Phd Students :
Mihaly BEREKMERI : Modelling and Control of Cloud services: application to the control of performance and dependability of MapReduce (2012-2015)
Co-supervision with Sara Bouchenak (PR1 LIRIS, INSA Lyon). Funding from ANR Labex PERSYVAL-lab
Now: Technical leader @Equifax, Leeds UK
Naweilou ZHOU : Autonomic Thread Parallelism and Mapping Control for Software Transactional Memory
Co-supervision Eric RUTTEN (INRIA Grenoble), Jean-François MEHAUT (UGA/CEA) et Gwenael Delaval (UGA). Funding from ANR Labex PERSYVAL-lab
Now: Research Scientist @Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Munich DE
Sophie CERF: Control theory for computing systems: application to big-data cloud services & location privacy protection (2015 – 2019)
Co-supervision with Nicolas Marchand (CNRS Gipsa-lab). Collaborations with Sara Bouchenak (Lyris, INSA Lyon), Sonia Ben Mokhtar (LIRIS Lyon) and Lydia Chen (IBM Zurich, CH)
Now: IFSP Researcher @INRIA, Grenoble FR
Zilong ZHAO : Extracting knowledge from macroeconomic data, images and unreliable data (2017 – 2020)
Co-supervision with Nicolas Marchand (CNRS Gipsa-lab), Louis Job (PR Sciences Po Grenoble, PACTE). Funding ANR DATE project
Now: Visiting Scholar @National University of Singapore & Head of R&D Betterdata
Mukhtar SANI : Real-time Control of mobile robots using Model Predictive Control and Game-theoretic approaches (2018-2022)
Co-supervision with Ahmad Hably (Grenoble INP UGA)
Now: Research Engineer @CEA, Paris-Saclay FR
Quentin GUILLOTEAU : Autonomic approach for dynamic resource management in HPC clusters (2020 – 2023)
Co-supervision : Eric RUTTEN (INRIA Grenoble) et Olivier RICHARD (LIG UGA)
Now: Post-Doc @INRIA Lyon - France, working with Christian Perez.
Houssem MEGHNOUDJ : Characterization and control of Learning Algorithms: application on noisy medical data (2020-2024)
Co-supervision: Mazen ALAMIR (CNRS GIPSA-lab)
Now: CTO @YONA Robotics
Paul DAOUDI : Reinforcement Learning on real physical systems (2021 - 2024)
Co-supervision with Christophe PRIEUR (CNRS GIPSA-lab), Ludovic DOS SANTOS (Huawei Paris), Merwan BARLIER (Huawei Paris)
Now: Researcher @Google
Kluds HALITIM : Efficicient task hybridization in heterogeneous computing: practical combinations of Control and Scheduling theories (2023 - ongoing)
Co-supervision with Eric RUTTEN (INRIA Grenoble), Raphael BLEUSE (UGA). Collaboration with Quarnot Computing Paris
Saleh ABUALI : Coordination of multi-agent systems with limited information (2025 - ongoing)
Co-supervision with Nicolas Marchand (DR1 Gipsa-lab), Lara BRIÑÓN ARRANZ (Grenoble INP UGA)
PostDocs
Fadoua TAIA-ALAOUI, CAPture et analyse d'acTivités humaInes par MOdules inertiels : vers une solution adaptée à la naVigation multimodalE urbaine intelligante (2019 - 2021)
Co-supervision with Hassen Fourati (UGA GIPSA-lab), Alain Kibangou (UGA GIPSA-lab), Nicolas Vuillerme (UGA LIG)
Now: Research Engineer @GRICAD
Emilio MOLINA-OLIVARES : Protecting privacy in mobile apps using predictive control and machine learning techniques (2022 – 2023)
Co-supervision with Mirko FIACCHINI (CNRS GIPSA-lab)
Now: Post-Doctoral researcher @Creatis Medical Imaging Research Center, Lyon FR
Daniel DENARDI HUFF : Light predictive control and machine learning techniques (2023 – 2024)
Co-supervision with Mirko FIACCHINI (CNRS GIPSA-lab)
Now: Associate Professor @Ecole Centrale Lille
Nicola ZAUPA : Reconfigurable AI Systems: Dynamically Adaptable Neural Networks (2025 - ongoing)
Co-supervision with Matteo Tacchi-Bénard (CNRS GIPSA-lab). Collaboration with LIRIS Lyon and INRIA Rennes
Master students
In 2017 I supervised Sonja Lindberg, student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA for a summer internship at GIPSA-lab. She worked on privacy protection techniques for IoT systems.
Final year Master students at UGA or Grenoble-INP: 2013 Philippe Signoret West (now Microsoft) ; en 2014 Praveen Ethiraj (now Thales) ; en 2015 Amina Yousfi et Sophie Cerf (now IFSP INRIA) ; en 2016 Daniel Avendano (now Operational Bussiness Manager at ECM Technologies) et Emmanuel Stahl (now Engineer at Automatique & Industrie) ; en 2017 Jaime Julio Cesar Saavedra Mendieta (now Researcher Paraguay) et Jean-Yves Burlet ; en 2018 Agustin Yabo (now Research Scientist INRAE ) ; en 2019 Quentin GUILLOTEAU (now Post-Doc Lyon), Kabiru Dahiru IBRAHIM, Abdul-Hafeez ALI (now Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Nigeria); en 2020 Bashir IBRAHIM (now eHealth Africa, Nigeria) ; en 2021 David DONKOR et Ali El Hadi NOURA, en 2022 Ahmadreza AHMADI (now Fortinet, Valbonne); en 2023 Rosa Pagano (now Airbus Helicopters, Aix en Provence).