate formal models into deployed solutions. Based in Saint-Étienne, he brings a rare mix of lexical-semantic expertise and systems-level thinking that informs both academic publications and standards work. Colleagues value him for turning linguistic theory into operational ontologies that improve real-world sensor and data integration.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, S, option S.I., spécialité Mathématiques, Baccalauréat, S, option S.I., spécialité Mathématiques at Lycée Jean GuéhennoMaster 2 (M2), Computer Science, Master 2 (M2), Computer Science at Université Pierre Mendès-France (Grenoble II)Master 2 (M2), Signal Processing, Master 2 (M2), Signal Processing at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)CPGE, PSI, CPGE, PSI at Lycée Victor Hugo, CAENagrégation de Mécanique, Mécanique, agrégation de Mécanique, Mécanique at Ecole normale supérieure
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (106)
jena10
apache-jena10
triplestore10
linked-open-data10
spatial-data10
rdf10
sparql10
sparql-generate10
linked-data10
wizard9
web-of-things9
data-management9
owl9
spatial9
topology9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sparql-generate/sparql-generate-editor
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
YASQE with support for the SPARQL-Generate syntax
Contributions:36 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 10 months
sparqlsparql-generaterdf
OpenSensingCity/jena-ucum
Mar 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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