Riccardo Tommasini

Riccardo Tommasini is an Associate Professor at INSA Lyon, a leading engineering institution in France. He leads the Stream Processing and Knowledge Graphs research within the DB Team at LIRIS laboratory under Professor Angela Bonifati. His academic journey began with a PhD in Computer Science from Politecnico di Milano under Emanuele Della Valle, with a dissertation titled Velocity on the Web to be published as a Springer book.

Research Interests:

• Advancing stream processing for real-time data systems
• Extending knowledge graphs with dynamic data
• Designing graph databases for big data applications
• Creating query languages for heterogeneous data environments
• Building data engineering pipelines with Apache Airflow
• Enabling big graph processing in distributed settings

Key Contributions:

• Developed Zodiac framework for Datalog reasoning under rule amendments (ICDE 2025)
• Co-authored foundational Streaming Linked Data book with Springer (2023)
• Created RSP4J API for RDF stream processing (ESWC 2021)
• Designed challenge-based learning curriculum for Data Engineering courses

Scientific Recognition:

• Received ANR JCJC grant for POLYFLOW project (2024)
• Awarded Best Resource at ESWC 2021
• Managed industrial collaborations with Neo4j, InfluxData, and Confluent

Advising & Teaching:

• Supervises Mohamed Ragab (PhD candidate at University of Tartu)
Course Leadership:
• Foundational Data Engineering course at INSA Lyon and University of Tartu
• Structured around Apache Airflow, Docker, and graph databases