Speakers Bio

Prof. Florin Udrea - Univ. of Cambridge, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Bio: Florin Udrea has done pioneering and truly innovative research, which has been translated into direct engineering application in the areas of electronic devices for electrical power/energy control and gas sensing.  The founder of three companies, he has commercialised his research as well as collaborating with leading industrial companies internationally to develop products based on his research. He holds 70 patents and was recognised through the award of the RAEng Silver Medal in 2012. He is also a world-leading academic with more than 350 publications. He has just taken up the position of global editor for power semiconductor devices of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, the preeminent international journal in electronic devices.

Dr. Henri Camon - LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Henri Camon is Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS.  His scientific interests include micro- and nano- technologies for optic and photonic systems. Dr. Camon is the director of the joint laboratory between ESSILOR and LAAS-CNRS.

Prof. Patrick Danes - Univeristé Paul Sabatier & LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Patrick Danès is Full Professor at University Toulouse III Paul Sabatier.  He leads a research team at LAAS-CNRS, which contributes to the above project on computer vision and smart sensor integration aspects.

Prof. Jeremie Grisolia - INSA Toulouse & LPCNO

Bio: Jeremie Grisolia is full professor at INSA Toulouse. After graduating in matter physics at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France) in 1997, he wrote his thesis CEMES/CNRS Toulouse (2000), "the thermal evolution of defects introduced by ion implantation helium or hydrogen into the silicon and silicon carbide ". Then he joined the company Opsitech®, coming from LETI/CEA in Grenoble (2000-2002), where he was involved in material characterization and metrology dedicated to the development from the silicon wafer to packaging of optical products such as MEMS and MOEMS. Since 2002, he worked in the Nanotech team of LPCNO to develop new processes of nanotechnology for the manipulation of nano-objects, their addressing and the study and operation of their remarkable electronic transport and optical properties in order to realize functional devices. In particular, he focused on the study of the electronic properties of buried nanocrystals or colloidal nanoparticles assembled on surface for nanocrystals memory applications and nanoparticles strain gauges respectively. Recently, his research focuses on the coupling between electron transport and plasmonics, the plasmo-electronics.

Dr. Antoine Monmayrant - LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Antoine Monmayrant is permanent CNRS researcher at LAAS-CNRS in the PHOTO team. He works on integrated photonics and developping new optical systems based on non-conventionnal optics.

Dr. Simon Lacroix - LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Dr Simon Lacroix is a permanent CNRS researcher at LAAS-CNRS in the Robotics and InteractionS team. He is particularly dedicated to autonomous field robotics, where the acquisition, interpretation and adaptation to the surroundings plays a key role in the autonomy of the robots.

Dr. Eric Alata - INSA Toulouse & LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Eric Alata is Associate Professor at INSA de Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS. He graduated in 2004 in computer sciences at University of Toulouse. He also achieved a Ph.D. in security in 2007. His main research interests focuses on security in low-level layers of embedded systems, IoT and web infrastructure. He teaches on security subjects and automata theory. He also took part in the creation, at Toulouse, of a master focusing on security of systems and networks.

Dr. David Nowak  - IRCICA

Bio: Dr. David Nowak, researcher at CNRS, received his PhD from the University of Rennes 1 in 1999. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford University, he was appointed in 2001 as a CNRS researcher at the “Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification”, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. From 2005, he spent 8 years abroad working at the University of Tokyo and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. In 2012, he was appointed at the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics, before being appointed in 2013 at the University of Lille 1 where he currently carries on his research of formal proofs for security.

Dr. Alexandru Takacs - Université Paul Sabatier & LAAS-CNRS

 Bio: Alexandru Takacs received the engineer diploma in electronic engineering from the Military Technical Academy, Bucharest, Romania, in 1999, and the Master degree and Ph. D. degree in microwave and optical communications from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Lecturer with the Military Technical Academy of Bucharest, and an Associate Researcher with the Microtechnology Institute of Bucharest. From 2008 to 2010, he occupied a Postdoctoral position with the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Toulouse, France. During 2011, he was an R&D RF Engineer with Continental Automotive SAS France, where he was in charge of antenna design and automotive electromagnetic simulation. Since 2012, he has been an Associate Professor with the University (Paul Sabatier) of Toulouse, France, where he performs research within LAAS–CNRS. He has authored or coauthored one book, one book chapter, 4 patents, 20 papers in refereed journals, and over 80 communications in international symposium proceedings. His research interests include the design of microwave and RF circuits, energy harvesting and wireless power transfer, small antenna design, electromagnetic simulation techniques, and optimization methods.

