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About Me

Hi! My name is Andrei and I am Tech Lead at Qwant, where I work on projects related to privacy and data ownership.

Before joining Qwant, I lead a really cool project at MIT together with Prof. Tim Berners-Lee. Solid aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy for users on the Web.

Finally, I am a former W3C team member. There I participated in Web standards work on topics around identity, authentication and also Semantic Web technologies such as LDP and LDPatch. You will find more details in the Activity section below.

Below you can find a list of things I can help you with. Keep in mind that I am a "No bullshit" person that likes to get things done in the shortest amount of time.

Web Architecture Web Services Open Data Linked Data Information Security Data Privacy Applied Cryptography Web Standards Open Governance

Education

Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France)

Ph.D. in Computer Science • Oct 2013

My Ph.D involved research into decentralized identity, authentication, and access control. If you are interested in reading my manuscript, it is publicly available from archives-ouvertes.fr.

TELECOM SudParis (France)

M.Sc. in Computer and Communication Networks • June 2010

This Masters programme covered subjects on general communication networks, computer security and applied cryptography.

Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania)

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computers • Sept 2006

My studies covered a variety of topics ranging from theoretical electrical engineering subjects to networking and computer science.

Work

Qwant

https://qwant.com • 2014 - present

Tech Lead at Qwant, working on projects related to privacy and data ownership.

MIT

https://solid.mit.edu • 2014 - 2017

Tech lead for Solid, an exciting project led by Prof. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, taking place at MIT. The project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.

GovLab

http://www.thegovlab.org • 2016 - 2017

GovLab is a network of partners working to strengthen the ability of institutions – including but not limited to governments – and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems. The network includes NYU, MIT, Harvard Business School, Arizona State University Center for Policy Informatics, George Washington University and Columbia Business School.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

https://www.w3.org • 2014 - 2017

As a staff member, I participated in the Linked Data Platform Working Group which provides an architecture for read-write Linked Data on the Web. This standard, which is used not just in Solid but by other industry technologies, progressed at a quick pace and involved cross-industry collaboration, testing and multiple implementations. I am also the author of the Linked Data Patch Format, which defines a language for expressing a sequence of operations for patching Linked Data resources.

Public speaking

SXSW Conference 2018

Panel member • 2018

Starting the Internet All Over Again panel at South by Southwest© 2018

DTL Conference 2017

Panel member • 2017

Disruptive approaches in transparency: Implementing Transparency panel at Data Transparency Lab 2018
Watch recording on Youtube

Decentralizing the Web

Keynote speaker • 2015

3rd edition of the Web.br Conference
Watch recording on Youtube

Workshop chair

DeSemWeb2017

Chairs: Ruben Verborgh, Andrei Sambra, Tobias Kuhn• 2017

The 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
Workshop homepage

WWW Developers Day

Chairs: Oshani Seneviratne, Andrei Sambra, Lalana Kagal• 2016

25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW 2016)
Workshop homepage

Publications

Building decentralized applications for the social Web

Andrei Sambra, Amy Guy, Sarven Capadisli, Nicola Greco• 2016

25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW 2016)
BibTeX file

A demonstration of the solid platform for social web applications

Essam Mansour, Andrei Vlad Sambra, Sandro Hawke, et al.• 2016

25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web (WWW 2016)
BibTeX file

CIMBA: client-integrated microblogging architecture

Andrei Sambra, Sandro Hawke, Timothy Berners-Lee, et al.• 2014

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014)
BibTeX file

The Web Browser Personalization with the Client Side Triplestore

Hitoshi Uchida, Ralph Swick, Andrei Sambra• 2014

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014)
BibTeX file

Extending the WebID protocol with access delegation

Sebastian Tramp, Henry Story, Andrei Sambra, et al.• 2012

International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)
BibTeX file

Context-aware decentralized approach for web services

Andrei Vlad Sambra, Maryline Laurent• 2012

IEEE Eighth World Congress on Services (SERVICES)
BibTeX file

A Trustful Authentication and Key Exchange Scheme (TAKES) for ad hoc networks

Tony Cheneau, Andrei Vlad Sambra, Maryline Laurent• 2011

5th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS)
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MyProfile-Decentralized User Profile and Identity on the Web

Andrei Vlad Sambra, Maryline Laurent• 2011

W3C's Federated Social Web Workshop (FSW2011)
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Friending On The Social Web

Andrei Vlad Sambra, Henry Story, Sebastian Tramp• 2011

W3C's Federated Social Web Workshop (FSW2011)
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MyProfile-Privacy Aware Decentralized Identity on the Web

Andrei Vlad Sambra, Maryline Laurent• 2011

1st International Conference on Secure networking and Applications (ICSNA)
BibTeX file

Web Standards

Linked Data Patch Format

W3C Working Group Note 28 July 2015
W3C Spec

LDP 1.0 - Linked Data Platform

W3C Recommendation 26 February 2015
W3C Spec

WebID 1.0 - Web Identity and Discovery

W3C Editor's Draft 05 March 2014
W3C Spec

WebID-TLS 1.0 - Web Authentication over TLS

W3C Editor's Draft 05 March 2014
W3C Spec

Contact

Contact Details

Andrei Vlad Sambra
Qwant Research
7 rue Spontini
Paris 75016, France
a.sambra [at] qwant.com