Group Members

Prof. Etienne Rivière

Professor
email: etienne.riviere@uclouvain.be

• PhD Uni. of Rennes and Inria, France, 2007
• ERCIM Alain Bensoussan fellow at NTNU Trondheim and University of Neuchâtel (UniNE), 2008-2009
• Lecturer at UniNE, 2010-2017
• Habilitation in 2016
• Joined UCLouvain in Fall 2017

Raziel Carvajal Gómez

PhD student
email: raziel.carvajal-gomez@uclouvain.be

• B.S. & M.Sc Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México
• Research engineer at LINA and Inria, France
• Involved in the DIONASYS collaborative project.
• Topic: adaptive overlay networks in wireless systems and geo-distributed cloud systems.

Carole Djeumo Noucti

PhD student
email: carole.djeumo@uclouvain.be

• Dipl-Eng. Institut Africain d'Informatique de Libreville, Gabon
• M.Sc. University of Yaounde, Cameroon
• Involved in the RAINDROP collaborative project.
• Topic: Adaptation of micro-services applications in the edge-cloud continuum.

Paolo Laffranchini

PhD student (co advised by Prof Luis Rodriguez, IST Portugal, and Prof Ramin Sadre, UCLouvain)
email: paolo.laffranchini@student.uclouvain.be

• B.S. & M.Sc Universita degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
• Fellow of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing
• Topic: network measurements in software-defined networks.

Matthieu Pigaglio

PhD Student
email: matthieu.pigaglio@uclouvain.be

• M.Sc ENSEIRB, France
• Topic: performance and scalability of sharded blockchain systems.

Dr. Guillaume Rosinosky

Post-doctoral researcher
email: guillaume.rosinosky@uclouvain.be

• M. Eng & M.Sc CNAM Paris in evening studies while working as developer and lead developer (10 years)
• PhD Uni. of Lorraine and Inria, France, 2019
• Research interests: cloud/edge/fog computing, optimization, machine learning
• Topics: multi-site cloud programming, resource management for cloud computing and big data, blockchain infrastructures.

Donatien Schmitz

PhD Student
email: donatien.schmitz@uclouvain.be

• M.Sc UCLouvain, 2021
• Topic: resource management for cloud computing and big data applications.
• Involved in the GEPICIAD collaborative project.

Dr. Igor Zavalyshyn

Researcher
email: igor.zavalyshyn@uclouvain.be

• PhD, 2021 (advised by Prof Nuno Santos, IST Portugal, and Prof Ramin Sadre, UCLouvain)
• European Master in Distributed Computing, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden & Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
• Fellow of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing
• Topic: Private-by-design smart homes.

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Dr. Vikas Jaiman

April to December 2018
Role: Researcher, involved in the EBSIS H2020 and DIONASYS projects. Research on performance in key value stores under heterogeneous workloads. Now a research scientist at Lisk | Lightcurve, Berlin, Germany.

Dr. Ayham Kassab

December 2019 to November 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher, involved in the FairBCaaS project.

Dr. Michał Król

June 2019 to July 2020
Role: Post-doctoral research associate. Now a lecturer at City, University of London, UK.

Dr. Clay Palmeira Da Silva

March 2021 to December 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher

Dr. Viet-Hoang Tran

February 2020 to November 2021
Role: Post-doctoral researcher, involved in the FairBCaaS project.

Shraddha Bhojane

Master student

• Topic: Adaptive large-scale overlays using Gossip-based construction

Colin Evrard and Julien Lienard

Master students

• Topic: Anomaly detection on edge: A federated learning approach
• in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Klein, SIRRIS, Brussels

Nicolas Gennart

Master student

• Topic: access control in the OpenHAB smart home environment

François Genon and Sébastien Pierre

Master students

• Topic: Security of the IPFS content resolution system
• in collaboration with Dr. Michał Król, City, University of London, UK

Hugo Lloreda Sanchez and Sophie Tysebaert

Master students

• Topic: Blockchain-based secure audit trail for data sharing in distributed environment
• in collaboration with Dr. Annanda Rath, SIRRIS, Brussels

Alessio Robustella

Master student

• Topic: benchmarking and fairness in the Sawtooth blockchain

François Froment

Master student (2021)

• Topic: High performance computing for simulation of proton therapy treatments

Stanley Goffinet and Donatien Schmitz

Master student (2021)

• Topic: Controlling security rules using natural dialogue: An application to smart home care

Samir Marini Mohamed and Edgar Gevorgyan

Master student (2021)

• Topic: ErasMail, un outil open source pour aider les citoyens à évaluer et à réduire l'impact environnemental de leurs courriers électroniques dans le cloud

Guillaume Ortegat

Master student (2021)

• Topic: Leveraging edge proximity and diversity in interactive stateful applications

Alexandre Moueddene and Maxime Clement

Master student (2021)

• Topic: DAVE: Deterministic, Adaptive, Verifiable and Efficient transaction placement for sharded UTXO blockchains

Laritza Cabrera Alba

Master student (2020)

• Topic: Improving performance and tail latencies in key-value stores

Maxime De Streel

Master student (2020)

• Topic: Temporary infrastructures and Ad-Hoc networking for Mars explorers
• In collaboration with the UCL to Mars project

Antoine Denauw and Nicolas Sauvenée

Master students (2020)

• Topic: Adding new features to an account management web application at CISM

Aurélien Widart

Master student (2020)

• Topic: Scalable and extensible social networks

Laurent Desausoi

Master student (2020)

• Topic: A Secure and Auditable Dropbox using Intel SGX

Gary Lovisetto

Master student (2019)

• Topic: A foundation for extensible and decentralized social networks

Samuel Monroe & Rémy Voet

Master students (2019)

• Topic: Integrated platform for distributed systems training

Alessandra Rossaro & Corentin Surquin

Master students (2019)

• Topic: Portability of profiles in Mastodon using Blockchain

Jérome Navez & Xavier Pérignon

Master students (2018)

• Topic: Development of a cross-platform mobile application using cloud computing

Jean-Baptiste Macq & Emilio Gamba

Master student (2018)

• Topic: Parallelization of a hydrogeology simulation tool