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Introduction
Introduction by
Prof. Ulrich Finger, director
EURECOM’s mission involves research and education in
communication systems, with special emphasis on mobile
communications, multimedia and networking & security.
The field of communication systems has been developing at a
breathtaking pace, which poses numerous technical and economical
challenges such as scalability, reduced power consumption and
increased capacity, or time to market.
EURECOM addresses these challenges in both its teaching and
research:
• Many research projects are carried out jointly with other academic
or industrial partners
• Our research results enrich our teaching and many of the course
projects carried out by our students are part of ongoing research
efforts.
From the very beginning, EURECOM has been strongly committed
to excellence in teaching and research.
A very important factor in reaching this level of excellence resides in
the hiring of a strong faculty which would attract top students and
vice versa.
EURECOM’s excellence is recognized on the international stage: we
received the prestigious IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award
and our faculty members have received many Best Paper awards,
they are regularly invited to participate in the organization of
prestigious scientific events and host a large number of scientific
visitors.
These few pages aim to give you a brief introduction to the specialists
who contribute to EURECOM’s diversity and expertise, but mostly to
encourage you to meet them !
Ulrich Finger
Overview
Overview
EURECOM was founded in 1991. It is administered by a Programmes
Consortium and has partnerships with several academic
institutions and industrials. Institut Telecom is a founding
member. From the very beginning, EURECOM’s main distinction
has always been its international focus
EURECOM offers programmes at the graduate level and post
graduate level
- Master programme in Communications Systems
in compliance with the new european higher education
standards (BMD) and its cumulative credit system (ECTS)
Academic Partnership
- Doctoral programme in Communications Systems
Several leading European schools send their students to
EURECOM for the final part of their engineering studies in
Communications Systems.
These are French schools that are part of the Institut Telecom
(Telecom ParisTech, Telecom Bretagne and Telecom Sud Paris
& management), the Swiss Federal Institutes (EPF Lausanne
and ETH Zürich), and European Universities (Politecnico di
Torino in Italy, the Helsinki University of Technology TKK,
in Finland , Technische Universität München in Germany,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway).
- Master of Science :
EURECOM is offering, via the Institut Telecom
(Telecommunications Schools Group) and ParisTech,
three Master of Science programmes aimed principally at
international students : - Mobile Communications
- Communications & computer security
- Multimedia Information Technologies
Close Long-Term Ties with Industry
The current members of the consortium are : Swisscom,
THALES , SFR, ORANGE, ST Ericsson, CISCO , BMW Group
Research and Technology, Symantec, Monaco Telecom, SAP.
Teaching
Programmes have been designed specifically to teach students
the skills required to work with communication systems. It
emphasizes an integrated view of communication systems
combining all aspects from the physical layer up to uses.
A worlwide renowned Faculty
EURECOM research teams are made up of international
experts, recruited at the highest level, whose work is regularly
honored and has earned international recognition.
These companies offer research projects and internships, and
greatly contribute to guaranteeing that the academic program
fits the current needs of business.
One of the benefits of the long-term relationship developed
by EURECOM with its partners is a better knowledge of
each party’s research domains and capabilities.
Also, intellectual property is reviewed and resolved in
advance by EURECOM and its partners. This contractual
agreement is simplified for the benefit of all partners
involved.
Outstanding research
in communication systems
Research at EURECOM is characterized by a twofold goal: on
one hand it ensures high quality and topicality of education and
on the other hand it aims at answering questions regarding
the future development of our information society.
EURECOM is particularly active in its areas of excellence
while also training a large number of doctoral candidates.
Its contractual research is recognized across Europe and
contributes largely to its budget.
Thanks to its strong ties set up with the industry, EURECOM
was awarded the “Institut Carnot” label jointly with the Institut
Telecom right from 2006.
The Carnot Label was designed to develop and professionalize
cooperative research. It encourages the realization of research
projects in public research centers that work together with
socio-economic actors, especially companies
Areas of interest
Networking and security
the departement Networking and Security focuses on
distributed computer applications and the underlying
communication mechanisms. While the measurement and
modeling of network traffic is essential to the design of new
algorithms and protocols, security appears to be an emerging
component of this activity through the capture and analysis of
malicious behavior and the design of new countermeasures
both for the distributed software applications and the
communication systems.
Key words : Network protocols, peer-to-peer systems,
distributed algorithms, scheduling, measurement, tomography,
modeling, game theory, network security, cryptography,
information assurance, privacy, trust management, system
security, intrusion detection, malware detection, malware
analysis, secure programming.
Multimedia
Communications
Multimedia Communications investigate technologies that
analyze and combine different types of information (audio,
image, video and text).
Multimedia technologies are able to compress, encode, index,
transfer and visualize information. With the tremendous
expansion of digital media, they are essential in the development
of advanced and intelligent applications that better serve the
needs of single users and communities.
Key words : Audio-visual communications, multimedia networks,
communications support for dispersed groups, user centered
design, affective computing, multimedia document indexing...
Mobile
Communications
Mobile communications are facing unprecedented revolution.
The emergence of multimedia requires the convergence
of internet, broadcast and telecommunication networks. In
order to provide services to a large population of users, the
redesign of communications strategies, radio spectrum
sharing policies, Qos control modes and eventually the
overall architecture of mobile networks must be carried out.
Wireless technologies are federating smart sensors. All these
applications require advances in domains ranging from radio
to network architecture and communication theory.
Key words : Radio transmission, digital cellular networks,
wireless data transmission, radio local area networks, mobility
management in networks, LTE, radio cognitive
Networking and Security Dept
Davide BALZAROTTI
Email
Davide.Balzarotti@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 56
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l PhD in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2006
l Postdoctoral researcher in computer security at University of California
- Santa Barbara (2006 - 2008)
4TEACHING:
He is currently Assistant Professor within the Department of Networking
and Security where he teaches software development.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Before joining EURECOM, Davide spent almost two years in Santa Barbara
as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at
UCSB, working in the Computer Security Lab with Professor Giovanni Vigna
and Professor Richard Kemmerer.
In 2007 he participated in the red team involved in testing the capability
and security of the voting machines certified for use in the State of Ohio
(Project Everest) and he was also a member of the red team in the topto-bottom review of the electronic voting machines certified for use in
California.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests include most aspects of system security and in
particular the areas of intrusion detection and prevention, binary and
malware analysis, reverse engineering, and web security.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He has been a program committee member for several international
conferences and workshops. He is co-chair at RAID 2011.
He was a member of the red team involved in testing the capability and
security of the voting machines certified for use in the State of Ohio
(Project Everest) and in the top-to-bottom review of the electronic voting
machines certified for use in California.
4 ADDITIONAL information
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/balzarot.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Advanced malware analysis, with
a particular focus on techniques to
identify and classify malicious code
that implements countermeasures to
avoid automatic analysis.
New threats in web security.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger,
G. Vigna «Multi-Module Vulnerability
Analysis of Web-based Applications»
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communication Security
(ACM CCS) 2007
D. Balzarotti, G. Banks, M. Cova, V.
Felmetsger, R. Kemmerer, W. Robertson,
F. Valeur, G. Vigna «Are Your Votes Really
Counted? Testing the Security of Realworld Electronic Voting Systems»
International Symposium on Software
Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) - Seattle, WA,
July 20-24 2008
G. Vigna, W. Robertson, and D. Balzarotti
«Testing
Network-based
Intrusion
Detection Signatures Using Mutant
Exploits»
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Computer and Communication Security
(ACM CCS 2004)
D. Balzarotti, M. Cova, V. Felmetsger, N.
Jovanovic, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna
«Saner: Composing Static and Dynamic
Analysis to Validate Sanitization in Web
Applications»
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE Symposium
on Security and Privacy - Oakland,
California, May 18-21,
2008
Networking and Security Dept
Ernst BIERSACK
Email
Ernst.Biersack@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 11
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Technische
Universität München, Munich, Germany and an «Habilitation à Diriger des
Recherches» from University of Nice.
l For the academic year 1982--1983, he was awarded a fellowship from
the Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
4TEACHING:
Since 1992 he has been teaching courses at EURECOM in the areas of
computer networking and distributed systems.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From March 1989 to February 1992 he was a Member of Technical Staff with
the Computer Communications Research District of Bell Communications
Research, Morristown, US.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His areas of research are distributed systems and computer networks,
with emphasis on scalability. In the past he has been working transport
protocol design, video server architectures, large multicast distribution,
web caching and content distribution, and scheduling.
His current research is in peer-to-peer systems and their applications such
as video streaming or massive multi-player games.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is currently an associate editor of the IEEE Networking Magazine and
the ACM Computer Communication Review.
He was conference co-chair of several international conferences and
member of PC of numerous international conferences and guest editor of a
special issue of IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications.
He has organised numerous conferences. Most recently he has been General
Co-chair of ACM Sigcomm 2009 and TPC co-chair of Co-Next 2009.
He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.
4 ADDITIONAL information
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/erbi.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Network Tomography
DISTINCTIONS
He is co-recipient of several best
paper awards, the most prestigious
being the 1999 W. R. Bennet Award of
the IEEE for the best paper published
1998 in the ACM/IEEE Transactions on
Networking.
In 2000 he received together with P.
