fltr: Natalia, Diego, Blaz, Raphael, Malisa, Yuxuan, Geovane, Ichrak, Trifun, Martina, Thomas, Elsa, Alexandre, Said, Romain, Anne, Sara. Taken on 13-Feb-2024.
Faculty
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Mališa Vučinić (team lead) Faculty, Inria Starting Faculty Position (ISFP), Inria-AIO since 01-Oct-2020 (previously SRP 01-Oct-2018 – 30-Sep-2020) (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 41 40 malisa.vucinic@inria.fr @malisavucinic |
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Filip Maksimovic Faculty, Starting Research Position (SRP), Inria-AIO since 01-Feb-2021 (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 41 33 filip.maksimovic@inria.fr |
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Paul Muhlethaler Faculty, Research Director (DR), Inria-AIO (p) +33 (0)1 39 63 52 78 paul.muhlethaler@inria.fr |
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Thomas Watteyne Faculty, Senior Research Director (DR1), Inria-AIO since 01-Oct-2022 On Sabbatical between 01-Sep-2024 and 31-Aug-2025 (previously SRP 01-Jan-2015 – 31-Dec-2017, ARP 01-Jan-2018 – 30-Sep-2019, DR2 01-Oct-2019 – 30-Sep-2022) (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 41 35 (m) +33 (0)7 83 08 34 97 thomas.watteyne@inria.fr www.thomaswatteyne.com @thomaswatteyne |
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Branko Kerkez Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan Inria International Chair, AIO team, 2023-2028 bkerkez@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bkerkez/ |
Team Assistant
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Anne Mathurin Team Assistant (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 40 37 anne.mathurin@inria.fr |
Project Manager
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Clotilde Monnet Project Manager, Horizon Europe OpenSwarm (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 41 45 clotilde.monnet@inria.fr |
Postdoc
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Jonathan Oostvogels Postdoctoral Research Lead, between the DistriNet Research Unit at KU Leuven and Inria-AIO team since 28-Aug-2024. Research Topic: RF Symbol-Synchronous Buses |
Research Engineers
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Diego Badillo San Juan Research Engineer (01-Oct-2024 – 31-Mar-2026) Research Topic: High Density and High Throughput Wireless Networks |
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Alfonso Cortés Research Engineer (01-August-2024 – 31-July-2027) Research Topic: SDMote |
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Geovane Fedrecheski Research Engineer (1-Apr-2023 – 30-Apr-2026) (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 41 88 geovane.fedrecheski@inria.fr Research Topic: zero-touch security |
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Alexandre Abadie Research Engineer (1-Sep-2022 – 31-Aug-2026) alexandre.abadie@inria.fr Research Topic: DotBot, an easy-to-use micro-robot for education and research purposes |
PhD Students
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Romain Facq PhD Student (1-Oct-2024 – 30-Sep-2027) Research Topic: FANET for Vehicles Swarms Advisors: Olivier Sentieys (Inria-AIO), Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) romain.facq@inria.fr |
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Corentin Gautier PhD Student (1-Mar-2024 – 26-Avr-2027) corentin.gautier@inria.fr Research Topic: FANET for Vehicles Swarms Advisors: Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO), Cedric Adjih (Inria-TRIBE) |
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Elsa Lopez-Perez PhD Student (1-Nov-2023 – 31-Oct-2026) elsa.lopez-perez@inria.fr Research Topic: Availability of Constrained Wireless Networks Advisors: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO), Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO) |
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Yuxuan Song PhD Student (1-Oct-2023 – 30-Sep-2026) yuxuan.song@inria.fr Research Topic: Remote Attestation for IoT Swarms Advisors: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO), Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Martina Balbi PhD Student (9-Jan-2023 – 8-Jan-2026) Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO), Lance Doherty (Analog Devices) |
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Fabian Graf PhD Student (1-Jan-2023 – 31-Dec-2025) Research Topic: Application Performance Management of Smart Field Devices for the Industrial Internet of Things Advisors: Michael Villnow (Siemens), Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Sara Faour PhD Student (1-Nov-2022 – 30-Oct-2025) sara.faour@inria.fr Research Topic: Temperature Sensitive Anomaly Detection for Crystal-Free Networks Advisors: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO), Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO) |
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Said Alvarado-Marin PhD Student (1-Apr-2022 – 31-Jul-2025) (p) +33 1 80 49 41 39 said-alexander.alvarado-marin@inria.fr Research Topic: Communication-Aware Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems Advisors: Filip Maksimovic (Inria-AIO), Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Felix Marcoccia PhD Student, under a CIFRE agreement with Thales (1-Apr-2022 – 31-Mar-2025) felix.marcoccia@inria.fr Research Topic: Study of MANET Solutions for a Radio Communication System based on Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Advisors: Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO), Victor Fagoo (Thales) |
