ACM Fellow; Director of Research Emeritus at Inria, France; Scientific Director of the Inria-Brasil international lab; Chief Scientific Officer at LeanXcale; Member of Zenith, a joint team between Inria, CNRS and University of Montpellier at LIRMM pursuing research in Data Science; Scientific Advisor for the International Relationships department at Inria; Collaborator at LNCC, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Recipient of the 1993 IBM Scientific Prize in Computer Science in France, the 2014 Innovation Award from Inria–French Academy of Science, and the Best Paper Award at VLDB 2000; Trustee Emeritus of the VLDB Endowment.