PRIMaTE

Besma Khalfoun (Université de Lyon) has been a PhD student of Sonia Ben Mokhtar and Sara Bouchenak in the DRIM team of LIRIS - INSA Lyon Since November 2019. She also obtained her engineering degree from Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique (ESI) in Algeria. Her area of interests are distributed systems and privacy preserving applications.

Manuel Nieke (Technische Universität Braunschweig) has been working as a research assistant in the group of Rüdiger Kapitza since 2018. He obtained his M.Sc in computer science also at University of Technology Braunschweig. His interests are trusted computing, distributed systems and web technologies.

Subashiny Tanigassalame (Télécom SudParis) has been a PhD student of Gaël Thomas in the Computer Science department of Télécom SudParis since September 2018. She also received her engineering degree (equal to M.Sc) from Télécom SudParis. Her area of interests are distributed systems and high performance computing. Her PhD research topic is “A language to simplify the development of privacy-preserving applications”.

Prof. Dr. Sonia Ben Mokhtar (Université de Lyon) is a CNRS researcher at the LIRIS lab since October 2009. Since 2017, she is also the leader of the distributed systems and information retrieval group (DRIM). Before joining CNRS, she was a research associate at University College London (UCL) for two years, working with Licia Capra. She received her PhD in 2007 from University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), which she did under the supervision of Valérie Issarny and Nikolaos Georgantas in the former INRIA ARLES project-team (currently MiMove).

Prof. Dr. Sara Bouchenak (Université de Lyon) is Professor of Computer Science at INSA Lyon. She is the Academic Program Chair of the "Cloud Computing - Distributed and Parallel Systems" program at the Department of Computer Science of INSA Lyon (fifth year). She is a member of the LIRIS laboratory, DRIM research group, where she conducts research on dependable, trustworthy and highly available distributed computer systems. Prior to that, Sara Bouchenak was Associate Professor at University of Grenoble until 2014, a visiting professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 2009/2010, an associate researcher at EPFL, Switzerland, in 2003, and a Ph.D. and associate researcher at INRIA until 2002. Sara Bouchenak is a member of ACM and IEEE. She received her HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) from University of Grenoble I in 2010, and her PhD in computer science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in 2001.

Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza (Technische Universität Braunschweig) is a professor at the Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig. There he leads the Distributed Systems Group of the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networking since January, 2012. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Sciences, University of Erlangen- Nuremberg in 2001 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 until 2011 he led the Distributed Systems Group at the Department of Computer Sciences 4, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as assistant professor. Since his time as PhD student he has lead project work at the national level. First in the DFG-funded AspectIX project, next shortly after finishing his PhD as a principal investigator in REFIT, DanceOS, and recently BATS. DanceOS is a project of the DFG priority program 1500 with multiple partners, whereas BATS is an interdisciplinary research group composed of researchers from computer sciences, electrical engineering, and biology. At the EU-level he leads TUB in the Horizon2020 project SERECA. Rüdiger Kapitza is author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, steering committee member of the IFIP DAIS conference, program committee member of numerous venues including IEE EDCC, ACM/Usenix Middleware and ACM EuroSys.

Prof. Dr. Gaël Thomas (Télécom SudParis) has been professor at Télécom SudParis since 2014. His research focuses on virtualization, operating systems, concurrency and language runtimes. His main field of interest is to improve the performance, the design and the safety of the systems. He is a part of the Samovar laboratory and of the HP2 team of the computer science department, which concentrates on high-performance computing and systems. After having been the chair of the french chapter of the ACM SIGOPS from 2011 to 2014, he was treasurer from 2014 to 2016. He received his PhD degree in 2005 and his "Habilitation à diriger les recherche" in 2015 from UPMC Sorbonne Université. He was associate professor at UPMC Sorbonne Université, in the LIP6 laboratory from 2006 to 2014. He also performed postdoctoral research at the Université de Grenoble “Joseph Fourier” in 2005.

Vasily Sartakov (Technische Universität Braunschweig) received an Engineering degree from the Cybernetic department of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. Since the beginning of 2017, he has been working as a researcher at the Institute for Operating Systems and Computer Networks of Braunschweig University of Technology. Prior to joining the IBR, he was leading the R&D company "ksys labs" for 6 years which was involved in various research and development projects in the area of microkernel operating systems.

Colin Wulf (Université de Lyon) is a PhD student working with Sonia Ben Mokhtar and Sara Bouchenak since 2018. He received his M.Sc. in computer science at the University of Technology Braunschweig in 2017. His research interests are trusted computing and distributed systems, as well as privacy preserving systems.