Undergraduate Student Researchers
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Fernanda Vera Student at Universidad de Concepción (06-Jan-2025 – 28-Mar-2025) Advisor: Alexandre Abadie (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: Augmenting the DotBot Swarm Robot with AI Capabilities |
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Claudio Alonso Fernández Cavieres Student at Universidad de Concepción (06-Jan-2025 – 28-Mar-2025) Advisor: Filip Maksimovic (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (EDHOC) on FPGA |
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Narmin Elkilani Student at ESIEE (23-Sep-2024 – 22-Sep-2027) Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: Inria Museum |
Associate Researchers
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Trifun Savic Head of IoT, Falco / Wattson Elements |
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Selma Boumerdassi Associate Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) Research Topic: security and localization in ad-hoc networks |
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Samia Bouzefrane Associate Professor, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) Currently in Délégation from CNAM Research Topic: virtualization |
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Mohamed Elhadad Senior Researcher in Cybersecurity, IRT SystemX, France Research Topics: Low-latency V2X communication, V2X security based on self-learning, Intrusion detection for Named Data Networking (NDN) using reinforcement learning (Q learning) Collaboration with: Paul Muhlethaler mohamed.elhadad@irt-systemx.fr |
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Leila Saidane Professor, National School of Computer Science (ENSI), Tunisia Director, CRISTAL research laboratory, University of Manouba, Tunisia Research Topic: analytical study of network performance |
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Xavi Vilajosana Principal Investigator, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Research Topic: 6TiSCH, OpenWSN and OpenMote Joint Research Project: H2020 F-Interop, F-Lora open-call project Collaboration with: Thomas Watteyne xvilajosana.org |
Alumni
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Romain Facq Research Engineer (1-Oct-2022 – 30-Sep-2024) romain.facq@inria.fr |
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Chloe Riviere Student at ESIROI, Université de La Réunion (01-Jul-2024 – 31-Aug-2024) Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: IoT at the Inria Museum |
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Natalia Gallego Castrillón intern from ENSTA-Paris (01-June-2024 – 31-Aug-2024) Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: DECT NR+ |
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Ichrak Kallala Research Engineer (1-Apr-2023 – 30-Sep-2024) (p) +33 (0)1 80 49 45 64 ichrak.kallala@inria.fr Research Topic: CHIC: Automated SCHC Rule Generation |
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Sharika S intern from IIT Gandhinagar (13-May-2024 – 14-Jul-2024) Advisor: Filip Maksimovic (Inria-AIO) |
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Raphaël Simoes Research Engineer (1-Jan-2024 – 30-Jun-2024) Research Topic: High Density and High Throughput Wireless Networks |
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Karol Blaszczyszyn intern from Sorbonne Universite (27-May-2024 – 27-June-2024) Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Soumya Banerjee Director, Research & Innovation Trasna-Solutions Ltd., Ireland (Irish Research Council CONNECT), Research Fellow University College Cork, Ireland, Co-Founder Must B2B & Principal Architect (ML) Paris, France Research Topic: CHIC Collaboration with: Paul Muhlethaler |
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Martin Coutrot Parrot intern from Lycée Eugène Delacroix (03-Jun-2024 – 14-Jun-2024) Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) Research Topic: RoboMaster swarm robots (see video!) |
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Blaz Korecic Amador intern from Universidad de Chile (8-Jan-2024 – 5-Apr-2024) Research Topic: Hardware Security for Chip-scale Wireless Systems Advisor: Filip Maksimovic (Inria-AIO) |
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Diego Alonso Badillo San Juan intern from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (8-Jan-2024 – 29-Mar-2024) Research Topic: Wind Sensor for an Autonomous Sailing Vessel Advisor: Malisa Vucinic (Inria-AIO) |
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Arsène Lasgouttes High-school intern from Collège Roland Dorgelès (5-Feb-2024 – 9-Feb-2024) Research Topic: SailBot wind sensor Advisor: Malisa Vucinic (Inria-AIO) |
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Hadrien Sallanon High-school intern from Collège Buffon (15-Jan-2024 – 19-Jan-2024) Research Topic: DotBot scratch integration Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Filip Ivanišević High-school intern from Janson de Sailly (18-Dec-2023 – 22-Dec-2023) Research Topic: AIOT Academy Advisor: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO) |
