Marie-Christine Rousset
Marie-Christine Rousset is a computer scientist whose AI research connects knowledge representation and information integration. She earned an agrégation in mathematics at the École normale supérieure in 1980, then completed a computer science doctorate at Paris-Sud in 1983 and a doctorat d'état in 1988. After research and a professorship at Paris-Sud, she moved to Joseph Fourier University in 2005 and co-authored Web Data Management in 2011. She won the AAAI Best Paper Award in 1996, joined the Institut Universitaire de France in 1997, and became a EurAI Fellow in 2005; with Patrick Loiseau, she co-led an explainable and responsible AI chair from 2019 to 2023. In April 2025, she moderated a PERSYVAL panel on Big Data and AI at a Grenoble workshop.
- Now at
- CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes
- Works
- 272
- Citations
- 2,736
- h-index
- 26
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1980–1988
Mathematics and computer science
She earns an agrégation in mathematics at the École normale supérieure in 1980, then completes a computer science doctorate at Paris-Sud in 1983 and a doctorat d'état in 1988.
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1981–2005
From Paris-Sud to Grenoble
She works as a researcher at the Laboratory for Computer Science at Paris-Sud from 1981 to 1989 and as a professor there from 1989 to 2005. In 2005, she moves to Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble.
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1996
An AAAI paper award
She receives AAAI's Best Paper Award in 1996 with Alon Levy for their paper Verification of Knowledge Bases based on Containment Checking.
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1997–2016
Institut Universitaire de France
She joins the Institut Universitaire de France as a junior member in 1997, becomes a senior member in 2011, and is renewed in 2016.
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2005
A EurAI fellowship
She is elected a EurAI Fellow in 2005 and is included on the association's current Fellows list.
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2011
Web Data Management
In 2011, she co-authors Web Data Management with Serge Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Rigaux, and Pierre Senellart. The book covers distributed data management on the Web and topics such as description logics and data integration.
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2019–2023
Explainable and responsible AI
From 2019 to 2023, she and Patrick Loiseau co-lead MIAI's Explainable and Responsible AI chair. Her research covers knowledge representation and information integration.
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April 2025
Moderating a PERSYVAL panel
For PERSYVAL, she moderates a panel on Big Data and AI at a Grenoble workshop in April 2025.
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