AKIRA team

Fabien Azavant [www]
Fabien is a visiting scholar from the French Ecole Polytechnique from which he will graduate next July. He is currently working on a generic database representation for HTML and XML documents, as part of the on-going K2 project at the University of Pennsylvania. He will pursue his studies in telecommunications at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris.

Raman Chandrasekar [www]
Raman Chandrasekar is a post-doctoral Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) and the Center for Advanced Study of India (CASI). Much of his recent work has been in the areas of information retrieval and heuristic simplification of sentences. Chandrasekar has been working with Aravind Joshi and Srinivas on Glean, an automated information filtering system. The Glean system uses information latent in text, including syntactic information got from `supertagging', to filter out irrelevant items returned by information retrieval (IR) systems and web search engines, and thus increase the precision of retrieval.

Zoé Lacroix [www]
Zoé is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) of the University of Pennsylvania, where she took the initiative of the AKIRA project. She defended her Ph.D. thesis in June 1996 at the University of Paris XI (France). Her previous research done at the Verso Project (Inria-Rocquencourt, France) as well as LRI (Université Paris-Sud, France), covers Database Views, Object Oriented Databases, Constraint Databases, Optimization, Deductive Databases, Database Theory, Finite Model Theory, etc.

Arnaud Sahuguet [www]
Arnaud graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1994 and from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1996. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include cryptography and electronic commerce, information retrieval/extraction and database technology.

B. Srinivas [www]He defended his Ph.D and left IRCS (to AT&T labs.) and the AKIRA team. We do not forget he did the difficult first steps with us.

Fabien	Chandrasekar	Zoé	Arnaud