John Samuel is an Associate Professor at CPE Lyon, France and also a researcher at LIRIS, CNRS, University of Lyon, France. He was a post-doctoral researcher in LIRIS, Université de Lyon in two different teams of database and geo-modelisation between 2014 and 2017. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Université Blaise Pascal, France in 2014. Prior to that he worked as software engineer in Yahoo!, Bangalore. His research interests include data integration, analysis and visualization, web image007.jpgservices, knowledge representation and geographical information systems.