CNRS researcher (Directeur de Recherche)

Member of Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), affiliated to both Université Paris Cité and CNRS

• Master degree in Applied Mathematics from University Grenoble-Alpes, in 1987
• Engineer degree in Computer Science and Applied Maths from ENSIMAG, in 1987.
• PhD degree in Computer Science from ENS Lyon in 1990
• Joined CNRS in 1991.
• Habilitation in Computer Science from ENS Lyon in 1994.

• 2003-2006: Deputy director of LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique), located at University Paris-Saclay.
• 2005-2009: Management Committee Chair of the European COST Action 295 DYNAMO on Algorithmic Aspects of Dynamic Networks.
• 2010-2017: Director of LIAFA (Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique), and IRIF (Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale), both located at Université Paris Cité.
• 2018-present: head of the Distributed Computing group at IRIF.
• 2024-present: Co-chair of the national research group Informatique Fondamentale et ses Mathématiques (GdR IFM).

• Parallel and distributed computing
• Design and analysis of distributed algorithms and data structures for networks
• Algorithms for asynchronous failure-prone systems, analyzed through the lens of algebraic topology

An almost complete list of publications can be found on DBLP

• Distributed Computing (DC)
• Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS)
• Information and Computation (I&C)

• PC chair for the 11th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2022)
• PC co-chair of the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, in charge of the Track Algorithms (IPDPS 2017).
• PC chair for the Track C (Foundations of Networked Computation) of the 41st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2014)
• PC chair for the 30th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2011)
• PC chair for the 19th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2005)
• PC chair for the 13th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2001)
• PC co-chair for the 8th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2001)
• PC co-chair for the 2nd European Conference on Parallelism (EuroPar 1996).

• Silver Medal from CNRS in 2012
• Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing in 2014
• Imre Simon Test-of-Time award in 2024