Rodriguez The “Prix de la Recherche
2000 de L’Association Telecom Valley”
for outstanding research in the field of
scalable Internet technologies.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
M. Steiner, T. En-Najjary, and E. W.
Biersack. Long Term Study of Peer
Behavior in the KAD DHT. IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, 2009
M. Izal, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. Biersack, P.
Felber, A. Al Hamra, and L. Garces-Erice.
Dissecting BitTorrent: Five Months in a
Torrent.s Lifetime. In Proc. Passive &
Active Measurement: PAM-2004.
I. A. Rai, G. Urvoy-Keller, M. Vernon,
and E. W. Biersack. Performance models
for LAS-based scheduling disciplines
in a packet switched network. In ACM
SIGMETRICS-Performance, June 2004
P. Rodriguez and E. W. Biersack. Dynamic
Parallel-Access to Replicated Content
in the Internet. IEEE/ACM Transactions
on Networking, 10(4):455--464, August
2002.
J. Nonnenmacher, E. W. Biersack, and
Don Towsley. Parity-Based Loss Recovery
for Reliable Multicast Transmission.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking,
6(4):349--361, August 1998.
Mobile Communications Dept
Christian BONNET
Email
Christian.Bonnet@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 08
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor, Department Head 4 EDUCATION :
l MSc degree from Ecole Nationale des Mines de Nancy in 1978, France.
4TEACHING:
Christian Bonnet joined EURECOM as an associate professor in 1992. Since
1998 he is at the head of the Mobile Communications Department of
EURECOM. His teaching activities are :
•
Real time and distributed systems
•
Mobile Communications systems
•
Wireless LAN and Ad Hoc Networking
•
Protocols for mobile Internet
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Prof Christian Bonnet started his career in the domain of programming
languages.
He participated to the definition of the programming language ADA. and
the implementation of the first European ADA compiler within the ALSYS
company.
He joined GSI-TECSI in 1983 as a consultant. He worked on different
projects related to radio communications systems, value added networks
and real time systems. In 1987 he was appointed Director of the Real Time
Department of GSI Tecsi and Responsible for the R&D European IST projects
(DESCARTES, DRAGON, REX.)
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Protocols for mobility management for all IP based systems
• Medium Access Control Protocols on the radio access (wireless LAN, Ad Hoc Networks)
• Mobile Ad Hoc protocols (routing, multicast, topology management)
• Cross Layer design of wireless systems
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is a member of the competitivity cluster SCS project committee;
CNRS: Department STIC – He was member of the steering committee RTP01
(Communications Network)
He is an expert reviewer for ANVAR
He co-organized the Hitachi EURECOM Symposium for 10 years and several
workshops on wireless systems.
He has been on the technical program committee of several international
conferences.
He is a member of IEEE.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/bonnet.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Cross layer design for wireless
networks
- Seamless mobility management for
multihomed terminals
- New generation of wireless Internet
DISTINCTIONS
He received the Best Technical Paper
Award of the VTC’ Fall 2005, 62nd
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Dallas, USA with Jérôme Haerri for” A
lower bound for vehicles’ trajectory
duration”
In 2001 he received with his team
members the “Prix de la Recherche
Telecom Valley” for outstanding
research in the field of Software
Defined Radio
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Romdhani, Lamia; Bonnet, Christian
A cross-layer feature for an efficient
forwarding strategy in wireless ad hoc
networks
AINA 2006, 20th IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Information
Networking and Applications, April 18-20,
2006, Vienna, Austria
Anouar, Hicham; Bonnet, Christian
A self-balanced receiver-oriented MAC
protocol for multiple channels multihop
ad-hoc networks
VTC’ Spring 2005, 61st Semiannual IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference, 30th
May - 1st June, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
Dunat, Jean-Christophe Grandblaise, D;
Bonnet, Christian
Collaborative allocation of orthogonal
frequency division multiplex sub-carriers
using the Swarm intelligence
JCM, Journal of Communications Volume
1 Issue 1, April 2006 , pp 68-76
Mobile Communications Dept
Laura COTTATELLUCCI
Email
Laura.Cottatellucci@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 37
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Information Theory for Networks with
Uncertain Topology, January-November 2006, University of South Australia,
Adelaide, Australia.
l Research Fellowship in Ad-hoc networks, October-December 2005,
INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France.
l Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2006, Technical University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria.
l M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, 1995, University “La Sapienza”, Rome,
Italy.
4TEACHING:
She is currently Assistant Professor within the Department of Mobile
Communicationss where she teaches Coding Theory.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 1995 to 2000 she was appointed Design Engineer, responsible for
technical design, development and implementation of data and voice
enterprise networks in Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy.
From 2000 to September 2005 she worked as Senior Research on MIMO
systems, multiuser detection and channel estimation for CDMA systems,
and satellite communications in ftw., Vienna, Austria.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
She is interested in signal processing, multiuser information and
communications theory for wireless networks. More specifically, her work
is focused on the fundamental limits and design criteria of large wireless
systems by making use of random matrix theory and free probability.
Resource allocation with cooperative and opportunistic schemes and
crosslayer design ,eventually based on game theory, ad-hoc networks are
also primary research interests.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
Laura Cottatellucci is co-editor of the special issue Cooperative
communicationsin Wireless Networks for EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking. She is co-chair of RAWNET/WCN3 2009
in WiOpt and member of numerous technical program committees in
international conferences. Cottatellucci is coauthor of two books: “Smart
antennas in Europe -State of the art”, EURASIP book series on Applied
Signal Processing, Hindawi, 2005 and “RRM in Wimax: from theoretical
capacity to system simulations”, Wiley and Iste, 2008
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/cottatel.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Multi-user information theory,
- multi-user detection and
beamforming,
- analysis of large wireless systems,
- design of cellular, satellite and ad hoc networks,
- MIMO communications,
- DS/MC-CDMA, OFDM,
- crosslayer design,
- resource allocation,
- random matrix theory,
- game theory.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
-
Gaoning He, Laura Cottatellucci
and Mérouane Debbah. A waterfilling
game-theoretical
framework
for
distributed
wireless
information
flow.
EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking, vol.
2010.
-
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Laura
Cottatellucci, Lorenzo Maggi. Algorithms
for uniform optimal strategies in twoplayer zero-sum stochastic games with
perfect information. Submitted to
Operation Research Letters, Nov. 2010.
-
Laura Cottatellucci, Ralf Müller,
and Mérouane Debbah. Asynchronous
- CDMA systems with random spreading-Part I: Fundamental limits. - IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory, Bd
56, n. 4, pp. 1477 - 1497 Apr 2010.
-
Laura Cottatellucci,
Ralf
R. Müller, and Mérouane Debbah.
Asynchronous - CDMA systems with
random spreading--Part II: Design
criteria. IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory, vol. 56, n. 4, pp 1498 - 1520, Apr
2010.
-
Laura Cottatellucci and Ralf R.
Müller, CDMA systems with correlated
spatial diversity: a generalized resource
pooling result. IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory, vol. 53, no. 3, Mar
2007.
Networking and Security Dept
Marc DACIER
Email
Marc.Dacier@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 17
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Adjunct Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Ph.D, 1994, Institut National Polytechnique, Toulouse, France
l Degree of Ingénieur Civil en Informatique, 1989, University of Louvain,
Belgium
4TEACHING:
In July 2002 he joined EURECOM as a professor until April 2008 to join
Symantec Research Labs. He remains active within EURECOM as an adjunct
professor. He teaches networking and operational computing security
related lectures.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
In 1995, he worked on several projects as an external security consultant
for France Telecom in Paris. In 1996 he joined the IBM Zurich Research
Laboratory. In 1997, he became the manager of the Global Security Analysis
Lab.
In April 2008, he joined Symantec as the director of Symantec Research
Labs Europe. Since September 2009, he is a senior director in charge of
the Collaborative Advanced Research Department (CARD) within Symantec
Research Labs.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
He is mostly interested in the following research areas: attack attribution,
underground economy, trustworthy infrastructure, cloud computing,
privacy, intrusion detection, core internet security.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He has cofounded in 1998, with Kathleen Jackson from the Los Alamos
National Lab, the symposium on «Recent Advances on Intrusion Detection»
(RAID), now considered as the main conference in this area. He is still
chairing its steering committee.
He has served in more than 60 program committees of major security and
dependability conferences and is a member of the steering committee of
the «European Symposium on Research for Computer Security» (ESORICS).
He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker in major events.
He has served on the editorial board of the following journals: IEEE, TDSC,
ACM TISSEC and JIAS.
He has been actively involved in a number of European projects over the
last two decades. Among other things, he was the co-director, with Brian
Randell from Newcastle University, of the MAFTIA European Project and
the technical coordinator of the WOMBAT project.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/dacier.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Operational security
- Attack attribution
- Cloud computing
- Trustworthy Infrastructures
DISTINCTIONS
He obtained an IBM Outstanding
Technical Achievement Award for his
contribution to the business of IBM
Global Services.
In 2005, he received the IBM Faculty
Award
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
•
O. Thonnard, W. Mees, and M.
Dacier, “Addressing the attack attribution
problem using knowledge discovery and
multi-criteria fuzzy decision-making”,
Proc of the 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference
on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining, Workshop on CyberSecurity and
Intelligence Informatics, 2009.
•
V.-. Pham and M. Dacier,
“Honeypot traces forensics : the
observation viewpoint matters”, Proc. Of
NSS 2009, 3rd International Conference
on Network and System Security, 2009.
