Lead Scientists

Eric Anquetil received his engineering degree from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in 1993 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes 1 in 1997. Currently he is professor in the department of computer science at INSA in Rennes. He is the head of the IntuiDoc research group at the IRISA laboratory. His research interests include pattern recognition, fuzzy logic, handwriting recognition and pen-based interaction. In 2005, he created the company EVODIA with 3 team members. He is member of the board of GRCE (french-speaking association on handwriting recognition and document analysis) and member of steering committee of LOUSTIC Laboratory.
http://www.irisa.fr/intuidoc/equipe/anquetil/

Michel BanAtre  is Directeur de Recherche at INRIA-Rennes. He is the scientific leader of the ACES research group. He did major contributions :
• on stable transactionnal virtual memory to build fault tolerant multiprocessor architectures,
• Spontaneous Spatial Information systems to implement ambient  computing application,
• Java processor and system architecture for appliances,
• "physical coupled object" concept and its application to  security/safety properties implementation.
Most of these researches provided strong transfert/industrial results : (I) long term strategic partnerships with worldwide companies (TI, Alcatel-Lucent, EDF), (II) creation of TI Java research center in Rennes (2003), which became an independant spin-off  (flexicore) in 2007, (III) creation of the INRIA start-up SenseYou (2008) related to ambient computing and security.
http://www.irisa.fr/prive/banatre

FranÇois Chaumette was graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique, Nantes, France, in 1987. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Université de Rennes 1, France, in 1990. Since 1990, he has been with INRIA at IRISA in Rennes where he is now head of the Lagadic group (http://www.irisa.fr/lagadic). His research interests include robotics and computer vision, especially visual servoing and active perception.
Dr. Chaumette received the AFCET/CNRS Prize for the best French thesis in automatic control in 1991. He also received with Ezio Malis the 2002 King-Sun Fu Memorial Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Paper Award. He has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics from 2001 to 2005 and is now in the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Robotics Research.
http://www.irisa.fr/lagadic/team/Francois.Chaumette-eng.html

Bernard Cousin is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rennes 1.
He received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Paris 6 and his HdR from the University of Bordeaux 1.
He is at the head of a research group on networking at IRISA laboratory. He is the co-author of network technology books: "IPV6" (Fourth edition, O'Reilly, 2006) and "Optical Access Networks and Advanced Photonics" (IGI Press, 2009).
His current research interests include all-optical networks, dependable networking, high speed networks, traffic engineering, multicast routing, network QoS management, network security and multimedia distributed applications.
www.irisa.fr/prive/bcousin

GEORGES DUMONT has been an associate professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 1994 where he co-funded the mechanical engineering department. He was the scientific head of Bunraku jointed team between IRISA Laboratory and INRIA and is now leading VR4i jointed team between IRISA Laboratory. He is the head of Media and interaction department (MID) at IRISA. In 1987, he graduated in mechanical engineering from the National School of Ponts et Chaussées and received his master in mechanical science from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris, France), then he received his Ph.D. in 1990 at IRISA - Rennes 1 University and his Higher Doctorate (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in 2005. He has worked at Michelin and at EDF as a research engineer on the finite element method.
His interests are in scientific computations for Virtual Reality, in CAD/CAM, in virtual prototyping, in simulation for biomechanics and in haptic feedback.
http://www.irisa.fr/vr4i/Georges.Dumont/

Jean-Marc JÉzÉquel is a Professor at the University of Rennes and the leader of an INRIA research team called Triskell. His interests include model driven software engineering for software product lines, and specificaly component based, dynamically adaptable systems with quality of service constraints, including reliability, performance, timeliness etc. He is the author of several books published by Addison-Wesley and of more than 100 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the steering committees of the AOSD and MODELS conference series. He also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the Journal on Software and System Modeling and the Journal of Object Technology. He received an engineering degree in Telecommunications from ENSTB in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes, France, in 1989.
http://www.irisa.fr/prive/jezequel

Anne-Marie Kermarrec is a senior researcher at INRIA Rennes. She is the head of the ASAP research group and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting grant GOSSPLE (2008-2013). Before joining INRIA in February 2004, she was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge since March 2000. Before that, she graduated
from the University of Rennes (FRANCE) in October 1996.
She has also been researcher in the Computer Systems group of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Her research interests lie in peer to peer systems, gossip-based algorithms, content distribution, social networks and all aspects of Web science.

