My name is Nelly Barret and I will become associate professor at INSA Lyon and the DRIM team at the LIRIS lab on September 2025.

Previously, I was a happy post-doctoral researcher in the DEIB department of Politecnico di Milano. I worked in the BETTER project with Pr. Pietro Pinoli, Anna Bernasconi, and Stefano Ceri. This project aims at building a network of 7 European cooperating hospitals, each providing very heterogeneous health data (clinical samples, genomic data, scans, etc.). The final goal is to provide a decentralized healthcare system to run federated analysis (statistical and AI-based) on different data (possibly across centers) to better understand 3 rare diseases (paediatric intelligence disability, eyes dystrophies, and suicidal behaviours of autistic patients).

Previously, I enjoyed being a PhD student at Inria Saclay, under the supervision of Pr. Ioana Manolescu in the CEDAR team, a joint team between Inria and École Polytechnique. My thesis was on summarization and exploration of semi-structured datasets. Before my PhD, I graduated from Université Lyon 1 where I obtained my Master in Artificial Intelligence.

Finally, since my undergraduate studies, I work on highly interesting and challenging fields, including heterogeneous data management, data integration, interoperability, data exploration, all possibly being AI- and/or LLM-flavoured. Dynamic and hard worker, I'm always ready to take on new challenges!

Website last update: July 22, 2025
My short curriculum (last update: April 2025)
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Contact

• Email: nelly(dot)barret(at)polimi(dot)it
• My LinkedIn page
• My ORCID is 0000-0002-3469-4149

Latest news

• 23/06/2025: I am officially becoming an associate professor on Sept. 2025!
• 23/10/2024: I received the 2nd prize from the BDA community, awarding PhDs with significant contributions to the data management field!
• 01/04/2024: New challenges ahead! I moved to Milano and I started a post-doctoral researcher contract.
• 15/03/2024: Last day as a PhD student: I defended my thesis at Inria Saclay, surrounded by a nice jury, the CEDAR team and my family!