•
M. Dacier, Détection d’intrusions
: état de l’art, faiblesses et problèmes
ouverts, Chapitre 3 du livre «Sécurité des
systèmes d’information (Traité IC2, série
Réseaux et télécoms) / 2-7462-1259-5, L.
Mé et Y. Deswarte (éditeurs), pp 73-100,
2006
•
C. Leita, K. Mermoud and M.
Dacier, “ScriptGen: an automated script
generation tool for honeyd”, Proc. Of
ACSAC 2005, pp. 203-214, 2005
•
M. Dacier, Y. Deswarte and
M. Kaâniche, “Models and tools for
quantitative assessment of operational
security”, proc. Of the IFIP SEC
conference, pp. 177-186, 1996.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Jean-Luc DUGELAY
Email
Jean-Luc.Dugelay@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 41
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l He received a Ph.D.degree in Computer Science in 1992 from Rennes
University.
4TEACHING:
He is currently with the EURECOM, Multimedia Communications dept. as
a Professor.
He teaches Image and Video Processing and Coding, and Imaging for
Security Applications (Watermarking, Steganography, Biometrics, Video
surveillance and Forensics)
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 1989 to 1992, he worked for France Telecom Research, Rennes
(formerly CCETT) on 3-D Motion Estimation & Stereoscopic Television.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interest is image processing for security, safety and
forensics.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He gave several tutorials on digital watermarking (co-authored with F.
Petitcolas from Microsoft Research), biometrics (co-authored with J.-C.
Junqua from Panasonic Research) at major conferences.
Jean-Luc DUGELAY is a senior member of the IEEE. He is/was an elected
member of the IEEE Signal Processing for IMDSP, MMSP, IFS Technical
Committees. He is an elected member the EURASIP Adcom.
He was an associate editor for the IEEE-IP and the IEEE-MM Transactions,
the EURASIP Journal on ASP, the Kluwer Journal on Multimedia Tools and
Applications. He is currently the founding Editor in Chief of the EURASIP
Journal on Image and Video Processing (Hindawi).
He has been an invited speaker and/or member of the program committee
of several scientific conferences and workshops.
He was technical co-chair and organizer of the fourth workshop on
Multimedia Signal Processing (Cannes, October 2001), and co-organizer of
the workshop on Multimodal User Authentication (Santa Barbara, December
2003).
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/dugelay.en.htm
-
Image Processing and Coding,
2D/3D Facial Image Analysis,
Biometrics and Video surveillance,
Image Forensics.
DISTINCTIONS
- He was awarded the SEE 2010 Blondel
Medal for his outstanding work in
biometrics and digital watermarking.
- He is co-author (with F. Perronin and
Prof. K. Rose, UC Santa Barbara)
of a paper that received the IEEE ICIP
2003 Best Student Paper Award «A
probabilistic model of face mapping with
local transformations and its application
to person recognition»
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
He is the main editor of the book
entitled “3D Object Processing:
Compression,
Indexing
and
Watermarking” (Wiley, 2008).
•
Dugelay,
Jean-Luc;
Roche,
Stéphane;Rey,Christian;
Doërr,
Gwenaël - Still image watermarking
robust to local geometric distortions
IEEE transactions on Image
Processing-Vol15 N°9, Sept2006, pp
2831-2842
• Dantcheva, Antitza; Velardo,
Carmelo; D’angelo, Angela; Dugelay,
Jean-Luc Bag of soft biometrics for
person identification : New trends
and challenges Mutimedia Tools and
Applications, Springer, October 2010
, pp 1-39
• Wu, Haotian; Dugelay, Jean-Luc
Steganography in 3D geometries and
images by adjacent bin mapping
EURASIP Journal on Information
Security, Vol. 2009 (2009), Article ID
- 317165
Mobile Communications Dept
Petros ELIA
Email
Petros.Elia@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 32
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Petros Elia received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA in 1997.
In 2001 and 2006 he received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
4TEACHING:
He is currently Assistant Professor within the Department of Mobile
Communicationss where he teaches classes on Mobile Communicationss.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
In 1997-99 he was an engineering consultant for MIOD Detection Technologies
on signal-processing projects for Merck and Procter&Gamble. In 2006-07
he was a post-doctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego,
UCSD, and a senior researcher at FTW Vienna.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
He seeks to provide practical algorithms and mathematical machinery that
improve and analyze the speed-reliability performance and the complexity
of different communication networks.
This is motivated by the fact that, just like performance (rate and
reliability), implementation/computation complexity is a fundamental
bottleneck with exponential costs, and in need of meaningful exposition.
A recent research interest also includes developing theory, techniques and
algorithms for analyzing, designing and deploying large-scale cooperative
surveillance networks, revealing the necessary resources and methods that
render such systems useful, but also clearly and rigorously differentiating
these from the resources that render such future systems an unacceptable
intrusion on ordinary citizens.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He has given invited talks, and recently a tutorial at the Crowncom
conference 2010.
He has served as a co-chair of WNC^3 at Wiopt-2007, and has organized
sessions such as at CROWNCOM-2010 and ISCCSP-2010.
He has invited papers such as at Journal of Comm-Software-Systems (2006),
MILCOM 2006, IZS-2008, 4th IEEE ASPWCS Workshop 2009, ITA 2010, EuWIT
2010.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/elia.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
«His latest publications (2009-10)
deal with information theoretic
limits and coding in cooperative
communications,
fundamental
performance-complexity limits in
communications, MIMO decoders,
two-way relaying, isolation and
connectivity in dense networks,
queueing theory, crosslayer design,
and soft-biometrics.
DISTINCTIONS
He is a recipient of a four-year
Fulbright scholarship.
In 2006 he received the Best Research
Paper award – EE and ECE departments,
USC.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
J. Jalden and P. Elia, ``DMT Optimality
of LR-Aided Linear Decoders for a
General Class ofChannels, Lattice
Designs, and System Models’’, Trans.
IT Oct. 2010.
Petros Elia and Joakim Jalden,
«Fundamental
Rate-ReliabilityComplexity
Limits
in
Outage
Limited MIMO Communications,’’ in
proceedings ISIT 2010.
S. A. Pawar, K. R. Kumar, P. Elia, B.A.
Sethuraman and P. V. Kumar, “SpaceTime Codes Achieving the DMD
Tradeoff of the MIMO-ARQ Channel,”
Trans. IT, July 2009.
S. Kittipiyakul , P. Elia and T. Javidi,
“High-SNR Analysis of Outage-Limited
Communications of Bursty and DelayLimited Information,” Trans. IT, Feb
2009.
P. Elia, B. A. Sethuraman and P. V.
Kumar, “Perfect Space-Time Codes
for Any Number of Antennas,” Trans
IT, Nov. 2007.
P. Elia, K. R. Kumar, S. A. Pawar,
P. V. Kumar and H.F Lu, “Explicit,
Minimum-Delay Space-Time Codes
Achieving The Diversity-Multiplexing
Gain Tradeoff,” Trans IT, Sep. 2006.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Nicholas EVANS
Email
Nicholas.Evans@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 14
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l MEng (Hons) in Electronics and Computing Science, University of Wales
Swansea, 1999
l PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Wales
Swansea, 2003
4TEACHING:
From 2002-06 Nicholas Evans was a lecturer at the University of Wales
Swansea (UWS), where he taught courses in Communications, and remained
an honorary lecturer until 2009. In 2006 he moved to the Laboratoire
Informatique d’Avignon at the Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse
where he taught courses in Image Processing and Digital Communications.
He moved to EURECOM in October 2007 where he teaches courses in
Mathematical Methods for Engineers, and in Speech and Audio Processing.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
His PhD studies were sponsored by one the world’s leading mobile
telecommunications providers and he has been actively involved in a
number of collaborative research projects at local, national, European
and international levels with SMEs, multinationals and government
agencies. His current activities in acoustic echo cancellation and speech
enhancement are supported by one of the the world’s leading industrials
in embedded mobile solutions.»
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His current research interests include speaker diarization, speaker
recognition, biometric spoofing countermeasures, multimodal biometrics,
acoustic echo cancellation and speech enhancement. Over recent years he
has participated, with notable success, in the internationally competitive
Rich Transcription Evaluations in speaker diarization that are administered
by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST) in the US. He
participates in the EU FP7 «TABULA RASA» project and the joint-national
«Adaptable Ambient Living Assistant» (ALIAS) project, co-funded by the
EU and the national French Research Agency (ANR) through the Ambient
Assisted Living (AAL) programme (ref: AAL-2009-2-049)
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is a member of ISCA, EURASIP, IEEE and its signal processing society. He
serves regularly as a committee member and reviewer for several international
conferences, workshops, and journals and currently serves as an associate
editor for the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/evans.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Speaker diarization, speaker
recognition, biometric spoofing
countermeasures , multimodal
biometrics,
acoustic
echo
cancellation
and
speech
enhancement.
DISTINCTIONS
N. Evans is the co-author (with R.
Vera Rodriguez, R. P. Lewis and J. S.
