Welcome to my page!

I am a professor of computer science at the university of Bordeaux, affiliated with LaBRI. I am the head of the Distributed Computing group and a member of the Graph Theory group (both in the Combinatorics and Algorithms department). From 2008 to 2012, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa with Paola Flocchini and Nicola Santoro. I obtained the PhD in Bordeaux in 2007. My research interests include highly dynamic networks, computational complexity, distributed and non-distributed algorithms, and all kind of things that interact in a decentralized way. Besides theory, I enjoy programming and I am the founder of the JBotSim project, a tool for fast prototyping of distributed algorithms in dynamic networks. I teach mainly at the IUT, and also at the UF d’Informatique and at the ENSEIRB.
Main professional duties:
- Head of the Distributed Computing group at LaBRI (12 faculty members)
- Member of the 27
th section (computer science) of the French CNU (2019-2022). - Head of the TEMPOGRAL ANR Project (2022-2027).
- Editorial board member of Theoretical Computer Science (Track A)
Recent talks
- Random thoughts on coverings - Marseille Covering Days, CIRM (Feb. 2023)
- A brief introduction to computational complexity - LOMA, U. Bordeaux (Jan. 2023)
- A brief introduction to distributed algorithms - LOMA, U. Bordeaux (Jan. 2023)
- Dynamic networks from inside and outside - U. Genève (Jan. 2023)
- The TEMPOGRAL Project (kickoff meeting) - Poitiers (Nov. 2022)
- Spanners and connectivity problems in temporal graphs - U. Liverpool (Nov. 2022)
Recent and upcoming events
PhD students (past and present)
- Agathe HOUZELOT (since Jan. 2022)
White-Box Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithms
(CIFRE funding at IDEMIA, with Christophe Giraud) - Timothée CORSINI (since Sep. 2021)
Temporal graph theory and classical TCS topics
(Ministry funding) - Luiz F. AFRA BRITO (since Sep. 2019)
Efficient data structures for querying dynamic graphs
(Funding from Brazilian governement, with Marcelo Keese Albertini and Bruno Travençolo) - Jason SCHOETERS (PhD’2021)
Contributions to Temporal Graph Theory and Mobility-Related Problems - Yessin M. NEGGAZ (PhD’2016)
Automatic Classification of Dynamic Graphs
(with Serge Chaumette and Colette Johnen) - Matthieu BARJON (PhD’2016)
Autour des groupes tolérants aux délais dans les flottes mobiles communicantes
(with Serge Chaumette and Colette Johnen)
Postdoc, Masters, and Bachelor thesis
- Writika SARKAR (Bachelor, CMI, Chennai, 2022)
Expressivity of temporal graphs in terms of reachability - Neven VILLANI (Bachelor, ENS-Paris-Saclay, 2021)
Rétro-ingénierie de mouvements à partir de traces d’interaction - Timothée CORSINI (Masters, ENSEIRB, 2021)
Classical graph theory concepts motivated by temporal graph problems
(with Hervé Hocquard) - Rémi LAPLACE (Postdoc, Sep. 2018 – Mar. 2020)
The JBotSim library - Valentin PASQUALE (Bachelor, ENS-Lyon, 2019) Spanneurs temporels
- Kinda AL CHAHID (Masters, U.Bordeaux, 2018)
Adaptation of JBotSim GUI to Android and Web platforms - Noël NADAL (Bachelor, ENS-Cachan, 2016)
Robustesse de la minimalité pour la relation de revêtement dans les graphes - Robin DESPOUYS, (Masters, U.Bordeaux, 2013)
- Matthieu BARJON, (Masters, U.Bordeaux, 2013)
- Yessin M. Neggaz, (Masters, U.Bordeaux, 2013)
- Ahmed Jedda, (Masters, U.Ottawa, 2010)
- David DEL CAMPO, (Masters, U.Bordeaux, 2006)
(through collaborations)
- Carlos Gomez Calzado (PhD’2015)
- Ahmed Jedda (PhD’2014)
- Walter Quattrociocchi (PhD’2012)
- Jérémie Albert (PhD’2011)
Misc
- Lucile’s translation services, from English or Spanish, to French
- A sample of my father’s work on sustainable development
- My grand father, Claude Elliès, doing his own kind of research (lyrical abstraction)
- Denis Magnol’s Cinexpo web page
- If you or your kids have asthma: Teqoya (mine used to have, until we bought a Tip 9)
- If you find the sequence 20, 4524, 23218501, contact me!