Short bio

  I am a Senior Expert at Huawei, that I joined to lead the Network AI Team (Nov 2018), a team of researchers passionate about using machine learning and artificial intelligence to solve hard networking problems. I am currently serving as Director of the DataCom Department at the Huawei Paris Research Center (Jul 2019) and as Director of the AI4NET Lab (Jul 2020) for Huawei Network Product & Solutions.

  I received my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR, 2010) from UPMC Sorbonne Universite, my PhD (2005) and MSc (2001) degrees from Politecnico di Torino. I am Distinguished Member of ACM (2023), Senior member of IEEE (2013), Member of IET (2022) and an Expert of CLAIRE (2021).

  Before joining Huawei in 2018, I occupied a Chair Professor (2016-2018), Full Professor (2012-2016) and Associate Professor (2006-2012) positions at the Computer Science and Networking department of Telecom ParisTech as well as a Full Professor (2012-2019) position at the LIX department of Ecole Polytechnique.   Prior to that, I worked with the Telecommunication Network Group of the Electrical Engineering department at Politecnico di Torino (2001-2006) and held a Visiting Researcher position in the Computer Science division at University of California, Berkeley (2003-2004).

Achievements

  I am very passionate in my work and always open for new challenges. Currently I put my passion at work on research interests such as Machine learning, Internet traffic measurement, and high speed all-sofware networking. Formerly I also worked on congestion control, Information centric networks, green networking, peer-2-peer networks, traffic engineering vehicular networks. I’d always want (but actually never find time ) to coherently present all my present and past activities, so please bear with this website as it is.

  To summarize my achievements in these last few years, I have coauthored 20+ patents and 200+ papers in leading networking (including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM and ACM IMC) and machine learning (including ACM KDD and IEEE ICDM) conferences and journals (including IEEE JSAC, ACM/IEEE TON, ACM CCR, IEEE TMM). For what matters, Google scholar reports 8500+ citations, with an H-index of 45+, an i10index of 130+, and 20+ papers with over 100 citations each. I am honored to have received over a dozen prestigious distinctions including an IETF Applied Network Research Prize (2016) and the Google Faculty Research Award (2015).

   Whenever possible, I put datasets and code on this Webpage: I am delighted that our work and had impact on IETF standards LEDBAT WG, that 4000+ people have found ccnSim useful for their research, and that 1000+ people browsed and used our anycast dataset. Do not hesitate to wander throughout the pages in this website, as we keep pushing new stuff!

   These achievements wouldn’t have been possible without the help of several MSc, PhD students and PostDocs, which have been funded mainly through European research projects (such as FP7 mPlane, NAPA-WINE, Celtic TIGER, TIGER2 and TRANS, ANR Connect) and industrial grants (with Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Orange, Google, Cisco, Wikipedia and Huawei).

  In terms of community services, I co-chaired the RT2, that federates the Institut Mines-Telecom researchers working on networking domain (about 50 people from 5 schools in France), serve in the Steering committee of ITC and AINTEC, chaired ACM ICN (2016), ACM SIGCOMM AINTEC (2013,2014) and the ACM SIGCOMM PhD School on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (2014,2018) and participated in the program committees of 70+ conferences including ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM of which I have been awarded Distinguished Member in multiple times (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022).

  More details about myself can be found in this short curriculum vitae (updated about once per year, also available in this longer academic version). Elsewhere in this page, you’ll find my publications and patents, my teaching activities, some open source code and datasets, and the list of weekly seminars I (used to) organize (during 2008-2018). Of course we now have a weekly seminar in Huawei, so get in touch if you’re interested to give a talk!

Awards

_Note: I am not listing internal Huawei awards. While I am proud of the distinctions I have received, company awards are not publicly accessible and so hard to verify with respect to academic awards. _

Grants and projects

I am grateful to a number of industrial partners, that have sponsored my research work, including:

Furthemore, I am grateful to the various agencies that funded over the years. Here are some pointers to the research projects I am/was involved with as technical and management leader for Telecom ParisTech :

Here’s some additional pointers to the research projects I was involved with prior to joining Telecom ParisTech :

Community services

Institutional responsabilities

Journal reviewer and editorial board

Program Committees

Alumni

Note: detailed information about subordinates in Huawei cannot be shared due to obvious business concerns, for which the terse description on the main part of this CV is considered sufficient