D. Mason) of a paper that received
the Best Student Paper Award at the
4th Summer School for Advanced
Studies on Biometrics for Secure
Authentication: New Technologies and
Embedded Systems, 2007.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Bozonnet, Simon; Evans, Nicholas W
D; Anguera, X; Vinyals, O; Friedland,
G; Fredouille, Corinne System output
combination for improved speaker
diarization Interspeech 2010, September
26-30, Makuhari, Japan
- Bozonnet, Simon; Evans, Nicholas W
D; Fredouille, Corinne The LIA-Eurecom
RT’09 speaker diarization system :
enhancements in speaker modelling and
cluster purification ICASSP 2010, 35th
International Conference on Acoustics,
Speech, and Signal Processing, March 1419, 2010, Dallas, Texas, USA , pp 49584961
- Mossi, Moctar; Yemdji, Christelle;
Evans, Nicholas W D; Hergoltz, C;
Beaugeant, Christophe; Degry, P New
models for characterizing mobile terminal
loudspeaker distortions IWAENC 2010,
International Workshop on Acoustic Echo
and Noise Control, August 30-September
2nd, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Yemdji, Christelle; Mossi, Moctar; Evans,
Nicholas W D; Beaugeant, Christophe
Low delay filtering for joint noise
reduction and residual echo suppression
IWAENC 2010, International Workshop on
Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, August
30-September 2nd, 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mobile Communications Dept
David GESBERT
Email
David.Gesbert@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 97
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l He obtained a Ph.D degree from ENST, France, in 1997
l From April 1997 to October 1998, he has been postdoctoral student at
the Smart Antenna Research Group of the Information Systems Laboratory,
Stanford University.
4TEACHING:
While an adjunct professor at the University of Oslo, and now as a Professor
at the Mobile Communicationss Laboratory of EURECOM, David Gesbert has
been teaching in the field of statistical signal processing, advanced topics
for wireless communications, information theory and mobile networking.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 1993 to 1997, he was with France Telecom Research, Paris, where
he was involved in the development and study of receiver algorithms for
digital radio communications systems. After a visit at Stanford University,
he took part in end of 1998 in the founding team of Iospan Wireless Inc,
San Jose, Ca. (initially known as Gigabit Wireless), a startup company
pioneering the first high-speed wireless internet access networks using
MIMO and OFDM. The technology was acquired by Intel in 2002 and is now
featured as part of the WiMax 802.16 standard.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
David Gesbert heads EURECOM’s Communication Theory Group. His
research activities are in the area of theory and design of communication
systems , multi-user MIMO systems, cooperative transmission . At the MAC
layer focus is on scheduling algorithms with full and partial channel state
information. Finally, at the network level, major interest is on distributed
multi-cell scheduling and resource allocation, self-organizing wireless
networks.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He co-edited five special issues of journals in wireless communications.
He served two terms in the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications
Technical Committee. He is a member of the French CNRS Expert Committee
for «Networks». He’s an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications and the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and
Networking. He was co-organizer and technical chair of several research
symposia. D. Gesbert is a IEEE Fellow.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/gesbert.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Adaptive transmission techniques,
physical and link layer algorithms,
aimed at high-spectrum-efficiency*
digital communications.
DISTINCTIONS
- Has received the Fellow distinction
from IEEE (2011)
- He authored or co-authored papers
winning the 2004 IEEE Best Tutorial
Paper
Award
(Communications
Society) for a 2003 JSAC paper on
MIMO systems, 2005 Best Paper (Young
Author) Award for Signal Proc. Society
journals, and the Best Paper Award for
the 2004 ACM MSWiM workshop
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• D. Gesbert, M. Kountouris, “Joint
Power Control and User Scheduling
in Multicell Wireless Networks:
Capacity Scaling Laws <http://www.
eurecom.fr/%7Egesbert/papers/
transIT_submission_scalinglaws.
pdf>”, to appear in IEEE Trans. On
Information Theory, 2010.
• D. Gesbert, S. Hanly, H. Huang, S.
Shamai, O. Simeone, W. Yu, “Multicell MIMO cooperative networks: A
new look at interference <http://
w w w. e u r e c o m . f r / % 7 E g e s b e r t /
papers/multicellMIMO_jsactutorial.
pdf>”,in IEEE Journal on Selected
Areas in Communications, Dec 2010.
•
R.
Zakhour,
D.
Gesbert,
“Distributed
multicell
MIMO
precoding using the layered virtual
SINR
framework
<http://www.
eurecom.fr/%7Egesbert/papers/
TW09_Randa.pdf>”. To appear in
the IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, 2010.
Mobile Communications Dept
Jérôme HÄRRI
Email
Jerome.Haerri@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 34
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l He received a M.Sc. degree and a Dr. ès sc. degree in telecommunication
from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in
2002 and 2007 respectively.
4TEACHING:
Between 2008 and 2010, he taught a master-level class on Traffic
Telematics and ITS at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Since
joining EURECOM, he teaches classes in the field of vehicular wireless
communication and networking.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Between 2002 and 2003, he was a Guest Researcher at the National
Institute of Technologies (NIST), Washington DC, USA.
He was a visiting researcher at the Network Research Lab (NRL) at the
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in Summer 2006.
He led the Traffic Telematics Junior Research Group at the Institute of
Telematics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
between 2007 and 2010.
He is also active in collaborative research projects with industry in the
field of Wireless Vehicular Networks and ITS.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Vehicular Mobility (modeling and management)
• Inter-vehicular communication (vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to
infrastructure)
• Heterogeneous communication mechanisms
• Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He was Co-Chair of the special session on traffic telematics at IEEE PIMRC’09
and served as Demo Chair and TPC Co-chair of the IEEE Conference on Wireless
Vehicular Communications (WiVeC) 2008 and 2010 respectively. He is member
of the IEEE and the ACM.
He is also involved into the standardization activities of the CAR 2 CAR
Communication Consortium on aspects of channel congestion control as well
as simulation methodologies.
He actively serves as a reviewer of technical conferences, magazine or journals
including IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IEEE Vehicular Networking
Conference, ACM VANET, IEEE WiVeC, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Transaction of Mobile
Computing or Transactions on Vehicular Technologies
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/haerri.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
• Mobility and context prediction
• Application-based cooperative
Congestion control
• Connectivity and graph properties
of vehicular networks
• Infrastructure dimensioning and
placement
• Benefit of vehicular communication
and ITS on traffic efficiency and
carbon footprint
DISTINCTIONS
He received the Best Technical Paper
Award of the VTC’ Fall 2005, 62nd
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
Dallas, USA with Prof. Christian Bonnet
for” A Lower Bound for Vehicles’
Trajectory Duration”.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
•
Miguel
Sepulcre,
Javier
Gozalvez,
Jérôme
Härri
and
Hannes
Hartenstein,
“Contextual
Communications Congestion Control
for Cooperative Vehicular Networks”,
IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing,
2010.
•
Jérôme
Härri,
“Vehicular
Mobility Modeling for VANET”, in
book “VANET: Vehicular Applications
and Inter-Networking Technologies”,
Hannes Hartenstein and Ken Laberteaux
(Eds), Wiley, 2010.
•
Jens Mittag, Florian Thomas,
Jérôme Härri, Hannes Hartenstein , “A
Comparison of Single- and Multi-hop
Beaconing in VANETs”, in Proc. of the
sixth ACM International Workshop on
Vehicular Ad Hoc Networking (VANET),
Pages 69-78, Bejing, China, September
2009.
•
Marco Fiore, Jérôme Härri ,
“The networking shape of vehicular
mobility”, Proc. of the 9th ACM
International Symposium on Mobile
Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
(MobiHoc’08), pp. 261-271, Hong Kong,
SAR China, May 2008.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Benoit HUET
Email
Benoit.Huet@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 79
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Benoit Huet received his BSc degree in computer science and engineering
from the Ecole Superieure de Technologie Electrique (Groupe ESIEE,
France) in 1992.
In 1993, he was awarded the MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence from
the University of Westminster (UK) with distinction, where he then spent
two years working as a research and teaching assistant. He received his
DPhil degree in Computer Science from the University of York (UK) for his
research on the topic of object recognition from large databases.
4TEACHING:
His current teaching activity includes the following courses : Multimedia
Technologies, Advanced Topic in Multimedia and Intelligent Systems. His
teaching experience also includes the following topics: Neural Networks,
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
B. Huet is actively involved in many collaborative research projects with
industrial as well as academic institution
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests include computer vision, large scale multimedia
data mining and indexing (still and/or moving images), content-based
retrieval, semantic
labeling and annotation of multimedia content, multimodal fusion, and
pattern recognition.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He has been in the program committees of the major conferences of the
field of multimedia processing.
He serves regularly as a technical reviewer of several renowned
international conferences and journals, such as ACM Multimedia and IEEE
transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
He is Associate Editor for the journal Multimedia Tools and Application
(Springer).
