Swiss and French
Married with 2 kids
Living in Switzerland
Research, Teaching and Entrepreneurship
Welcome to my personal website where you will find information about my current and past professional activities. My core interests focus on research, teaching and entrepreneurship activities around emerging digital transition aspects covering the Internet of Things, Edge Cloud, Cellular Networks, Augmented reality, distributed systems and Machine Learning. I have a strong teaching background in academia and industry with an innovative experience as CTO of two startups.
Research topics and activities
Networking
Since a decade, I have been active in enhancing new Network paradigms beyond the IP-protocols. Mainly, my research on distributed IP-level monitoring has led to better understanding the Internet topology at the IP-Level. Furthermore, I have worked on post-IP proposal such as ICN (Information Centric Networks) where routing mechanisms are centered into content centric approaches, SDN (Software Define Networks) that offers higher flexibility to Network functions and new proposal for cellular networks such as IP-Multimedia subsystems for 5G.
Digital Transition
I'm looking at different aspects spanning from new digital architectures led by distributed cloud services and serverless deployment. The future of the web thanks to embedded VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) up to the distributed Internet of Skills within the Metaverse and haptic devices. Furthermore, I'm also leading development projects and teams using agile methodologies and design products for IoT and Analytics.
Electronics
The hardware ecosystem has seen a radical shift into fully integrated systems such as SoM (System on Module), SoC (System on Chips) and reduced energy consumption. Due to the high heterogeneity of hardware vendors and diversity of low level programming languages, it is difficult to prototype hardware devices without being hardware dependent. I have worked on a framework called PrIoT to prototype and orchestrate IoT devices from idea to completion with a high level language.
Industrial and Entrepreneurship
Projects
Since I'm involved in the Industrial sector with my engineering background, I've participated in several projects concerning digital transition for small and large enterprises. I was responsible for the new cloud architecture in a project for Renault and Nissan; this project was international and has settled a cloud infrastructure to ease Digital Asset Management process and Secure the interaction with external agencies. More recently, I have been the product owner of an advanced immersive learning tool for SNCF with AR and VR functionalities to leveraged the training facilities in the field.
Entrepreneurship
Since Research and Innovation in the digital area are building new technologies that are fast to market, I've been highly invested in setting up startups with innovative approaches and products development. My first startup, BlumenLab, proposes a novel web editing framework to integer Virtual and Augmented reality into immersive content. Furthermore, my second enterprise, KB DIGITAL, has developed in collaboration with IMT Labs an IoT prototyping Framework and a complete modular hardware board that are energy efficient. These products have been deployed in several projects with our customers.
Consulting
My consulting expertise spans from guiding customers on their Digital and Network projects either through deep studies and/or training or by organizing bootcamp using ideation and agile methodologies when it comes to creating new products. The latter is very interesting and efficient as it orchestrates the creation process of the customers with their teams in a cooperative way where I guide the innovative process with agile methodology. Furthermore, these sessions ends with the creation of prototypes, either development of web or smartphone Application or as hardware prototype when designing an IoT devices.
Teaching for Students and Professionals
Lecturer
Since 2009, I've been deeply involved in teaching at University and Engineering Schools for Bachelor and Master students. I have acquired a strong expertise in teaching Network Architecture, Web Design, programming languages and agile project management. I have also settled practical curriculum with emulated networking labs and development projects that highlight the theoretical concept with real practice and deployment. I have also started to teach digital skills to non technical audiences, especially for managers as digital transition will impact all spectrums of our economy. Furthermore, I have started to publish interactive learning contents for my students either as MOOC contents or as technical video screencasts.
Professional training
My teaching experiment is not restricted to academic lectures and I often provide seminars to professional audiences working on the ICT fields. These sessions are oriented to provide practitioners with an overview of the state of the art in various fields such as IoT, Programing, Cellular Networks, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning. Normally, I build dedicated learning sessions for given teams in an enterprise that want to foster their knowledge on specific aspects that need to be deepened or I organize seminars that are open to Inter-enterprise practitioners willing to discover a new technical area. I started this professional training activity some years ago with ORSYS, a training institute that has a large portfolio of training and seminars offerings. In this regards, I'm responsible for the IoT, Cloud and Wireless portfolio.