Jérôme Euzenat

Timeline

1. 1988–1992

   Engineering and a Grenoble PhD

   After studying computer science at the University of Paris 7, he works as an engineer at Cognitech from 1988 to 1989 and in Bull-Cediag's artificial intelligence division from 1989 to 1991. He earns a PhD in informatics from Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble in 1990 with work on reasoning maintenance systems, then works for Ilog in 1992.

2. 1992–1999

   Joining INRIA Rhône-Alpes

   After a year lecturing at the ENSIMAG engineering school, he joins INRIA Rhône-Alpes in 1992 and works in the Sherpa project on object-based knowledge representation, then from 1995 to 1999 on collaborative building of consensual knowledge bases. In 1998, he co-edits the INRIA book Langages et modèles à objets with Roland Ducournau, Gérald Masini and others. He receives his habilitation from Joseph Fourier University in 1999.

3. 2000–2016

   Leading the Exmo team

   From 2000 to 2016, he leads the INRIA Exmo team, which he sets up to work on computer-mediated communication of structured knowledge. The team contributes to the take-off of the semantic web and linked data.

4. 2004

   An API for ontology alignment

   In 2004, at the International Semantic Web Conference in Hiroshima, he presents a format for expressing ontology alignments in RDF, so that they can be published on the web, together with an Alignment API that implements it. He also joins the organiser steering committee of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative in 2004.

5. 2007–2013

   The Ontology Matching book

   He helps define and develop the field of ontology matching, which finds correspondences between semantically related entities of different ontologies. With Pavel Shvaiko, he writes Ontology Matching, published by Springer in 2007, as an answer to the semantic heterogeneity problem faced by computer systems. A thoroughly revised second edition with more than 150 pages of new content appears in 2013.

6. 2014

   An ECCAI fellowship

   In 2014, he is elected a Fellow of ECCAI, now the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).

7. 2017–2019

   Founding the mOeX team

   In 2017, he starts the mOeX team with colleagues to study how people and agents keep a reasonable understanding through formal knowledge while preserving knowledge diversity, a line of work he calls artificial cultural knowledge evolution. In 2019, he gives the keynote "For knowledge" at ISWC 2019, the 18th International Semantic Web Conference, on making knowledge evolve by drawing on cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.

8. As of October 2026

   Head of the mOeX team

   He is a senior research scientist (directeur de recherche) at INRIA in Grenoble, where he heads the mOeX team and teaches knowledge representation at Université Grenoble Alpes. In June 2025, he gives a Distinguished Lecture at Paderborn University on cultural knowledge evolution in artificial agent societies.