He is a member of the following societies: ACM, IEEE Computer Society. He
is co-chairing the IEEE MultiMedia Technical Committee on Visual Analysis
and Content Management (VAIG) and vice-chair of the IAPR Technical
Committee 14 Signal Analysis for Machine Intelligence
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/huet.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Large-scale Multimedia data mining,
Multimodal Fusion, Semantic labeling
and annotation of multimedia
content, content-based retrieval,
and indexing (still and/or moving
images), Computer vision and Pattern
recognition
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Xueliang Liu and Benoit Huet - Concept
Detector Refinement Using Social
Videos
ACM International Workshop on VeryLarge-Scale Multimedia Corpus, Mining
and Retrieval (VLS-MCMR’10) - MM ‘10:
ACM Multimedia Conference October
29, 2010 Firenze, Italy
Paleari, Marco; Huet, Benoit; Chellali,
Ryad - «Towards multimodal emotion
recognition : A new approach» CIVR
2010, ACM International Conference
on Image and Video Retrieval, July 5-7,
Xi’an, China , pp 174-181
Eric Galmar and Benoit Huet «Analysis of vector space model and
spatiotemporal segmentation for video
indexing and retrieval» - CIVR 2007,
ACM International Conference on
Image and Video Retrieved, July 9-11
2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Huet, Benoit; Smeaton, Alan F.; MayerPatel, Ketan; Avrithis, Yannis - Advances
in Multimedia Modeling -Springer :
Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Subseries: Information Systems and
Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and
HCI , Vol. 5371, ISBN: 978-3-540-92891-1
Bernard Mérialdo and Benoit Huet
“Automatic video summarization”
Chapter
of
«Interactive
Video,
Algorithms
and Technologies by Hammoud», Riad
(Ed.), 2006, XVI, 250 p, ISBN: 3-54033214-6 , pp 27-41
Mobile Communications Dept
Florian KALTENBERGER
Email
Florian.Kaltenberger@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 86
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l In 2007 he obtained a Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Technical
Mathematics from Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
l In 2002 he obtained a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical
Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
4TEACHING:
At EURECOM, he currently teaches graduate-level courses on Radio
Engineering.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 2003 until 2007 Florian Kaltenberger has been working as a
junior research engineer at the Austrian Research Centers (ARC) on the
development of a real-time radio channel emulator. He has also been a
partner in several collaborative projects with industry on the topics of
receiver design for UMTS HSDPA and LTE.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests include signal processing for wireless communications,
MIMO communication systems, receiver design and implementation, MIMO
channel modeling and simulation, and hardware implementation issues.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
Florian Kaltenberger is currently EURECOM project leader and workpackage leader for the FP7 project SAMURAI.
He is a member of the Network of Excellence in Wireless Communication
(Newcom++) and the COST Action 2100 on Pervasive Mobile and Ambient
Wireless Communications.
He is also a member of the IEEE and serves as a reviewer for several
conferences and journals.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/kaltenbe.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Multi-user MIMO and relaying
techniques and their implementation
on the OpenAirInterface.org platform,
interference
management
and
mitigation, physical layer abstraction
for large-scale system simulations.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Oestges, Claude; Czink, Nicolai;
Bandemer,
Bernd;
Castiglione,
Paolo;
Kaltenberger,
Florian;
Paulraj, Arogyaswami - Experimental
characterization and modeling of
outdoor-to-indoor and indoor-to-indoor
distributed channels IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology, Vol.59, N°5,
June 2010 , pp 2253-2265
Florian Kaltenberger, Rizwan Ghaffar,
Raymond Knopp, Hicham Anouar,
Christian
Bonnet,
«Design
and
Implementation of a Single-frequency
Mesh Network using OpenAirInterface»,
EURASIP
Journal
on
Wireless
Communications and Networking, vol.
2010, Article ID 719523, 16 pages,
2010. doi:10.1155/2010/719523.
Florian
Kaltenberger,
Marios
Kountouris, David Gesbert, Raymond
Knopp, «On the trade-off between
feedback and capacity in measured MUMIMO channels», IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 9,
pp. 4866-4875, Sept. 2009.
-
F. Kaltenberger, T. Zemen, and
C.W. Ueberhuber, «Low-complexity
geometry
based
MIMO
channel
simulation», EURASIP Journal on
Advances in Signal Processing, Special
Issue on Numerical Linear Algebra in
Signal Processing Applications, vol.
2007, Article ID 95281, 17 pages, 2007.
doi:10.1155/2007/95281.
Mobile Communications Dept
Raymond KNOPP
Email
Raymond.Knopp@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 54
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l He received a B.Eng. (Honours) and a M.Eng. degrees in electrical
engineering from McGill University ( http://www.ece.mcgill.ca ), Montreal,
Canada, in 1992 and 1993, respectively.
l In 1997, received a PhD degree (docteur ès sciences) in communication
systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL,
http://www.epfl.ch ).
4TEACHING:
At EURECOM, R. Knopp teaches graduate-level courses in Digital
Communication Theory and Signal Processing Technologies. He also
participates in continuing education programs for industry, on behalf
of EURECOM, on specific topics of interest in state-of-the-art wireless
communication systems.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
R. Knopp is very actively involved in many collaborative research projects
with industry in the area of wireless communication systems.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
R. Knopp is currently head of the Advanced Wireless Technologies Group
within the mobile communications department. This group specializes
in real-time platform architectures and experimentation in wireless
communication systems, with the goal of providing feasibility studies for
state-of-the-art theoretical advances in wireless communications.
The focus of the group covers access-layer techniques (PHY/MAC layers)
applicable to evolving cellular technologies (LTE,LTE-Advanced) and
rapidly-deployable mesh/adhoc networks. The group is extremely active
in European and national Framework programs and technically coordinates
OpenAirInterface.org, an open-source initiative created by EURECOM which
distributes the developments of the group to the public-domain.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
R. Knopp is an IEEE Member and was special guest editor for the IEEE
Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Aug. 2004, on the topic of
fundamental performance limits of wireless sensor networks. He has been
on the technical program committee of several major IEEE conferences.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/knopp.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Specific subjects investigated by
the group include coding, multipleaccess and two-way transmission
techniques in radio communications,
software radio architectures and
implementation technology, and
physical-layer
abstraction
and
emulation architectures for radio
networks.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- T.Tabet, R.Knopp, «Cross-layer
based analysis of multi-hop wireless
networks
<http://vega.c.oka-pu.
ac.jp/cgi-bin/sakaki/abstractj.
cgi?NUMBER=7103>»,
IEEE Trans. Commun., vol.58, no.7,
pp.2067-2076, 2010/07.
- Caire, G.; Muller, R.R.; Knopp, R.,
«Hard Fairness Versus Proportional
Fairness in Wireless Communications:
The Single-Cell Case,»
/Information
Theory,
IEEE
Transactions on/ , vol.53, no.4,
pp.1366-1385, April 2007
Knopp,
R.,
Humblet,
P.A.,
«Information capacity and power
control in single-cell multiuser
communications,» IEEE International
Conference on Communications, ICC
95 Seattle, pp. 331-335.
- Knopp, R. Humblet, P.A., «On
Coding for Block-Fading Channels,»
Information Theory, IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory, vol. 46, no. 1,
Jan. 2000, pp. 189-205.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Bernard MERIALDO
Email
Bernard.Merialdo@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 29
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Professor, Department Head 4 EDUCATION :
l 1975, he was admitted in the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (S75).
l 1979, he received a PhD in Computer Science from Paris 6 University for
his work on Automated Theorem Proving.
l 1992, he was awarded the «Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches» from
Paris 7 University for his research on probabilistic language modeling.
4TEACHING:
In 1980-1981, he taught at the Faculty of Sciences in Rabat (Morocco).
Since joigning EURECOM Multimedia Dept, in 1992, he teaches Intelligent
Systems and Multimedia Information Retrieval. He is also responsible
for the Web Engineering track and the Master of Science programme on
Multimedia Information Technologies.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
In 1981, he joined the IBM France Scientific Center in Paris, where he
led several research projects on Natural Language Processing and Speech
Recognition using probabilistic models. There he developed PARSYFAL, the
first French very large vocabulary speech recognition system. From 1988
to 1990, he was a Visiting Scientist in the IBM T.J Watson Research Center
in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. (USA)
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interest is the analysis, processing, indexing and filtering of
Multimedia information to solve user-related tasks. His research covers a
whole range of problems, from content extraction based on recognition
techniques, content understanding based on parsing, multimedia content
description languages (MPEG7), similarity computation for applications
such as information retrieval, and user personalization and user interaction
for the construction of applications. He has done several projects on video
segmentation and classification, summarization, classification, object
tracking, 2D and 3D statistical modeling, personalization. He is interested
in applications such as Multimedia Information searching, filtering and
data mining.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He participates in numerous conference program committees. He is part
of the organizing committee for the CBMI workshop. He was editor for
the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and organizer of the ACM Multimedia
conference in 2002. He often acts as an expert and reviewer for French and
European research programs. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/merialdo.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Object detection, recognition and
tracking
- Video analysis, segmentation and
classification
- Video summarization
- Multimedia statistical modeling
DISTINCTIONS
- IBM Technical Achievement Award
- IBM Innovation Award
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Li, Yingbo; Mérialdo, Bernard
VERT : automatic evaluation of video
summaries - ACMMM’10, ACM Multimedia
2010, October 25-29, 2010, Firenze, Italy
Mérialdo, Bernard
- Automatic
construction of multimedia summaries
CBMI 2010, 8th International Workshop
on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing,
June 23-25, 2010, Grenoble, France
Dumont, Emilie; Merialdo, Bernard
Rushes
video
summarization
and
evaluation - Multimedia Tools and
Applications, Springer, Vol.48, N°1, May
2010 , pp 51-68
Wang, Feng; Mérialdo, Bernard Weighting informativeness of bag-ofvisual-words by Kernel optimization for
video concept detection - VLS-MCMR’10,
International Workshop on Very-LargeScale Multimedia Corpus, Mining and
Retrieval, 25-29 October 2010, Florence,
Italy
Deigmöller,
J;
Fernàndez,Gabriel;
Kriechbaum, A; López, Alejandro;
Mérialdo, Bernard; Neuschmied, Helmut;
Pinyol Margalef, F; Trichet, Rémi; Wolf,
Patrick; Salgado, Roger; Milagaia,
Fernando - Active objects in interactive
mobile TV - MMM 2009, 15th International
MultiMedia
Modeling
Conference,
January 7-9, 2009, Sophia Antipolis,
Networking and Security Dept
Pietro MICHIARDI
Email
Piero.Michiardi@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 45
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l 2000 - M.S in Communication Systems, EURECOM (Double Degree
program, EU Erasmus grant)
l 2001 - M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
l 2004 - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Telecom Paris Tech
4TEACHING:
He teaches three courses that focus on the design and the analysis of large
scale distributed systems.
