Education and Training

since Dec. 2010 Senior Networking Design Engineer. Dust Networks, Inc, Hayward, California.
2009-2010 Postdoctoral Researcher. Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California, campus Berkeley, USA. Collaboration with Prof. Kristofer S.J. Pister.
Fall 2008 Research Engineer. Implementation techniques for Wireless Sensor Network communication protocols at the CITI laboratory, INSA Lyon, France.
2005-2008 PhD candidate. Thesis on Energy-Efficient Self-Organization in Wireless Sensor Networks. This PhD has led to a CIFRE agreement between France Telecom R&D, Meylan, France, and the CITI Laboratory, INSA Lyon, France.
April-August 2008 Visiting Researcher. Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California, campus Berkeley, USA. Collaboration with Prof. Kristofer S.J. Pister.
May 2007 Visiting Researcher. Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Barcelona, Spain. Collaboration with Christian Ibars and Aitor del Coso.
2004-2005 Masters degree ("Master Recherche" in French) in Informatics, specialized in Networking, Telecommunications and Services, INSA Lyon, France. This degree has led to a 6-month internship at the CITI Laboratory, INSA Lyon, on Real-Time Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks. Final mark 16.57/20, rated ("mention" in French) very good.
2001-2005 Masters degree ("Diplôme d'Ingénieur" in French) in Telecommunications, Services and Uses at INSA Lyon. Ranked 3rd over 75. I received my diploma with honors ("Félicitations" in French).
2003-2004 One year academic exchange at Tec de Monterrey (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), campus Monterrey, Mexico. Final score 97%.
2000 Baccalauréat S (equivalent to an A-level, specialized in Science), at the Lycée Français St-Exupéry, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Score 14.69/20, rated ("mention" in French) Good.

