معرفی
Stefania Dumbrava is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at ENSIIE (École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise) and a permanent member of the ACMES team in the SAMOVAR laboratory at Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. She is also actively involved in the Property Graph Schema Working Group and the European Research Network on Formal Proofs (EuroProofNet).
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Université Paris-Sud (2016)
- MSc in Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen (2012)
- BSc in Mathematics, Jacobs University Bremen (2010)
Research Interests
Dumbrava's research lies at the intersection of formal methods and data management. She designs and verifies algorithms and systems for graph databases, with emphasis on property graphs, schema discovery, query optimization, and distributed graph processing. Recently, her work focuses on certifying large-scale distributed graph systems under the ANR JCJC VERDI project (2025–2029).
Awards & Honors
- SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2023 – “PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs”
- SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2023 – “Threshold Queries”
- VLDB 2022 Best Regular Research Paper Runner-Up – “Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild”
- SIGMOD 2025 Distinguished Reviewer Award
- ICDE 2025 Best Program Committee Member Award
- EASST Best Software Science Paper Award, ICGT 2025
Students & Grants
Dumbrava has supervised numerous research interns and is actively recruiting PhD students for her ANR VERDI project on verified foundations of large-scale distributed graph systems. She has also served on six PhD thesis committees as examiner since 2021.
Labs & Teams
She leads the ACMES research group within the SAMOVAR laboratory (Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), where her team develops formally verified graph-database engines and tools such as GRASP, VerDILog, and DatalogCert.