*Web Technologies* focuses on the fundamental ingredients of modern
web applications and services. The course features modern data store
technologies and parallel processing frameworks.
*Algorithm Design* provides a sound foundation concerning the design
and analysis of algorithms, including approximation and randomization
techniques.
*Game Theory* focuses on an introduction to game theory and its
algorithmic aspects. The course features several in-class exercises and
explores selected issues at the forefront of research explorations in
networked distributed systems.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
He was the co-founder of CertiMate, a startup company in the secure
communications business.
He is also the scientific advisor for PlayAdz.com, a startup company in the
Mobile Advertisement business.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests are on system, algorithmic, and performance
evaluation aspects of computer networks and distributed systems.
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Distributed Data Store Systems
- Large-scale Analytics Applications
- Peer-to-peer applications
DISTINCTIONS
- Best Student Paper Award in the
Workshop on Optimization in Wireless
Networks (WiOpt) March 3-5,2003,
Sophia Antipolis
« Game Theoretical Analysis of
Cooperation Enforcement in MANET »
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Barbuzzi, Antonio; Michiardi, Pietro;
Biersack, Ernst W; Boggia, Gennaro,
«Parallel bulk Insertion for large-scale
analytics applications», ACM LADIS
2010
- Smaragdakis, Georgios; Laoutaris,
Nikolaos; Michiardi, Pietro; Bestavros,
Azer; Byers,John W.; Roussopoulos,
Mema, «Distributed network formation
for n-way broadcast applications», IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, 2010
- Dell amico, Matteo; Michiardi, Pietro;
Roudier, Yves, «Measuring password
strength: an empirical analysis», In
Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2010
Pietro Michiardi has led the design and implementation of a small-scale
data-center, that is used for both research and teaching activities.
- Laoutaris, Nikolaos; Carra, Damiano;
Michiardi, Pietro, «Uplink Allocation
Beyond Choke/Unchoke: or Why Divide
Does Not Always Conquer Best», ACM
SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2008
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Legout, Arnaud;
Urvoy-keller,
Guillaume;Michiardi, Pietro, «Rarest
first and choke algorithms are enough»,
ACM SIGCOMM/USENIX IMC 2006
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/michiard.en.htm
Networking and Security Dept
Refik MOLVA
Email
Refik.Molva@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 12
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor, Department head
4 EDUCATION :
l Refik Molva has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Paul Sabatier
University in Toulouse (1986) and a B.Sc. in Computer Science (1981) from
Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.
4TEACHING:
He taught several courses on network security, applied cryptography,
protocols and networking at EURECOM.
He currently is responsible for the Security track and the Master of Science
in Communications and Computer Security at EURECOM.
He also taught security and applied cryptography courses at the doctoral
school on communications and in the postgraduate program at EPFL, in the
networking and multimedia department of Telecom Bretagne.
He held several continued education sessions on network security with
industrial companies such as IBM, HP and as part of the Cap-sesa Institut
professional education seminars.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Prior to joining EURECOM, he worked from 1987 till 1992 as a Research Staff
Member in the Zurich Research Laboratory of IBM where, as part of the core
team that thrusted network and system security research, he was one of
the key designers of the KryptoKnight security system. He also worked as a
consultant in network security in the IBM Consulting Group in 1997.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His major interests are applied cryptography and design of security
protocols and privacy-preserving mechanisms for networks and distributed
systems. He has been responsible for several research projects on
multicast key management and authentication, mobile network security,
anonymity, intrusion detection, right management, and privacy in on-line
social networks. Beside security, he worked on distributed multimedia
applications over high speed networks and on network interconnection.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He sat in several expert committees for the European Commission and French
National organisations such as RNRT, ACI Sécurité, AERES and in scientific
committees for various academic institutions.
He has been the PC chair for IEEE ICC Security Symposium, Securecomm, the
general chair for ESORICS and RAID, and PC chair for several workshops as well as
a program committee member numerous conferences in security and networking
including ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ICDCS, ACM ASIA CCS,
and ESORICS. He is a member of the editorial board for Computer Networks,
Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journals.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/molva.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Design and analysis of security mechanisms
and cryptographic protocols for:
- self-organizing systems,
- cloud computing and on-line social
networks
- trust management
- privacy-preserving mechanisms.
DISTINCTIONS
• Best Student Paper Award with
Alessandro Sorniotti, IFIP SEC 2009, “A
provably secure secret handshake with
dynamic controlled matching”
• Runners-up Awards for IEEE ICWS
2006 Refik Molva, Frédéric Montagut
“Augmenting Web Services Composition
with Transactional Requirements”
• Best Student Paper Award with Pietro
Michiardi, WiOpt’03: Modeling and
Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and
Wireless Networks (2003)
• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement
Award (1989)
• IBM Research Division Award (1988)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Erik-Oliver Blass, Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui,
Refik Molva. Tracker: security and privacy
for RFID-based supply chains.NDSS’11,
18th Annual Network and Distributed
System Security Symposium.
Leucio Antonio Cutillo, Refik Molva,
Thorsten
Strufe.
Safebook
:
a
privacypreserving online social network
leveraging on real-life trust. IEEE
Communications Magazine, Vol 47,
N°12,December 2009 , pp 94-101.
Walid Bagga, Refik Molva. Policy-Based
Cryptography and Applications. Financial
Cryptography 2005, Dominica, March
2005.
Pietro Michiardi and Refik Molva. Analysis
of Coalition Formation and Cooperation
Strategies in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Ad
hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 3, Issue 2 Ad
Hoc Networking for Pervasive Systems,
March 2005, pp193-219.
Refik Molva and Alain Pannetrat. Scalable
Multicast Security with Dynamic Recipient
Groups. ACM Transactions on Information
and System Security, 3, August 2000.
Mobile Communications Dept
Navid NIKAEIN
Email
Navic.Nikaein@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 06
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 11
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l In 2003, he obtained a PhD degree in communication systems from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).
l In 2000, a M.Sc. degree in networking from Nice Sophia-Antipolis
university.
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
- Joint latency and energy
reduction for M2M communications
- Topology control and clustering
for adhoc/mesh networks
Experimental
platform
development
and
wireless
networking experimentations
4TEACHING:
At EURECOM, he teaches graduate-level courses in: Advanced wireless
networking and protocol design, Mobile Applications and Services: design
and development.
He participates in continuing education programs for industry on specific
topics of interest in wireless networking and mobile applications.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
- Leading embedded system design and radio integration teams at 3Roam,
an innovative startup in Sophia-Antipolis, France, developing an advanced
backhaul platform for high speed all-IP wireless networking.
- Involved/coordinated National and European collaborative research
projects and promote technology transfer from academia towards industry.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Machine-to-machine communication and Internet-of-Things
- Rapidly deployable networks in Public safety applications
- Layer 2/3 protocol design for ad-hoc/mesh network topologies
- Scheduling algorithms in LTE/LTE-A/mesh for mixed machine and human
data traffic patterns
- Large-scale wireless networks emulation platforms for cellular (LTE/
LTE-A) and adhoc mesh networks (openairinterface.org)
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
- Co-organizer, session chairman, and technical program committee
member of several conferences.
- Technical reviewer for IEEE Communication, IEEE-ICON, IEEE-ICNP,
Elsevier COMNET, IJECE, WiOpt.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/nikaeinn.en.htm
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- CrossTalk: Cross-layer decision
support
based
on
global
knowledge, R. Winter, J. H.
Schiller, N. Nikaein, C. Bonnet,
IEEE Communications magazine,
January 2006 Volume 44 N°1 , pp
93-99
- Topology management for
improving routing and network
performances in mobile ad hoc
networks, N. Nikaein, C. Bonnet,
MONET, Volume 9 N°6, December
2004 , pp 583-594
- 2LQoS– two-layered qualityof-service model for routing
in mobile ad hoc networks, N.
Nikaein, C. Bonnet, J. Moret. I.A.
Rai, SCI’2002, 2002, Orlando, USA.
- DDR-Distributed dynamic routing
algorithm for mobile ad hoc
networks, N. Nikaein, H. Labiod,
C. Bonnet, MobiHoc, 1st, August
2000, Boston, USA , pp 19-27
Networking and Security Dept
Yves ROUDIER
Email
Yves.Roudier@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 18
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l PhD in Computer Science, 1996, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis,
France.
l M.Sc in Computer Science, 1993, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis,
France
4TEACHING:
Yves Roudier is currently teaching Distributed Software
and Communications Security at EURECOM. He also
Technologies, Java Programming, Network Security,
Programming and Logic Programming at EURECOM or at
Nice - Sophia Antipolis from 1993 to 2005.
and Middleware,
taught Network
Object-Oriented
the University of
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Yves Roudier is actively involved in several national and international
research projects on computer and network security in collaboration with
industrial partners.
