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Announcement: I currently have openings for 2 Post-Docs and 2 PhD students with a strong background in systems. Strong potential applicants at the master’s level are also encouraged to apply. These positions are funded.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Software and IT Engineering Department at ÉTS Montréal / University of Québec. I hold the Marcelle-Gauvreau Engineering Research Chair on Applications and Services in Edge Computing.

Prior to joining ÉTS, I was appointed as a NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). I worked under the advisement of Dr Karthik Pattabiraman, in the Dependable Systems Lab. As part of my post-doctoral appointment, I led the design and development of ThingsJS, a new and innovative research project which aims at proposing a comprehensive high-level framework for building highly distributed, flexible, dependable and error-resilient IoT applications. SmartJS is a multidisciplinary project that has links to several research disciplines such as software and systems engineering, networking, dependability, security, cloud computing and programming languages.

Prior to joining UBC, I completed a PhD in Computer Science in the Distributed Information Systems Lab and in the Software Engineering Lab at McGill University. I worked under the advisement of Dr Bettina Kemme and Dr Jörg Kienzle. My research revolved mainly around the area of large-scale distributed and Cloud systems, with a particular emphasis on performance evaluation and optimization.

My main research interests are centered around the following topics:

  • Cloud Computing
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Software & Systems Engineering
  • Software Reliability, Security and Fault Tolerance
  • Publish/Subscribe Systems
  • Large-Scale Distributed-Systems
  • Multiplayer & Large-Scale Online Games
  • Scalability and Load Balancing
  • Latency and Bandwidth Optimization
  • Mobile Applications and Devices

For more information about my current work, please have a look at my research projects using the left menu, as well as my publications.

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