Pierre Bourhis is a member of UMR 9189 CRIStAL and a CNRS researcher. He received his PhD from the Université Paris Sud (2011). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science of Oxford University (2011-2013). He is a specialist in databases and knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
Pierre has worked in particular on various applications of logical reasoning: in cybersecurity with a CNRS Momentum project for which he was the project leader and a member of the IPoP cybersecurity PEPR, and in scientific data collection processes and crowd-sourcing in the ANR Headwork project. He is co-supervising a thesis on the theoretical foundations of databases of plays used in digital humanities. Three of his works have won awards: a Distinguishable Paper (Honorary Mention) at IJCAI 2015 for the paper Reasonable Highly Expressive Query Languages, the ICALP 2017 Track B Best Paper Award for the paper Characterizing Definability in Decidable Fixpoint Logics and the Sigmod Hilghlight Research 2020 award for the best papers of 2019 published in database conferences for the paper Constant-Delay Enumeration for Nondeterministic Document Spanners.