He is also involved in the standardization activities of the Car2Car
Communication Consortium about security as well as in the ETSI ITS WG5.
From 1997 to 1998, he worked as a Japan Science and Technology Agency
fellow at the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) research institute in
Tsukuba, Japan.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Security in automotive systems (intra- and inter-vehicular)
- P2P storage security
- Secure middleware and SOA, mobile code security
- Security of ubiquitous computing and ad-hoc communications trusted
operating systems, smart cards
- Aspect-oriented and reflective programming/design and security
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
- PC co-chair for SARSSI 2010 and SETOP 2009
- Publicity chair for ESORICS 2004 and RAID 2004
- Program committee member for more than 20 international conferences
and workshops
- Member of the OFTA technical committee on Ubiquitous Computing (2004-2007)
- External invited expert for the Sentinels program (Dutch Technology
Foundation STW agency - 2004), and the French ANR Blanc (2009), PREDIT VTT
(2008), Future Networks and Services (2009), SETIN (2006), ARASSIA (2005)
programs
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/roudier.en.htm
- Security of automotive on-board
networks
- Service Oriented Architectures and
Security
- Secure P2P data backup and storage
DISTINCTIONS
- Best Paper Award with Nouha
Oualha, COPS’09 / WETICE: “A Game
Theoretical Approach in Securing P2P
Storage against Whitewashers” (2009)
- Best Paper Award with Slim Trabelsi
and JC Pazzaglia, ECOWS’06: “Secure
Web Service Discovery: Overcoming
Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing”
(2006)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Apvrille, L.; El Khayari, R.; Henniger,
O.; Roudier, Y.; Schweppe, H.; Seudié,
H.; Weyl, B.; Wolf, M.; “Secure
Automotive
On-Board
Electronics
Network Architecture”, FISITA’2010,
World Automotive Congress, Budapest,
Hungary, 30 May-4 June 2010.
- Dell amico, M.; Michiardi, P.;
Roudier, Y.; “Password Strength : an
Empirical Analysis”, INFOCOM’2010,
29th
Conference
on
Computer
Communications, San Diego, CA, USA ,
March 14-19, 2010.
- Oualha, N.; Önen, M.; Roudier, Y.; “A
Security Protocol for Self-Organizing
Data Storage”, IFIP SEC’2008 (23rd
International
Information
Security
Conference), Milan, Italy, September
8-10, 2008.
- Bussard, L.; Roudier, Y.; Molva, R.;
“Untraceable Secret Credentials: Trust
Establishment with Privacy”, PerSec’2004
(First IEEE International Workshop on
Pervasive Computing and Communication
Security), Orlando, Florida, March 14,
2004.
- Molva, R.; Roudier, Y.; “A Distributed
Access Control Model for Java”,
ESORICS’2000 (6th European Symposium
On Research In Computer Security),
Toulouse, France, October 4th-6th, 2000.
Mobile Communications Dept
Dirk SLOCK
Email
Dirk.Slock@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 06
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Dirk T.M. Slock received an engineering degree from the University of
Gent, Belgium in 1982. In 1984 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship
for Stanford University USA, where he received the MS in Electrical
Engineering, MS in Statistics, and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1986,
1989 and 1989 respectively.
While at Stanford, he developed new fast recursive least-squares (RLS)
algorithms for adaptive filtering.
4TEACHING:
At EURECOM, he teaches statistical signal processing and signal processing
techniques for wireless and wireline communications
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
In 1989-91, he was a member of the research staff at the Philips Research
Laboratory Belgium;
In 2000, he cofounded SigTone, a start-up developing music signal
processing products.
He has been active as a consultant on xDSL, DVB-T and 3G wireless systems.
In France, he has had direct research contracts with Orange Labs, Infineon,
NXP, STEricsson.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests include DSP for Mobile Communications (antenna
arrays for (semi-blind) equalization/interference cancellation and spatial
division multiple access, space-time processing and coding, channel
estimation) and adaptation techniques for audio processing
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is an associate editor for the IEEE-SP Signal Processing Letters and the
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.
He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee
on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking.»
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/slock.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
Transmitter and receiver design
for 4G systems (LTE-A), with multiple
antennas / users / cells, relaying;
capacity and diversity analysis,
interference management, cognitive
radio, localization.
- Audio signal processing.
DISTINCTIONS
- In January 2006, he was elected IEEE
FELLOW «for contributions to adaptive
filtering and signal processing for
wireless communications»
- He received one best journal paper
award from the IEEE-SP and one from
EURASIP in 1992. He is the coauthor
of two IEEE Globecom 98 and one
IEEE SPAWC 2005 best student paper
awards
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Slock, Dirk T M;Medles, Abdelkader
Blind and semiblind MIMO channel
estimation
Chapter 14 of «Space-Time Wireless
Systems, From Array Processing to MIMO
Communications», Cambridge University
press, ISBN: 052185105X , pp 279-301
Slock, Dirk T M
Signal processing challenges for wireless
communications
ISCCSP’2004, 1st IEEE International
Symposium on Control, Communications
and Signal Processing, 21-24 March
2004, Hammamet, Tunisia , pp 881 - 892
(EURECOM Ref: 1365)
Medles, Abdelkade r; Slock, Dirk T M
Achieving the optimal diversity-vsmultiplexing tradeoff for MIMO flat
channels with QAM space-time spreading
and DFE equalization
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
Volume 52 N°12, December 2006
Mobiles Communication Dept
Thrasyvoulos SPYROPOULOS
Email
Thrasyvoulos.Spyropoulos@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 89
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National
Technical University of Athens, Greece (2000)
l PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California,
Unites States
4TEACHING:
His teaching activities are in the areas of Network Science, Performance
Analysis, and Peer-to-Peer Mobile Networks.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
is very actively involved in many collaborative research projects with
industry in the area of mobile networks.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
His general interests revolve around the application of different
mathematical tools and/or cross-disciplinary approaches to solve or
better understand difficult networking problems. The analytical tools
used include stochastic modeling, transient analysis of random walks,
fluid approximations and mean-field analysis, statistical learning theory,
complex network analysis, and graph theory, while the areas of application
are Delay Tolerant Networks, Mobility Modeling, Intelligent Transportation
Systems, Social Networks, and Traffic Classification.
His recent research efforts include: (i) the study of macroscopic (long term)
properties of human and vehicular mobility, and their links to social network
analysis, (ii) performance analysis frameworks for distributed optimization
and distributed estimation over mobile peer-to-peer networks, and (iii)
traffic classification using flow data.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is a member of the IEEE and ACM associations. He has served in the
Technical Program Committee of major IEEE and ACM conference (WOWMOM,
SECON, INFOCOM, MOBIHOC, and others), and is regular reviewer for
Transactions on Networking and Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has
also been the program co-chair for the IFIP International Workshop on SelfOrganizing Systems 2009
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/spyropou.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
+ Analytical Tools for Networks
+ Mobility Modeling
+ Delay Tolerant Networks
+ Intelligent Transportation Systems
+ Social Networks
+ Traffic Classification
DISTINCTIONS
- His is the recipient of the best paper
award for the IEEE conference on
Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and
Networks, for the paper titled “Optimal
Buffer Management Policies in Delay
Tolerant Networks”, co-authored with
Chadi Barakat and Amir Krifa.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Theus
Hossmann,
Thrasyvoulos
Spyropoulos, and Franck Legendre, “Know
Thy Neighbor: Towards Optimal Mapping
of Contacts to Social Graphs for DTN
Routing,” in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM
2010.
Wei-Jen Hsu, Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos,
Konstantinos
Psounis,
and
Ahmed
Helmy, «Modeling Spatial and Temporal
Dependencies of User Mobility in Wireless
Mobile Networks,» ACM/IEEE Transactions
on Networking, Vol.17, No. 5, Oct. 2009.
Thrasyvoulos
Spyropoulos,
Thierry
Turletti, and Katia Obrazcka, “Routing
in Delay Tolerant Networks Comprising
Heterogeneous Populations of Nodes”,
IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing,
Vol. 8, No. 8, Aug. 2009.
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Konstantinos
Psounis, and Cauligi Raghavendra,
“Efficient Routing in Intermittently
Connected Mobile Networks: The Multicopy Case,” in ACM/IEEE Transactions on
Networking, Feb. 2008.
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Konstantinos
Psounis, and Cauligi Raghavendra,
“Performance Analysis of MobilityAssisted Routing,” in Proceedings of ACM
MOBIHOC 2006.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Raphaël TRONCY
Email
Raphael.Troncy@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 42
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l Research Fellow in the National Research Institute for Mathematics and
Computer Science (CWI), 2006-2009, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
l ERCIM Fellow in the National Research Council (CNR), 2005, Pisa (Italy)
and in the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer
Science (CWI), 2006, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
l Ph.D. in Computer Science, Systems and Communications, 2004,
University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France), CIFRE between INA and INRIA
4TEACHING:
He is currently Assistant Professor within the Multimedia Communications
Department where he teaches classes on «Human-computer interaction
for the Web» and on «Semantic Web technologies». Previously, he taught
undergraduate courses on programming introduction in the University
René Descartes – Paris 5 and has been a guest lecturer for graduate
courses in knowledge-based media systems and multimedia semantics for
the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), the University of Glasgow
(UK), the University Polytechnic of Madrid (Spain) and the University of
Cali (Colombia).