Science Citizenship

Volunteering - Member of the Texas Instruments Expert Advisory Panel, 2010.
- Member of the IEEE since March 2006 .
- Member of the IEEE Region 8 Membership Activities Committee as Electronic Communications Coordinator between January 2007 and December 2008 .
- Member of the IEEE Region 8 Student Activities Committee as Awards and Contests Coordinator between October 2006 and December 2008 .
- Member of the IEEE Region 8 Awards and Recognition Committee as Student Activities Committee Representative between October 2006 and December 2008 .
- Member of the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (since November 2007) .
- Chair of the IEEE Student Branch Grand Lyon between September 2006 and January 2007 .
- ACM EuroSys member in 2006 .
Organization - General co-Chair of the Hands-on Workshop on Networking Wireless Inertial Sensors , co-located with the Berkeley Sensors and Actuator Center's IAB , September 15-17, 2010, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Organization Committee member of the Robot Fair, 11 July 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA .
- Publicity Chair of the International Workshop on Simulators for Wireless Networks (SWiN) 2008, part of IEEE WiMob 2008 .
- Web Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2008, Cannes, France, 14-18 September, 2008 .
- Publity Chair for First International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SIMUTools) 2008, Marseille, France, 3-7 March, 2008 .
- Web Chair for Second International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) 2007, Florence, Italy, June 11-13, 2007 .
- Organization Committee member of the IRAMUS Workshop, Val Thorens, France, January 25-26, 2007 .
- Staff Chair of 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) 2006, Paris, France, November 7-10, 2006 .
- IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD Congress (SBC) 2006, Paris, France, August 31 - September 3, 2006 .
Project Reviewing - Book proposal reviewer for (Wiley), 2011.
- Project Proposal reviewer for the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), May 2009.
- Project Proposal reviewer for the Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico (Fondecyt) de la Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, Chile, September 2010.
Panel - Panel Member on "Vehicular Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks", 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV), Washington D.C., USA, 6 April 2009 .
Editorial Duties - Member of the Editorial Board of IET Journal on Wireless Sensor Systems .
TPC Member - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2011, 2007 Spring, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks track .
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN) 2011 .
- International Conference on Intelligent Snesors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2010 .
- International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN) 2010, part of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2010 .
- IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS) 2010 .
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2010, Wireless and Mobile Networking Symposium .
- IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2009 .
- Third International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS) 2009 .
- Fourth International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (VALUETOOLS), Performance Methodologies and Tools for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNPerf) workshop, 2009 .
- Workshop on Advanced Wireless Broadband Networks (AWBN) 2009 , held in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2009 .
- Second International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN) 2009, part of ICCCN 2009.
- International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2009, Wireless Sensor Networks Symposium.
- International Workshop on Cross Layer Design (IWCLD) 2009.
- First International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN) 2008, in conjunction with ICCCN 2008 .
- International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2008, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks track .
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009, Wireless Networking Symposium .
- Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM) 2008 .
- Workshop on Radio Resource Management in Wireless Mesh Networks (RRMinMesh) 2008, held in conjunction with the 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) .
- 7th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net) 2008 .
- IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2008, Mobile and Wireless Networks track .
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008, Wireless Networking Symposium .
- First International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM) 2007 .
- International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) 2007, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks track .
- Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2007 .
- International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) 2006 .
- Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks: moving towards applications (WiMeshNets) 2006 .
Journal Reviewer - EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking WCN , 2010.
- Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 2007, 2010 .
- Sensors , 2010, 2009.
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC, 2009, 2010.
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS, 2009.
- Measurement, Science and Technology MST , 2010.
- IEEE Communication Letters , 2009, 2010.
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC, 2009.
- Elsevier Information Sciences (INS, 2009.
- Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCM, 2009.
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC, Special Issue on Simple Wireless Sensor Networking Solutions, 2009.
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2009.
- IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials , 2009.
- International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN) , special issue on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2009.
- Elsevier Performance Evaluation (PEVA), 2009.
- Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONE), 2009.
- Elsevier Computer Communications (ComCom), 2009.
- International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS), 2008.
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2008 .
- Springer Telecommunication Systems Journal, 2008 .
- Annals of Telecommunications, 2007, 2008 .
- ACM International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), 2007 .
Conference Reviewer - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010.
- [French] 14eme Colloque francophone sur l'Ingenierie des Protocols (CFIP) 2009 .
- 16th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) 2009 .
- 3rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2007 .
- 4th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA) 2007 .
- European Wireless (EW) 2007 .
- IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) 2007 .
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2007 .
- 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) 2006 .
- 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2006 .
- International Conference on Late Advances in Networks (ICLAN) 2006 .
- Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium (IWCMC) 2006 .
Participation - ARM Technology Conference (ARM TechCon), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 9-11 November 2010 .
- IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Miami, Florida, USA, 6-10 Decembre 2010 .
- 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, 26-30 September 2010 .
- Lightfair International (LFI) 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 12-14 May 2010 .
- IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC), Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April 2010 .
- IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Honolulu, Hawaii, 30 November-4 Decembre 2009 .
- Sprint Open Developper Conference, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 26-28 October 2009 .
- 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular networks (WEEDEV), Washington D.C., USA, 6 April 2009 .
- IETF 74, San Francisco, CA, USA, 23-27 March 2009.
- IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 21-24 September 2008 .
- International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Lapland, Finland, 8-11 September 2008 .
- IEEE Region 8 Student Branch Congress (SBC), London, United Kingdom, 29-31 August 2008 .
- 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Santorini Island, Greece, 11-14 june 2008 .
- IEEE Region 8 Committee meetings, Belgrade, Serbia, 13-15 October 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 14-15, 2007, Bucharest, Romania, 12-14 October, 2007, Malta, 26-27 April, 2008, Québec City, 18-19 September, 2008 .
- IEEE Region 8 Awards and Recognition subcommittee meeting (IEEE ARC-R8), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 1-3 February 2008.
- RECAP Workshops (Nice, November 8-9 2005 , Rennes, March 9-10 2006 , Lyon, November 16-17 2006 , Montpellier, November 22-23 2007 ).
- ResCom days (Nice, November 9-10 2005 , Paris, September 25-26 2006 , Paris, March 15-16 2007 , Toulouse, September 20-21 2007 ).
- IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee (WTC) meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 29 November 2007 .
- IEEE Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSNTC) meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 27 November 2007 .
- 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2007, Washington, DC, USA, 26-30 November 2007 .
- IEEE EDS Mini-Colloquium: Nanoelectronic Devices, Present and Perspectives (NADE), Sinaia, Romania, 14 October 2007 .
- Annual IEEE ICT and Engineering Students Exhibition, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-15 September 2007 .
- 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2007, Athens, Greece, 3-7 September 2007 .
- ResCom Summer Schools (Île de Porquerolles, June 11-16, 2006 , Calcatoggio, Corsica, France, June 16-23, 2007 ).
- Second International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) 2007, Florence, Italy, June 11-13, 2007 .
- IEEE United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland UKRI Student Congress 2007, York, United Kingdom, 1-3 June, 2007 .
- IRAMUS Workshop, Val Thorens, France, January 25-26, 2007 .
- 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) 2006 Paris, France, November 7-10, 2006 .
- Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingénierie des Protocoles (CFIP) 2006, Tozeur, Tunisia, October 30 - November 3, 2006 .
- IEEE Student Branch and GOLD Congress (SBC) 2006, Paris, France, August 31 - September 3, 2006 .
- Summer School on Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (Senzations), Novi Sad, Serbia, July 31 - August 4, 2006.
- IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) 2006, New York, USA, June 28-30, 2006 .
- First ACM International Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (InterSense) 2006, Nice, France, May 30-31, 2006 .
- ACM EuroSys 2006, Leuven, Belgium, April 20-21, 2006 . Grant obtained from ACM SigOps France .
- IRAMUS meetings (Lyon, September 15, 2006, Lille, March 23, 2006) .
- IEEE Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) 2005, Atlanta, USA, September 2005 .
- RECAP meetings (Lyon, March 10, 2005, Montreuil-sur-Mer, June 13, 2005) .
- ING Summer School Montreuil-sur-Mer, June 13-17, 2005 .

Professional Experience

Fall 2008 Research Engineer at the CITI Laboratory (INSA Lyon, France). Communication protocol implementation on wireless sensors.
2005-2008 Research Enginneer at France Telecom R&D Grenoble.
2005-2008 Teaching at the Telecommunications department at INSA Lyon. Subjects: network administration, provisioning and deployment, optimization. Advisor of 7 graduate students.
Summer-Fall 2004 16 week engineering internship at, SOFREGAZ, Clichy, France. I interconnected the networks of several sites working on a same project using a VPN-based solution, and co-supervised the migration of the 250-wide computer network to a Windows XP environment.
Spring 2004 I developed an e-trade web site for ARVA, Information Solutions , Monterrey, Mexico. This company now uses it to sell computer components to its customers. Ordering, stock administration and follow-up it done using the web interface I developed.

Languages

Dutch Mother tongue.
French Bilingual.
English Bilingual. Postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley since spring 2009. 4 months stay at the University of California at Berkeley (Summer 2008). TOEIC, score 965/990 (2005).
Spanish Fluent. One month visiting researcher in Spain (2007). One year academic exchange in Mexico (2003-2004). DELE nivel Básico (2003).
Portguese Conversational. Studied during academic years 2002-2003 and 2004-2005.