Prof Etienne Rivière – personal page
I have been a professor of Computer Science at UCLouvain since September 2017.
Before joining UCLouvain, I was a lecturer at Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland since 2011.
I obtained my PhD in 2007 from Inria/University of Rennes under the guidance of Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec.
I was an ERCIM Alain Bensoussan fellow at NTNU Trondheim and University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) in 2008-2009.
I am a member of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL). I lead the Cloud and Large-Scale Computing group, part of the ICTEAM research institute.
I am the current chair of the INGI (Computing Science and Engineering) department, and vice-head of ICTEAM.
My research activities and publications are detailed in the research section of this website.
You can also consult my DBLP and Google Scholar profiles.
Projects
I am currently active in the following projects:
- Coordinator of CyberExcellence, a large, multi-university project on CyberSecurity in Wallonia and Brussels
- PI of HIST-ERA project SCEAL (2025-2028): Smart Contracts made Efficient, Accessible and Legitimate (with UAIC, Romania, and University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- Coordinator of ARC project RAINDROP (2022-2027): Cross-stack Adaptation for the Edgification of Microservices Applications (with Prof Ramin Sadre, UCLouvain and Prof. Anthony Clève, UNamur)
Previous projects:
- PI of Wallonia region GEPICIAD (2021-2025): Elastic and predictive infrastructure management for data lakes and big data processing.
- PI of FNRS FLECSIWAB (2021-): Setup of a federated infrastructure for experimental research in systems and networks in Wallonia and Brussels
- Coordinator of Innoviris SSHC (2021-2023): Security and privacy for smart-home environments and social interactions in home care scenarios
- Coordinator of Innoviris FairBCaaS (2019-2021): Benchmarking performances and bringing fairness in BlockChain-as-a-Service (with Prof Ramin Sadre)
- PI of FNRS DAPOCA (2019-2021): Dynamic and Adaptive Placement and Orchestration of Cloud Applications
- PI in H2020 Twinning project EBSIS (2016-2018);
- Coordinator of CHIST-ERA DIONASYS project (2015-2018);
- Coordinator of EU FP7 LEADS project (2012-2015);
- Participant in the EU FP7 SRT-15 project (2010-2013).
Service
Some of my recent service and involvement:
- PC co-chair for EDCC 2026
- PC co-chair for OPODIS 2024
- Publicity chair for EuroSys 2024
- General chair for OPODIS 2022 in Brussels;
- PC co-chair for ACM DEBS 2022;
- Shadow PC co-chair for ACM EuroSys 2020;
- Steering Committee member for Compas, the French-speaking series of conference in systems, architecture and parallelism;
- Chair of ACM SIGOPS France (ASF) from 2014 to 2018;
- Steering committee member for the OPODIS conference series (2015 to 2018, and 2024-now);
Program committees
Recent program committee involvement (2020-): [ICDCS 2026] [EuroPar 2026] [CCGrid 2026] [Applied 2026] [DAIS 2025] [EdgeSys 2025] [Applied 2025] [ICDCS 2025] [DSN 2024] [DAIS 2024] [Applied 2024] [SEC 2024] [OPODIS 2023] [DAIS 2023] [SRDS 2023] [Applied 2023] [Middlewedge 2022 (Middleware 2022 workshop)] [Consensus Days 2022] [ApPLIED 2022 (PODC 2022 workshop)] [SRDS 2022] [EuroSys 2022] [IEEE/IFIP DSN 2022] [OPODIS 2021] [ACM Middleware 2021] [IEEE SRDS 2021] [IEEE/IFIP LADC 2021] [D-NMEP 2021] [IEEE/IFIP DSN 2021] [ACM Middleware 2020] [IEEE ICDCS 2020] [IEEE SRDS 2020] [ACM DEBS 2020] [BRAINS 2020] [EdgeSys 2020]