Events

• On my (road) bicycle: 5535KM in 2005, 8188KM in 2006, 11485KM in 2007, 12467KM in 2008, 13026KM in 2009!!
• Habilitation defense on the 10th of April 2006
• New book La simulation de Monte Carlo in 2010.
  
• Editor of a book Rare Event Simulation Using Monte Carlo Methods in 2009.
  Now out:
• Associate editor: ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (ToMaCS).
• Associate editor: INFORMS Journal on Computing.
• Associate editor: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.
• Co-guest editor of a special issue for Telecommunication Systems Journal on Socio-Economic Issues of Next Generation Networks.

Main phases of my professional life

• 1994-1997: PhD in applied mathematics at IRISA.
  Title: "Simulation accélérée par les méthodes de Monte Carlo et quasi-Monte Carlo : théorie et applications".
  I also taught mathematics 64 hours per year.
• 1997-1998: On a one year position at theMathematical Institut of Rennes 1 University.
• 1998 to now: INRIA researcher at INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique.
• 1999 : sojourn of 8 months in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Duke University.

Research interests

• Simulation methods
  • Monte Carlo methods and applications
  • Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and applications
• queuing analysis with application to telecommunications (DiffServ...)
• Petri net modeling
• Pricing the Internet

Current projects

• ANR Réseaux du futur CAPTURES.
• Participation to mini-projcet AMESA (Analysis of MEchanisms for Sponsored search Auctions) within Euro-NF, 2009-2010.
• Participation to mini-project PRECO (Pricing and Regulation in Competitive Telecommunication Networks) within Euro-NF, 2008-2009.
• Associated Team MOCQUASIN with the University of de Montreal.
• Network of excellence EuroNF.
• ANR Télécommunications: WINEM: WIMAX Network Engineering and Multihoming, 2006-2008.
• France Telecom: pricing (competition and bundles offers).
• ECONTEL (EU COST Activity IS0605): French national delegate and project coordinator.
• Participation to the research action {\it SELF OPTIMIZING WIRELESS NETWORKS}, in the framework of the joint laboratory INRIA- Alcatel Lucent, for a PhD thesis titled ``Evolution towards auto-configuration of pricing and resource planning" (2008-...).
• Région Bretagne contract (ARED): rare event simulation with applications in telecommunications, 2008-2011.

Past projects

• Participation in mini-project CAP (COMPETITION AMONG PROVIDERS IN THE ACCESS NETWORK ) within EuroFGI, 2007-2008.
• Network of excellence EuroFGI.
• ARC RARE, 2006-2007.
• ARC IFANY, 2006-2007.
• Bilateral collaboration ISAT Auckland (Nez-Zealand) on pricing issues, 2006-2007.
• ACI sé SURE-PATHS, 2003-2006.
• Program ECOS Sud (Uruguay) 2004-2006: The Internet as a network ofconvergence, with the University of Montevideo.
• Program FQNRT/INRIA, with the University of Montreal: rare events simulation, 2006.
• Coordinator of the ARC PRIXNET, 2003-2004.
• Participation ARC TCP, 2002-2004.
• Network of excellence EuroNGI.
• Coordinator of mini-project AUCTIONS within EuroNGI, 2005.
• Action INRIA, Hybrid Quasi-Monte Carlo methods and applications in finance and telecommunications, 2005.
• Sofreten: amanysis of non-Markovian highly reliable systems by simulation.
• Cril Telecom Software: CDMA coverage algorithms in UMTS networks.
• DGA: Plan d'étude ammont on network security for broadband networks.