Members
French Coordinator: Bruno Tuffin
BRUNO TUFFIN received his PhD degree in applied mathematics from the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 1997. Since then, he has been with INRIA in Rennes. He spent eight months as a postdoc at Duke University in 1999. His research interests include developing Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo simulation techniques for the performance evaluation of telecommunication systems, and developing new Internet-pricing schemes and telecommunication-related economicalmodels. He is currently Associate Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. He has written or co-written two books devoted to simulation: Rare event simulation using Monte Carlo methods published by John Wiley and Sons in 2009, and La simulation de Monte Carlo (in French), published by Hermes Editions in 2010 and is leading several projects on simulation and pricing.
Canadian Coordinator: Pierre L'Ecuyer
PIERRE L'ECUYER is Professor in the Departement d'Informatique et de Recherche Operationnelle, at the Universite de Montreal, Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Stochastic Simulation and Optimization. He is a member of the CIRRELT and GERAD research centers. His main research interests are random number generation, quasi- Monte Carlo methods, efficiency improvement via variance reduction, sensitivity analysis and optimization of discrete event stochastic systems, and discrete-event simulation in general. He is currently Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, and Associate/Area Editor for ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Statistics and Computing, Management Science, International Transactions in Operational Research, The Open Applied Mathematics Journal, and Cryptography and Communications. He obtained the E. W. R. Steacie fellowship in 1995-97, a Killam fellowship in 2001-03, and became an INFORMS Fellow in 2006. His recent research articles are available on-line from his web page.
Members from INRIA
- Bruno Tuffin, CR INRIA
- Gerardo Rubino, DR INRIA, leader of Dionysos.
- Katy Paroux, associate professor at the University of Besancon, and in delegation at INRIA Rennes, Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2009
- Samira Saggadi, PhD student, starting in November 2008.
- A collaborator from the former associated team: Hector Cancela (Montevideo, Uruguay).
- A Master student: Matias Lee (University of Cordoba, Argentina);
Members from the University of Montreal
- Pierre L'Ecuyer, Full Professor at Montreal.
- Fabian Bastin, Assistant professor at Montreal.
- Vasile Sinescu, Postdoc.
- Eric Buist, PhD student (up to beginning of 2009).
- Adam L'archeveque-Gaudet, Master student.
- David Munger, Postdoc (started in 2009).
- Zdravko Botev, Postdoc (2010-2011).
- A new postdoc, working on Call Centers (starting in Fall 2010).
