Sébastien Ferré
Research Engineer at Ndea
Rennes, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolSébastien Ferré is a research engineer with over 12 years of experience bridging formal semantic technologies and user-centered interfaces for knowledge bases. He has spent two decades in academia and research developing theories and prototypes—most notably Sewelis—that make RDF/RDFS stores and SPARQL more accessible through interactive faceted search and editing. Formerly a professor at Université de Rennes 1, he combines deep algorithmic and semantic-web expertise with hands-on implementation and teaching in functional programming, compilers, and data mining. His work uniquely focuses on reconciling expressive query languages with usable exploratory tools, turning theoretical insights into practical software. Based in Rennes, France, he brings a pragmatic researcher’s mindset—balancing rigor with usability—to projects that aim to democratize structured data editing and exploration.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rennes
English, French, Esperanto
Github Skills (26)
query-builder10
in-progress10
faceted-search10
semantic-web10
entities10
linked-data10
explore10
endpoints10
rdf10
sparql10
language-processing9
datasets9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sebferre/sparklis
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
Sparklis is a query builder in natural language that allows people to explore and query SPARQL endpoints with all the power of SPARQL and without any knowledge of SPARQL.
Contributions:2 reviews, 743 commits, 2 PRs in 9 years 2 months
natural-language-interfaceendpointssemantic-websparql-endpointsnatural-language
sebferre/ARC-MDL
Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 2 years 5 months
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