Projects and supervised students

Projects

Current

• [2022-2025] DISPEED, AID project, Intrusion Detection and Security/Performance/Energy tradeoff: a Study for Drone Swarms, with UBO, NAval Group, ICS FORTH, Scientific coordinator.
• [2022-2025] Atos CIFRE project,Energy I/O optimization for HPC with frugal and federated learning, Scientific coordinator.
• [2021-2024] DataMeSS CEA project, HPC Data Placement on Heterogeneous and Multilevel Storage Systems, Scientific coordinator.
• [2020-2022] SUPRA IRT b<>com project, A future-proof and sovereign cloud stack for Telco, AI and e-Health apps on bare metal infrastructure, PArticipant.

Past

• [2020-2022] IDIOM (Integrated Device I/O Monitor), FUI project, with DDN France, Telecom Sud Paris, INRIA Grenoble, CEA, Criteo, QARNOT, QuasarDB, local Scientific coordinator.
• [2019-2020] EFEIGI ((EFfIcient future and nEw Generation vIdeo coding), FUI project, with Thalès, Videolabs, Ateme, Vitec, Eurecom, Ektacom, IETR (INSA Rennes), participant.
• [2017-2020] FALCON IRT b<>com project, Enabling sharing of private IT resources, participant.
• [2016-2019] GHEEMaS (A Green and Highly Efficient and Evolutionary data and storage Management System for Cloud Data Base as a Service), PHC Tassili project, Scientific coordinator.
• [2015-2018] BaD Flash with KoDe Software, Database for Flash memory, Scientific coordinator.
• [2015-2018] iFogStor CIFRE Project with Orange, Tiering et système de stockage dans le Cloud pour une application IoT, Scientific coordinator.
• [2013-2016] INDEED IRT b<>com project, Distributed and energy efficient Distributed Cloud Infrastructure, participant.
• [2011-2012] OpenPeople (Open-Power and Energy Optimization PLatform and Estimator), ANR Project with INRIA Lilles, LORIA, Univ. Bretagne Sud, Univ. Rennes 1, Univ. Nice SA, Thalès Comm., InPixal, participant.
• [2010-2011] Think FPGA, Implementing THINK compoment architectures on reconfigurable accelerators, University project, Scientific coordinator.
• [2009-2010] XanKom project, Porting GNU Linux operating system on radio-frequency link equipments, Scientific coordinator.
• [2007-2008] MORPHEUS FP6 European Project, Multipurpose Dynamically Reconfigurable Platform for Intensive and Flexible Hetereogeneous Processing: A technology breakthrough for Embedded Computing, with Thales France, Alcatel-Lucent Germany, Universita di Bologna Italy, Arttic France, CEA France, Critical blue UK, M 2000 France, Pact xpp technologies Germany, STMicroelectronics Italy, , Technische Universiteit Delft Netherlands, Universitaet Karlsruhe Germany… participant for 18 months.

Supervised PhD students

1. Louis-Marie Nicolas [2022-*], Energy I/O optimization for HPC with frugal and federated learning, CIFRE Atos, supervised with Salim Mimouni and Philippe Couvée
2. Lydia Ait-Oucheggou [2022-*], Storage system optimization for NDN network infrastructures, NIST US, supervised with with Stéphane Rubini and Abdalla Battou

3. Vincent Lannurien [2021-*], Scheduling on heterogeneous resources in the Cloud, IRT b<>com , supervised with Olivier Barais and Laurent d’Orazio.