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Trifun Savic PhD Student, under a CIFRE agreement with Falco / Wattson Elements (1-Oct-2020 – 30-Sep-2023) (p) +33 1 80 49 45 77 trifun.savic@inria.fr Research Topic: Localization in Constrained Environments Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO), Keoma Brun-Laguna (Falco / Wattson Elements) |
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Eloi Joyeux Student at the Lycee Technique Prive Saint-Nicolas Paris, visiting Inria (12-Jun-2023 – 23-Jun-2023) Research Topic: DotBot chassis Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Fabrice Sivakumar Student at the Polytech Sorbonne University, visiting Inria (1-Jun-2023 – 31-Jul-2023) Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Marion Seychelles Student at ESIROI, Université de La Réunion (1-May-2023 – 31-Aug-2023) marion.seychelles@inria.fr Research Topic: Designing an indoor comfort module Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Raul de la Fuente Student at the Unversity of Chile, visiting Inria (9-Jan-2023 – 7-Apr-2023) Research Topic: open-source platform for IoT education Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Razanne Abu Aisheh PhD Student, under a CIFRE agreement with Nokia Bell Labs (4-Dec-2019 – 28-Feb-2023) razane.abu-aisheh@inria.fr Research Topic: Context-Aware Information Gathering and Processing Towards Supporting Autonomous Systems in Industry 4.0 Scenarios Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO), Lou Salaun (Nokia Bell Labs), Francesco Bronzino (ENS Lyon) |
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Amare Abane Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Computer Network Researcher at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Collaboration with: Paul Muhlethaler |
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Nadjib Achir Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Associate Professor, University Paris XIII |
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Philippe Jacquet Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Department Head, Applied Mathematics, Alcatel-Lucent Research Topic: protocols and modeling |
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Anis Laouiti Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Associate Professor, Telecom Sud-Paris Research Topic: protocols for VANETs and sensors dissemination |
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Dana Marinca Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Associate Professor, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Research Topic: learning techniques |
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Nadjib Ait Saadi Associate Researcher (2015-2022) Associate Professor, University Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) (p) +33 1 41 80 73 10 http://sites.google.com/site/nadjibaitsaadi/ |
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Theo Akbas intern from ENSEA (2-May-2022 – 31-Aug-2022) Research Topic: Automonous Boats Advisor: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO) |
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Cristobal Huidobro-Marin intern from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (1 June – 26 August 2022) Research Topic: Low-Cost Human Motion Tracking Advisor: Filip Maksimovic (Inria-AIO) |
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Charles Thonier intern from ENSTA Paris (7-Mar-2022 – 31=Jul-2022) Research Topic: Turn-Key Sensor-to-Cloud Solutions Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Said Alvarado-Marin Research Engineer (1-Oct-2020 – 31-Mar-2022) FrostForecast joint project with Inria-Chile Research Interests: smart agriculture, constrained wireless, electronics, swarm robotics Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Francois-Xavier Molina Research Engineer (from the TRIBE team at Inria Saclay, working part time at AIO) Research Topic: OpenWSN integration into the RIOT operating system |
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Alfonso Cortés Research Internship during his MsC studies at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (13-Sep-2021 – 7-Dec-2021) Research Topic: Multi-Gateway IoT Network Architectures: Hands-on Benchmarking Advisor: Mališa Vučinić (Inria-AIO), Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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José Astorga Tobar Research Internship during his MsC studies at FCFM Universidad de Chile (6-Sep-2021 – 30-Nov-2021) Research Topic: UWB and AoA Hands-on Survey and Benchmarking Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Felipe Campos Research Internship after his graduation from UC Berkeley (13-Sep-2021 – 10-Oct-2021) Research Topic: DotBot Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Martina Balbi Research Internship during her MsC studies at IMT Atlantique (1-Apr-2021 – 31-Aug-2021) Research Topic: Building a 1,000 Robot Swarm Testbed Advisor: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO) |
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Mina Rady PhD Student, under a CIFRE agreement with Orange Labs (7-Jan-2019 – 6-Jan-2022) Research Topic: Long-range IoT Heterogeneous Mesh Networks Advisors: Thomas Watteyne (Inria-AIO), Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO), Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs), Quentin Lampin (Orange Labs) |