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 2000 till 2004, he worked for the National Institute of Audio-visual
(INA) in Paris where he did his PhD with INRIA funded by a CIFRE fellowship
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Raphaël Troncy is an expert in audio visual metadata and in combining
existing metadata standards (such as MPEG-7) with current Semantic Web
technologies. He works also closely with the IPTC standardization body and
the European Broadcasting Union on the relationship between the News
Architecture and the Semantic Web technologies.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
. He is the W3C Advisory Committee Representative for the member
Institut Telecom / EURECOM
- He is founder and co-chair of the W3C Media Fragments Working Group
and of the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group
. He is an active member of the W3C Media Annotations Working Group
and of the W3C Social Web Incubator Group
. He served as a technical reviewer of more than 35 international
conferences and journals and has organized around 10 workshops
. He is an expert of the European Commission under the 7th ICT Framework
Programme and of the French National Research Agency (ANR)
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/troncy.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
His research interest include Semantic
Web and Multimedia Technologies,
Knowledge Representation, Ontology
Modeling and Alignment and Web Science.
His current specific subjects :
Multimedia semantics, Interlinking
multimedia, Multimedia metadata
interoperability, Multimedia metadata
provenance
DISTINCTIONS
- Best paper award at the 14th
Journées Francophones d’Ingénierie
des Connaissances (IC’03), 2003.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• Raphaël Troncy, Bartosz Malocha
and André Fialho. Linking Events
with Media. In the 6th International
Conference on Semantic Systems
(I-SEMANTICS’10), Graz, Austria,
September 1-3, 2010
• Raphaël Troncy, Werner Bailer,
Michael Hausenblas and Martin
Hoffernig. VAMP: a service for
validating MPEG-7 descriptions w.r.t.
to formal profile definitions. In
Multimedia Tools and Applications,
46(2), pages 307-329, 2010
• Raphaël Troncy, «Bringing the IPTC
News Architecture into the Semantic
Web». In 7th International Semantic
Web Conference (ISWC’08), vol. LNCS
5318, pages 483-498, Karlsruhe,
Germany, October 26-30, 2008
• Richard Arndt, Raphaël Troncy,
Steffen Staab, Lynda Hardman and
Miroslav Vacura. «COMM: Designing
a Well-Founded Multimedia Ontology
for the Web». In 6th International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC’07),
vol. LNCS 4825, pages 30-43, Busan,
Korea, November 11-15, 2007
Networking and Security Dept
Marko VUKOLIĆ
Email
Marko.Vukolic@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 52
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE :
Assistant Professor
4 EDUCATION :
l
In 2008, he obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Communication
Systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).
l
In 2001, he received a Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering
from University of Belgrade, Serbia.
4TEACHING:
He is currently Assistant Professor within the Networking and Security
Department.
From 2004 to 2008, he was a research assistant for several courses on
distributed algorithms and systems at EPFL. In 2009, he gave several
lectures within the Security and Fault-tolerance in Distributed Systems
course at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ).
In 2009-2010, while at IBM Research – Zurich, he was also a supervisor of
several student projects, including one EURECOM M.Sc. project.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
From 2008 until 2010, he was a PostDoc/Visiting Scientist in the Storage
Systems group at IBM Research – Zurich.
He was involved in R&D on IBM’s flagship products for key management
for encrypted storage, OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol
standardization, and design of next-generation reliable cloud-storage
solutions.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Byzantine fault-tolerance, Cloud computing, Concurrency, Fault-tolerant
distributed algorithms and systems, Reliable and secure distributed
storage, Quantum distributed computing, Quorum systems, Verification of
distributed systems.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is a co-chair of the SOFSEM 2011 conference and a reviewer for several
prestigious journals (e.g., Distributed Computing, Journal of Computer
Security, SIAM Journal on Computing) and conferences (e.g., ACM PODC).
He is also a voting member of the OASIS Key Management Interoperability
Protocol technical committee.
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/vukolic.en.htm
CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS
•
Abortable state-machine
replication
•
Characterizing speculation
in distributed systems
•
Inter-cloud storage
•
Reconfiguration of
distributed storage systems
DISTINCTIONS
-
2010, Best Paper Award,
5th ACM SIGOPS/Eurosys European
Conference on Computer Systems
(Eurosys 2010) for the paper «The
Next 700 BFT Protocols».
-
2009,
IBM
Research
Accomplishment Award for the
contribution to the Key Lifecycle
Management project, including
the impact on the Tivoli KeyLifecycle Manager (TKLM) product
and on the OASIS Key Management
Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)
standardization.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• P. Dutta, R. Guerraoui, R. R.
Levy, and M. Vukolić. Fast access to
distributed atomic memory. SIAM
Journal on Computing, to appear.
• R. Guerraoui and M. Vukolić.
Refined Quorum Systems. Distributed
Computing 23(1):1-42, 2010.
• R. Guerraoui, N. Knežević, V.
Quéma, and M. Vukolić. The Next
700 BFT Protocols. 5th ACM SIGOPS/
Eurosys European Conference on
Computer Systems (EuroSys), Paris,
France, April 2010.
Multimedia Communications Dept
Christian WELLEKENS
Email
Christian.Wellekens@eurecom.fr
Phone
+33 (0)4 93 00 81 00
Fax
+33 (0)4 93 00 82 00
TEACHING & RESEARCH
4TITLE : Professor Emeritus
4 EDUCATION :
l Christian Wellekens received the degree of Ingénieur Civil Electricien
Mécanicien from the University of Louvain, Belgium in 1965 and the Ph.D.
from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974.
Since his retirement, he studies for a Master in Philosophy at the University
of Louvain (graduation planned in 2011).
4TEACHING:
From 1969 to 1992, he was a lecturer in electronics and circuit theory at
Ecole Centrale des Arts et Métiers (ECAM), Brussels.
In September 1992, he joined EURECOM as a full Professor and headed the
Multimedia Communications Department until October 1998.
He retired from EURECOM on 2007 where he is now active as Professor
emeritus.
4INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
He worked for MBLE Research Labs (Philips development) from 1965-68
where he developed microwave power amplifiers. In 1968, he joined the
Philips Research Laboratory (PRLB) where he stayed till March 1991. He
worked successively on the mathematical approximation of specifications
of analog and digital filters, on piezoelectric transducer modeling and on
speech recognition.
He spent a sabbatical year (1989-1990) at Bellcore (Bell Communications
Research), Morristown, N.J USA. His main contributions were in circuit
theory, signal processing, speech recognition, connectionist networks and
applied mathematics.
From March 1991 to September 1992, he was a Scientific Advisor for Speech
Recognition at Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Belgium) where he
contributed to the development of industrial speech recognizers using
stochastic models as well as neural networks.
4MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS
Speech recognition in adverse environmemt and under major intrinsic
variabilities like speech rate, speaker‘s stress, Signal processing, Stochastic
models.
4VISIBILITY, MEMBERSHIP, COMMITTEE
He is Life Senior Member of IEEE.
He was a member of the first IEEE-TC on Neural Networks.
He was a member of the IEEE STC in 2002-2005.
He was an elected member of the ISCA board from 2000 to 2007 and is still
an ex-officio member as its ISCApad newsletter editor
4ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
http://www.eurecom.fr/people/welleken.en.htm
DISTINCTIONS
- he co-authored the paper winning
the ISCA 2009 best paper award at the
interspeech conference in Brighton,
«Automatic speech recognition and
speecb variability: a review»published
in the speech communication journal.
Sept. 10, 2009.
- In 2005, he received the Christoffel
Plantin Award (Belgium) as an
outstanding
Belgian
personality
working abroad.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Benzeghiba, Mohamed; De Mori, R;
Deroo, O; Erbes, T;Jouvet, D;Fissore,
L; Laface, P;Mertins, A; Ris, C; Rose,
R; Tyagi, Vivek; Wellekens, Christian
J Automatic speech recognition and
speech variability: A review Speech
Communication, Volume 49, Issues 1011, October-November 2007 , pp 763786
- Tyagi, Vivek; Wellekens, Christian J;
Slock, Dirk T M Least squares filtering
of speech signals for robust ASR Speech
Communication, Volume 48, Issue 11,
November 2006 , pp 1528-1544
- Valente, Fabio; Wellekens, Christian
J
Variational
bayesian
feature
saliency for audio type classification
ICASSP 2005, 30th IEEE International
Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and
Signal Processing, March 18-23, 2005Philadelphia, USA
- Nguyen, Patrick; Rigazio, Luca;Kuhn,
Roland;Junqua,
Jean-Claude;
Wellekens, Christian J Self-adaptation
using eigenvoices for large-vocabulary
continuous
speech
recognition
ITRW’2001, Adaptation Methods for
Automatic Speech Recognition, August
2001 - Sophia-Antipolis, France
- Delacourt, Perrine; Wellekens,
Christian J DISTBIC : A speaker-based
segmentation for audio data indexing
Speech Communication, Volume 32
N°1-2 -2000 , pp 111-126
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