The paper “Expanders via Local Edge Flips in Quasilinear Time”, by George Giakkoupis, has been accepted at the 54th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2022). Congratulations to George! The paper provides a new analysis for a natural, local edge-flipping process, which shows that starting from any connected regular…
Congratulations to David Bromberg, Davide Frey, and Quentin Dufour for their paper entitled “DONAR: Anonymous VoIP over Tor” accepted at NSDI 2022! Congratulations to their co-author Etienne Rivière from UC Louvain! DONAR is a system enabling anonymous VoIP with good quality of experience (QoE) over Tor. No individual Tor link…
You are cordially invited to attend the PhD defense of Alex Auvolat that will take place on Thursday December 2nd, 2021, at 2pm CET at IRISA in room Métivier. Jury members: Vivien Quéma, Full Professor, Grenoble INP/ENSIMAG Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Senior Researcher, CNRS Martin Kleppmann, Senior Research Associate, University of…
Amaury Bouchra Pilet successfully defended his Ph.D. entitled “Contributions to distributed multi-task machine learning” on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at IRISA/Inria in Rennes. Jury members: Marc TOMMASI, Professor, Université de Lille Giovanni NEGLIA, Research Scientist, Inria, Sophia Antipolis Sara BOUCHENAK, Professor, INSA Lyon, Aurelien BELLET, Research Scientist, Inria, Lille Alexandre…
The WIDE team will hold its 2021 seminar on Oct. 30 – Sept. 1 at Domaine de Saint-Yvieux – 35540 Le Tronchet. Many exciting talks and fascinating discussions are awaiting us! Thursday 09:30 – Arrival + Welcome Coffee 10:00 – Opening (François) 10:15 – Séance 1 Scientific Talks (1h30) Erwan:…
The WIDE team is delighted to welcome his newest permanent member: Djob Mvondo has just joined us since 1st September as “Maître de Conférence” (covering the span from Assistant to Associate Professor). Prior to his recruitment in Rennes, Djob obtained his PhD from the LIG laboratory of the University of…
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the 10th Inria Workshop On Systems (WOS10) that will take place on October 12th 2021 (full day) at Inria Rennes (Rennes, Beaulieu Campus, https://osm.org/go/eri2dm6pB?m=) and online. The program includes: Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, on Green Computing Romain Rouvoy, Univ. Lille: How green is your cloud:…
The Coronasurveys team (https://coronasurveys.org/) led by Antonio Fernandez from IMDEA, and involving Davide Frey from the WIDE team, received an honorable mention in the XPrize Pandemic Response Challenge. They developed forecasting methods for the number of COVID-19 cases based on the impact of governmental measures. Congratulation to everyone involved! Press-Release…
You are cordially invited to attend the PhD defense of Quentin Dufour that will be held online on February 24 at 4pm. The defense can be followed from the player below: Jury members : Ian GOLDBERG, Full Professor, Université de Waterloo, Canada Rüdiger KAPITZA, Full Professor, Université de Braunschweig, Allemagne…
The paper Efficient Randomized DCAS, a joint work by George Giakkoupis (WIDE), Mehrdad Jafari Giv and Philipp Woelfel (University of Calgary, Canada) has been accepted at the 53rd ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC 2021). Double-Compare-And-Swap (DCAS) is a tremendously useful shared-memory synchronization primitive, which is also notoriously difficult…