Dr. Giorgia Longobardi -  Univeristy of Cambridge

Bio:  Dr. Giorgia Longobardi obtained a first class MSC in Electronic engineering from University of Naples Federico II in 2010. She joined the High Voltage Microelectronics and Sensors group at University of Cambridge in 2010 where she pioneered the work on GaN-based power devices. Dr. Longobardi obtained her PhD degree at University of Cambridge in 2014. Since 2010 she has worked in a leading role with several companies such as NXP, Vishay Semiconductors and Infineon. Dr. Longobardi has been awarded the prestigious Junior Research Fellowship from Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge for 4 years starting from Oct ‘15. She is currently responsible of the research activity on GaN devices in the Electronic Power and Energy Conversion group in the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge. She has strong knowledge in TCAD simulations, electrical characterisation techniques and reliability of GaN transistors. Dr. Longobardi published work in prestigious journals such as Electron Device Letters and presented at conferences such as IEDM.

For more information, please visit Giorgia's WEB Page

Prof. Jean-Marc Pierson - Université Paul Sabatier & IRIT

Bio: Jean-Marc Pierson serves as a Full Professor in Computer Science at the University of Toulouse (France) since 2006. He received his PhD from the ENS-Lyon, France in1996. He was an Associate Professor at the University Littoral Cote-d'Opale (1997-2001) in Calais, then at INSA-Lyon (2001-2006). He is a member of the IRIT Laboratory and Chair of the SEPIA Team on distributed systems. His main interests are related to large-scale distributed systems. He serves on several PCs and editorial boards in the Cloud, Grid, Pervasive, and Energy-aware computing area. Since the last years, his researches focus on energy aware distributed systems, in particular monitoring, job placement and scheduling, virtual machines techniques, green networking,  autonomic computing, mathematical modeling.  He was chairing the EU funded COST IC804 Action on “Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems” and participates in several national and european projects on energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems.

For more information, please visit http://www.irit.fr/~Jean-Marc.Pierson/

Dr. Christophe Loyez - CNRS, IEMN /  IRCICA

Bio: Christophe LOYEZ  is CNRS researcher at IEMN since 2001. He has initialized several multidisciplinary research activities on the high data rates wireless systems and low power consumption systems for radiocommunication and localisation. He is a regular scientist responsible of several national and international projects on millimetre-wave systems and broadband vector RF systems. He is habilitaded to supervise research (HDR) since 2012 and he is the thesis director on high energy efficiency systems and on low energy ionizing dosimetry systems. Head of the research group CSAM (Circuits Systems Applications Multi-technologies), he is also involved in common laboratories with ST-Microelectronics on the new CMOS/BiCMOS technologies and with PRYSMIAN on optical sensors and communications.

Dr. Eric Tournier - Université Paul Sabatier & LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Éric Tournier received the Engineer degree and the Ph.D. degree both from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Toulouse, France, in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Since september 1998, he has been an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Paul Sabatier university of Toulouse, and a researcher at the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS) of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he is the head of the "Microwaves and Opto-microwaves for Telecommunication Systems" team. He has worked on multi purpose analog, digital and smart-power integrated circuits design, and is now involved in telecommunication, aerospace and aeronautic MMIC design on CMOS and SiGe technologies, with extensive collaboration with National Centre of Space Research (CNES), Thalès Alenia Space and ST Microelectronics. His current work is mainly on high speed designs for frequency synthesis (Phase-Locked Loop, Direct Digital Synthesis, ...), massive parallel receivers and low noise frequency division applied to Compact Opto-Electronic Oscillator (COEO). He has participated to a dozen conferences Technical Program Committee (TPC), and was the TPC chair of EuMIC 2015 conference.

