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About Us
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Driven by our passion for time series, machine learning, technology, and programming, we aim to build innovative tools that bridge cutting-edge research and practical applications.

For project-related inquiries, you are welcome to contact our team.

Core Maintainers
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Active developers and researchers who contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of our core libraries and tools. They oversee discussions, supervise technical decisions, and ensure consistent quality across the project.

Quentin Nater
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Quentin Nater is a PhD student jointly supervised by `Mourad Khayati <https://exascale.info/members/mourad-khayati/>`_ and `Philippe Cudré-Mauroux <https://exascale.info/phil/>`_ at the Department of Computer Science of the `University of Fribourg <https://www.unifr.ch/home/en/>`_ in Switzerland. His main research interests revolve around time series analytics, with a focus on data imputation, machine learning and multimodal learning.

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Mourad Khayati
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Mourad Khayati is a Senior Researcher and a Lecturer with the eXascale Infolab and the Advanced Software Engineering group, respectively, at the Department of Computer Science of the `University of Fribourg <https://www.unifr.ch/home/en/>`_, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Michael Böhlen. His research interests include Time Series analytics and data quality with a special focus on temporal data repair/cleaning. He is the recipient of the VLDB 2020 Best Experiments and Analysis Paper Award.

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Related Papers
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* Quentin Nater, Mourad Khayati, Jacques Pasquier: "ImputeGAP: A Comprehensive Library for Time Series Imputation" arXiv, 2025

* Mourad Khayati, Guillaume Chacun, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux: “A-DARTS: Stable Model Selection for Data Repair in Time Series.” Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025.

* Mourad Khayati, Quentin Nater, and Jacques Pasquier: “ImputeVIS: An Interactive Evaluator to Benchmark Imputation Techniques for Time Series Data.” Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2024.

* Mourad Khayati, Ines Arous, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux: “ORBITS: Online Recovery of Missing Blocks in Multiple Time Series Streams.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2021.

* Mourad Khayati, Alberto Lerner, Zakhar Tymchenko, and Philippe Cudré-Mauroux: “Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series.” In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2020.

* Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, and Michael H. Böhlen: “Scalable Recovery of Missing Blocks in Time Series with High and Low Cross-Correlations.” In the International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2020.

* Ines Arous, Mourad Khayati, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Ying Zhang, Martin Kersten, and Svetlin Stalinlov: “RecovDB: Accurate and Efficient Missing Blocks Recovery for Large Time Series.” In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.