Dominique Lavenier is a senior CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) researcher and Professor at ENS Cachan, Brittany.
He is currently working in the Symbiose bioinformatics team. He was the recipient of the "Médaille de Bronze" of the French Council for Research CNRS in 1992, and got the French Cray Prize (1996) in algorithm, architecture, and micro-electronic. From August 1999 to August 2000, he has been working in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA. His research interests include hardware design, parallel architecture, bioinformatics, string processing (molecular biology) and signal processing.
http://irisa.lavenier.net/

Olivier Pivert is Full Professor at Enssat (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie) located in Lannion, France.
He leads the research group named Pilgrim, which deals with issues related to imprecision, uncertainty and preferences in database systems. Dr. Pivert received his Ph.D degree in computer science from the University of Rennes (France) in 1991. His research work mainly concerns the extension of relational DBMSs for fuzzy querying and for dealing with uncertain information. He has published over 200 papers in this area in books, peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
http://www.irisa.fr/pilgrim/compositionpilgrim/opivert

Michel Raynal received the doctorat d’Etat degree in computer science from the University of Rennes, France, in 1981. He is currently a professor of computer science in IRISA (CNRS/INRIA/University joint computing research laboratory located in Rennes), where he founded a research group ondistributed algorithms in 1983. His research interests include distributed algorithms, distributed computing systems, and dependability. His main interest lies in the fundamental principles that underlie the design and the construction of distributed computing systems.
He has been the principal investigator of a number of research grants in these areas, and has been invited by many universities all over the world to give lectures and tutorials on distributed algorithms and fault-tolerant distributed computing systems. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He has published more than 115 papers in journals and more than 230 papers in international conferences. He has also written nine books devoted to
parallelism, distributed algorithms, and systems(published by MIT Press, Wiley and Morgan Claypool). He has served in program committees for more than 120 international conferences (including PODC, DISC, ICDCS, DSN, SRDS, etc.) and chaired the program committee of more than 15 int'l conferences. In 2002-2004, he chaired the steering committee leading the DISC symposium series. He has been awarded the IEEE ICDCS Best Paper Award three times in a row : 1999, 2000, and 2001, and the SSS 2009 Best Paper Award. In the recent past he cochaired SIROCCO 2005, ICDCS 2006, OPODIS 2009 and ICDCN 2010.
http://www.irisa.fr/michel.raynal/

Olivier Sentieys joined University of Rennes (ENSSAT) and IRISA Laboratory, France, as a full Professor of Electronics Engineering, in 2002. He is leading the CAIRN research team of IRISA, which is also common to INRIA, ENS Cachan, Univ. Rennes 1 and CNRS. His research activities are in the two complementary fields of embedded systems and signal processing. Roughly, he works firstly on the definition of new system-on-chip architectures, especially the paradigm of reconfigurable systems, and their associated CAD tools, and secondly on some aspects of signal processing like finite arithmetic effects and cooperation in mobile systems. He is the author or coauthor of more than 100 journal publications or published conference papers and holds 5 patents.
Olivier Sentieys received his Ph.D degree in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes 1 in 1993.
http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/olivier.sentieys

AndrÉ Seznec was born in 1959. He joined IRISA/INRIA as a PhD student in 1983. He got a Doctorat ès Sciences in computer sciences from University of Rennes I in june 1987. He joined INRIA Rennes as a researcher in 1986. He was promoted as Research Director at INRIA in 1994 and as Senior Research Director in 2002. He has been leading the CAPS (Compiler Parallel Architecture and Systems) project-team at IRISA/INRIA Rennes from 1994 to 2008. In 2009, he has created the ALF project-team that he is currently leading. From Feb. 1999 to Feb. 2000, Dr Seznec spent a sabbatical year with the VSSAD, Alpha Development Group at Compaq (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts).
Since 1983, André Seznec has focused his research on computer architecture. He initially worked on supercomputer architectures targeting scientific applications. In collaboration with other members of his team, Dr Seznec has been working on software projects for enabling high performance or architecture simulation. From 2002, in collaboration with an expert in cryptography, he has designed an unpredictable random number generator. Since 1991, André Seznec main research activity has ported on the architecture of microprocessors. He has made major contributions on pipeline, multithreading and multicores, however his most widely recognized works are on caches structure and branch predictors.
Dr Seznec graduated 15 PhD students. He has published more than 20 papers international journals and 40 papers in the top conference in computer architecture including 13 papers at International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). André Seznec was the general chair of ISCA 2010 in Saint-Malo. In October 2010, Dr Seznec has been awarded an ERC advanced grant, DAL, Defying Amdahl's Law.
http://wwwirisa.fr/alf/seznec

Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et est classée par ordre alphabétique.