Eric Rutten

I am an INRIA researcher at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes.
I lead the Inria team Ctrl-A.

My main research interest is in the model-based control of autonomic, adaptive and reconfigurable computing systems, also called feedback computing.

I use tools from discrete control theory, particularly discrete controller synthesis, for the correct design of closed-loop management of resources and energy, e.g. in mobile devices and of fault recovery.
I encapsulate these automated formal techniques into programming environments, model-oriented like the BZR reactive language, or domain-oriented like the component-based Architecture Description Language (ADL) Ctrl-F.
I integrate them in model-based software engineering methodologies, to contribute to the spreading of their concrete use.
The approach is explored at different levels:

• in software, at the levels of application adaptation or for administration control-loops:
  • in relation with software component-based models like FRACTAL and the Frascati middleware,
  • in HPC runtimes, to dynamically adapt parallelism vs. synchronization, in Software Transactional Memory systems, in the Labex Persyval project HPES (2013-2016)
  • in the context of system administration loops in green data-centers, in the ANR project Ctrl-Green (2011-2015)
  • in relation with Real-Time Operating Systems for control applications (e.g. Orccad)
• in Dynamically Partially Reconfigurable (DPR) architectures, like typically in hardware platforms based on FPGA : this was first in the context of the ANR project FAMOUS (2009-2013) and now in the ANR project HPeC (2015-2019).

Previously, I worked on these topics in the Control group, which I was leading, in the Sardes team.

PhDs and post-doc colleagues, present and past:

• Adja Sylla, PhD (CEA) 2015-2018
• Naoweiluo Zhou, PhD 2013-2016
• Frederico Alvares, post-doc, 2013-2015 [ARS15a] [ARS15b]
  (then post-doc, at Inria/Ecole des Mines, Nantes)
• Julio Cano, post-doc, 2013-2014 [CDRBG14] [CDR14]
  (then post-doc, at U. Porto)
• Nicolas Berthier, post-doc 2012-2013
  (then post-doc, at INRIA Rennes)
• Mengxuan Zhao, PhD 2012-2015 [ZPAR14] [ZPRA13]
  (then engineer at EGobalMark)
• Soguy Geye, PhD 2011-2014 [DGR15] [DGRP14] [GPRTB14] [GPRTB14] [GPRTH13] [GPR13] [DGPMR13] [GRT12] [GPR12]
  (then post-doc, at UJF / LIG)
• Tayeb Bouhadina, post-doc 2010-2011 [BSDR11]
  (then post-doc, at Verimag; then at Mentor Graphics)
• Xin An, PhD 2010-2013 [AGR14] [ARDLG13] [AGR12] [AGR11]
• Sébastien Guillet, PhD 2009-2012 [OGRBDG15] [GLRGD14] [GLLRDG12] [GLLRDG12b] [GLRGD10]
  (then post-doc, at U. Quebec)
• Gwenael Delaval, post-doc 2009-2010 [DR10b] [DR07]
  (then Assistant Prof. at U. Grenoble 1)
• Huafeng Yu, PhD 2005-2008 [QYGRMD10]
  (then post-doc at INRIA Rennes)
• Ouassila Labbani, PhD 2004-2006 [LDBR07]
  (then Assistant Prof. at U. Dijon)
• Abdoulaye Gamatie, post-doc 2005-2006 [GRYBD08]
  (then CNRS at LIFL Lille)
• Emil Dumitrescu, post-doc 2003-2004 [DGR04]
  (then Assistant Prof. at INSA Lyon)
• Karine Altisen, post-doc 2001-2002 [ACMR03]
  (then Assistant Prof. with ENSIMAG, at Verimag)
• Fernando Jimenez, PhD 1998-2001 [J01]
  (then Assistant Prof. in Mexico)
• Jean-Rene Beauvais, PhD 1996-1999 [B01]
  (then industry)