Seventh European Business Intelligence & Big Data Summer School (eBISS 2017)

Directors of the School

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  Stijn Vansummeren

  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Stijn Vansummeren is a professor at the CoDE Department of the ULB, where he teaches databases and web technologies. He received a Bachelor in Computer Science (1999) from the Faculty of Sciences at Hasselt University, Belgium; a Master in Computer Science (2001) from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands; and a PhD in Science from Hasselt University, Belgium. His research work covers all aspects of data management, both traditional on the Web. His recent work focuses on aspects of provenance in scientific databases; database programming languages; the foundations of query languages for XML and RDF; and query processing on the Web.

  Email:   stijn.vansummeren@ulb.ac.be
  Web:   http://code.ulb.ac.be/code.people.php?id=992

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  Esteban Zimányi

  Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB. During 1997, he was a visiting researcher at the Database Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. His current research interests include data warehouses, spatio-temporal databases, geographic information systems, semantic web and web services.

  Email:   ezimanyi@ulb.ac.be
  Web:   http://cs.ulb.ac.be/members/esteban