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4. Camélia Slimani [2018-2022], Towards I/O-efficient Machine Learning algorithms: K-means and Random Forests, High education Ministry and region funding, supervised with Stéphane Rubini
5. Amina Chikhaoui [2017-2022], Data placement in a distributed Cloud for hybrid storage systems, lecturer ENS Algiers, supervised with Kamel Boukhalfa and Laurent Lemarchand.
6. Mohammed Bey Ahmed Khernache [2017-2021], Performance and Energetical Efficiency of New Generation Video Decoding Standards on Low Power Consumption-based Multi-cores Architectures, FUI EFIGI, supervised with Daniel Ménard and Yahia Benmoussa (and before by Eric Senn)
7. Jean-Emile Dartois [2016-2020], Leveraging Cloud unused heterogeneous resources for applications with SLA guarantees, IRT b<>com , supervised with Olivier Barais.
8. Djillali Boukhelef, [2011-2019], Towards a methodology for optimizing the placement of DBAAS objects in a cloud computing environment, supervised with Kamel Boukhalfa and Laurent Lemarchand.
9. Mohamed Islam Naas [2015-2019], Placement of Internet of Things Data in a Fog Infrastructure, CIFRE Orange, supervised with Philippe Raipin and Laurent Lemarchand.
10. Arezki Laga [2014-2018], Performance Optimization of Data Processing Software on SSD Storage Devices, CIFRE KoDe Sotware, supervised with Frank Singhoff.
11. Hamza Ouarnoughi [2013-2017], Autonomic Virtual Machine Placement on Hybrid Storage Systems in an IaaS Cloud, IRT b<>com , supervised with Frank Singhoff and Stéphane Rubini
12. Hai Nam Tran [2013-2017], cache memory-aware priority assignement and scheduling simulation of real-time embedded systems, High education Ministry funding, supervised with Frank Singhoff and Stéphane Rubini
13. Cheikh Salmi [2011-2017], Towards a Description and Modeling of Mathematical Cost Model Inputs: Applications to Data Warehouses, supervised with Ladjel Bellatrèche
14. Yahia Benmoussa [2011-2014], Performance and Energy Consumption Characterization and Modeling of Video Decoding on Multi-core Heterogenous SoC and their Applications, supervised with Eric Senn.
15. Pierre Olivier [2011-2014], Performance and energy consumption estimation of flash-based storage systems in embedded systems, High education Ministry funding, supervised with Eric Senn.

Supervised Postdocs

1. Camélia Slimani [2022-*], Intrusion Detection and Security/Performance/Energy tradeoff: a Study for Drone Swarms, AID DISPEED
2. Mohamed Islam Naas [2020-2022], Designing a kernel I/O tracer, IDIOM (Integrated Device I/O Monitor), FUI project

Supervised Msc/Eng Students

1. Lydia Ait Oucheggou (2021, 6 months), “On cache and data placement in Fog infrastructures”, collaboration between IRISA Rennes and ENSTA-Bretagne.
2. Louis-Marie Nicolas (2021, 6 months), “Designing a reinforcement based strategy for data placement for HPC storage”.
3. Mohamed Handaoui (2019, 6 months), “Managing ephemeral resources on the Cloud”, with IRT b<>com.
4. Camélia Slimani (2018, 6 months), “A heuristic for processor frequency management on hybrid memory based embedded board”.
5. Mohammed Bey Ahmed Khernache (2017, 6 months), « Optimizing database sorting algorithms on NVM”.
6. Oussama Elhamer (2017, 6 months) “Qualifying SSD Endurance and Performance”, collaboration with DDN storage.
7. Chakib Belgaïd (2015, 5 months), “Design and test of FTL on OpenSSD”.
8. Hamza Ouarnoughi (2013, 6 months), « Considering energy aspects in the design of database system on flash memories”, collaboration between LISI (ENSMA Poitiers) – Lab-STICC (Brest).
9. Pierre Olivier (2011, 5 months), “Desiging a hardware timer manager for a realtime operating system and integration in a THINK component-based system”.
10. Ilyes Khetib (2011, 5 months), “Designing a simulator for flash memories”.
11. Bi Shen Yi (2010, 5 months), “Porting embedded Linux on RouterBoard 411”.
12. Khalifa Rouis (2010, 6 months), “A study on the performance of flash-based storage systems”.