Dr. Thierry Monteil - INSA Tououse & LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Thierry Monteil is associate professor in computer science since 1998 at INSA Toulouse and researcher at LAAS-CNRS. He received the Engineering degrees in Computer Science and applied mathematics from ENSEEIHT in 1992. He had a Doctorate in parallel computing in 1996 and a HDR degree in 2010. He works on parallel computing middleware (LANDA parallel environment), Grid resources management (AROMA project), computer and network modeling, load balancing with prediction models, autonomous policies to improve performance on distributed applications, parallelization of large electromagnetic simulation and autonomic middleware, and machine-to-machine architecture. He has managed a SUN microsystems center of excellence in the field of grid and cluster for network applications and a Cisco academy. Since 2011, he coordinates the industrial SOP project funded by ANR that creates hybrid cloud for personal service over ADSL network under energy and quality of service constraints. He is member of ETSI (European Telecommunication Standards Institute) and the contact for CNRS. He also represents CNRS in the eclipse foundation and manages the OM2M open source project. He is author of more than 50 regular and invited papers in conferences and journals

For more information please visit the Thierry's Web page

Prof. Eduardo Jacob - University of the Basque Country

Bio:Eduardo Jacob after spending some few years, as network manager first and R&D project leader later, in the private business came back to the University of the Basque Country. He leads a research group at his university that is participating in several national and European R&D projects. He is also member of the Advisory Council of the Basque Data Protection Agency where he occupies the ICT expert chair. His research interests are security in distributed systems and next generation networks, after some previous work he is targeting industrial applications of SDN and NFV for resilience, experimental network infrastructures and cyber physical systems. He is an IEEE senior member.

Prof. Laetitia Jourdan - Université de Lille

Bio: Pr. Laetitia JOURDAN (F) is currently full Professor in Computer Sciences at University of Lille 1/CRIStAL. Her areas of research are modelling datamining task as combinatorial optimization problems, solving methods based on metaheuristics, incorporate learning in metaheuristics and multiobjective optimization.
Pr. Jourdan received a master degree in computer science and mathematics for University Paris Dauphine in 1999. Pr. Jourdan hold a PhD in combinatorial optimization from the University of Lille 1 (France). From 2004 to 2005, she was research associate at University of Exeter (UK). Then she was researcher with tenure at INRIA. She holds his dissertation to lead researches (“HDR: Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”) from the Univ. of Lille in 2010.
She directed and co-supervised nine PhD and twelve Master students. She is (co)author of more than 100 papers published in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. She organized several international conferences (LION 2015, MIC 2015, etc) and is reviewer editor for frontier in Big Data and International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM) (2008-2012).

Dr. Nicolas Jozefowiez - INSA Toulouse & LAAS-CNRS

Bio: Nicolas Jozefowiez obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lille 1 in 2004. He was after that a Fulbright visiting scholar for one year at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 2008, he is an associate professor in computer science at INSA Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS. His research interests are about combinatorial optimization, multi-objective optimization and algorithms, based on integer programming or heuristics, to solve these problems with a special interest for problems related to transportation and spatial.

Dr. Tias Guns - KU Leuven

Bio: Tias Guns is a post-doctoral fellow at the DTAI lab of the KU Leuven and will soon start as assistant professor at the VUB in Brussels, Belgium. His research lies on the border between data mining and constraint programming, and his main interest is in combining methods from both fields. His PhD was awarded by both the CP and AI community, and he has organized a number of workshops and a special issue on the topic of combining constraint programming with machine learning and data mining.

Prof. Marie-Pierre Gleizes - Université Paul Sabatier & IRIT, Director of NEOCampus project

Bio: Marie-Pierre Gleizes is  Full Professor at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse and  researcher at IRIT (Institute of Computer Science in Toulouse – France, www.irit.fr). She manages the laboratory strategic axis about ambient intelligence composed of 11 research teams and 66 permanent members. She is in charge of the SMAC (Systèmes Multi-Agent Coopératifs or Cooperative Multi-Agent Systems) team composed of 21 permanent members and 24 PhD and post-docs students. She is one leader of the strategic axis of the laboratory "ambient socio-technical systems" (www.irit.fr/SSTA). At the university level, she manages the neOCampus project which aims at designing a smart, innovative, sustainable campus at Toulouse III University. Her main topics of interest are the design of complex systems with emergent functionality. Usually, classical design of computational systems requires some important initial knowledge: first, the exact purpose of the system, and second, every interaction with which the system may be confronted in the future. On the contrary, her researches are concerning theories and methods based on a multi-agent approach in which the global function emerges from the evolving reorganization between the agents. She works on adaptive multi-agent systems, self-organisation mechanisms, cooperation and in particular on methodologies to design this kind of systems and she applies these concepts to the ambient system design with a particular focus on context management. She has participated to works about the AMAS theory and the ADELFE methodology. She has applied the adaptive multi-agent systems approach in several national and European projects.