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Timothy Claeys Postdoctoral Researcher (1-Jan-2020 – 30-Apr-2021) Research Topic: IoT Security Advisors: Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne |
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Trifun Savic Research Engineer (1-Feb-2019 – 31-Sep-2020) Research Topic: Subterranean Localization, GeoBot Project Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Jonathan Munoz Postdoctoral Research Engineer (1 April 2019 – 30 September 2020) Research Topic: Subterranean Communication, GeoBot Project Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Keoma Brun-Laguna Postdoctoral Researcher (2019) Associate Director, Systems and Networking, Falco |
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Tengfei Chang Postdoctoral Research Engineer (2016-2020) @TengfeiChang Research Topic: OpenWSN |
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Anna Bednarik Team Assistant (2019-2020) |
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Yasuyuki Tanaka Research Engineer (6-Jan-2018 – 31-Dec-2019) Research Topic: 6TiSCH Distributed Scheduling Advisors: Pascale Minet, Thomas Watteyne |
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Pascale Minet Faculty, Inria-AIO (retired in 2020) http://hipercom.gforge.inria.fr/people/minet/ |
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Camilo Andres Lopez Lopez MSc intern from ENSTA ParisTech (13-May-2019 – 24-Aug-2019) Research Topic: GeoBot project Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Victor Kenichi Nascimento Kobayashi MSc intern from ENSTA ParisTech (13 May – 16 August 2019) Research Topic: 6TiSCH security Advisor: Mališa Vučinić, Thomas Watteyne |
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Ba Hai Le MSc intern from Ecole Polytechnique (1 April – 31 August 2019) Research Topic: GeoBot project Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Nicole Moussa Team Assistant (2018-2019) |
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Miguel Landry Foko Sindjoung Visiting PhD Student from the University of Dschang, Cameroon (1 Mars 2019 – 30 June 2019) miguel-landry.foko-sindjoung@inria.fr Research Topic: Techniques d’apprentissage automatique dans les reseaux de capteurs sans fil Advisor: Pascale Minet |
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Jonathan Munoz PhD Student (1 November 2015 – 31 March 2019) @JonathanMMunozS Research Topic: km-scale Industrial Networking Advisors: Thomas Watteyne, Paul Muhlethaler |
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Keoma Brun-Laguna PhD student (January 2016 – December 2018) Research Topic: Deterministic Networking for the Industrial IoT Advisor: Thomas Watteyne, Pascale Minet |
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Mališa Vučinić Postdoctoral Research Lead Research Topic: Securing the Industrial IoT Advisor: Thomas Watteyne October 2016 – September 2017 |
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Felipe Moran MSc intern from ENSTA ParisTech (1 September 2017 – 31 August 2018), EDF fellow Research Topic: mote feeding habits, SmartMesh IP Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Fabian Rincon Vija MSc intern from ENSTA ParisTech (14 May – 31 August 2018) Research Topic: Extension of F-Interop to IEEE802.15.4 sub-GHz Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Marcelo Augusto Ferreira MSc intern from ENSTA ParisTech (1 May – 31 August 2018) Research Topic: Measuring Energy Consumption in F-Interop Advisor: Thomas Watteyne |
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Kevin Bonny Team Assistant (January 2017- April 2018) |
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Ziran Zhang Postdoctoral Research Lead (Jan 2017-April 2018), Inria@SiliconValley fellow Research Topic: Infrastructure Monitoring in a Smart Marina Environment |
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Remy Leone Postdoctoral Research Engineer (2016-2018) Research Topic: Redefining Interoperability Testing for the Internet of Things |
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Younes Bouchaala PhD student, VeDeCoM (2014-2017) Research Topic: Handling Safety Messages in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) Advisors: Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO), Oyunchimeg Shagdard (Inria-RITS) |
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Nesrine Ben Hassine PhD Student (2014-2017) Research Topic: Distributed Learning Algorithms for Network Resource Management Advisors: Pascale Minet (Inria-AIO), Dominique Barth (UVSQ) |
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Ines Khoufi PhD Student (2012-2015), Postdoctoral Research Engineer (2016-2017) Research Topic: Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks Advisor: Pascale Minet |
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Mohamed Elhadad PhD Student, Telecom SudParis (2013-2016) Research Topic: Radio access control and routing protocols design for VANETs, quality of service modeling Advisors: Anis Laouiti (Telecom Sud-Paris), Paul Muhlethaler (Inria-AIO) |
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Christine Anocq Team Assistant (2009-2016) |
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Erwan Livolant Research Engineer (2011-2016) |
