Biography

Karine Zeitouni is a distinguished professor (PREX2) in Computer Science at the Technical Institute of Technology of Vélizy – UVSQ – Université Paris-Saclay. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and her HDR (Habilitation for Research Supervision) from the University of Versailles. Until June 2025, she served as Deputy Director of the Graduate School of Computer Science (GS ISN) and led the (ADAM) group at DAVID laboratory. Her primary research interests include databases, big data, and data mining, with a particular focus on spatial and temporal data. She applies her research to fields such as transportation, environmental science, astrophysics, and health. Throughout her career, she has supervised 16 Ph.D. students and has co-authored over 120 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Her research is funded through national grants, multi-partner projects, European, and bilateral collaboration programs. She regularly serves as a PC member in international conferences related to spatial databases and data mining, machine learning, and she reviews articles for various national and international journals in these fields. She has co-chaired several national and international conferences and workshops.

Research Group

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News

** September 2026 - I am on sabbatical leave and affiliated as a Visiting Professor at the TICLab, Université Internationale de Rabat (UIR), Morocco.

** September 2026 — I am honored to deliver a keynote talk at the ADBIS 2026 Conference on recent recent advances and challenges in mobility data analytics.

** VLDB 2028 – Save the Date — I am delighted to announce that I will serve as General Co-Chair of the 54th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2028), which will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, in September 2028. This will be the first VLDB conference hosted in Morocco. More details will be announced in the coming months. Save the date!