Stéphane Bressan
MIT - Sloan School of Management
E53-320
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA, 02139

Phone: (617) 253-0151
Fax: (617) 253-4424
Email: steph@context.mit.edu

Dr. Stéphane Bressan is a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined MIT in 1996. He is working in the Information Technology group of the Sloan School of Management.

He graduated in 1987 with a degree in Computer Science, Electronics and Process Automation from the Ecole Universitaire D'Ingénieurs de Lille (France) and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the Laboratoire D'informatique Fondamentale of the University of Lille. His thesis studies the integration of object-oriented and deductive paradigms for representation and modeling of data and knowledge. From 1988 to 1994, he taught Database Systems, Expert Systems, Knowledge Representation, and Logic Programming at several institutions including the Ecole Universitaire d'Ingénieurs de Lille, the Centre National des Arts et Métiers, the Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes DOcumentaires, or the D.E.A. de Technologies Biomédicales de Lille.

In 1990, He joined the European Computer-industry Research Centre of Bull, ICL, and Siemens in Munich (Germany). In 1994, he was appointed site leader of the Database Platform project and principal investigator and work-package manager for the European IDEA ESPRIT project on Intelligent Databases.

Dr. Bressan's main areas of research are the integration of heterogeneous information systems, the design and implementation of deductive, object-oriented, and constraint databases, and the architecture of distributed information systems. His work has been published and presented at various occasions including the 1995 G7 summit on the Information Society, the 1995 and 1997 SIGMOD conference on the management of data, or the 1996 conference on Extending DataBase Technology. He is also a reviewer for several conferences and journals.

Last Updated April 23 1998