Swiss and French
Married with 2 kids
Living in Switzerland
Research, Entrepreneurship and Teaching
Welcome to my personal website where you will find information about my current and past professional activities. My primary interest rely on research and teaching activities around the emerging digital transition aspects covering the Internet of Things, cellular Networks, Augmented reality, Blockchain and Machine Learning. Teaching is deeply integrated into my missions, with more than 1000h of teaching experience in both Accademia and Industry. Finally, I'm also involve into Industrial Innovation and Entrepreneurship and serving as CEO of KB DIGITAL AG and CTO of Blumenlab.
Research topics and activities
Networking
Since a decade, I have been active into enhancing new Network paradigm 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
Digital transformation is currently at the heart of my research area.
I'm looking at different aspects spanning from new digital architectures
lead by distributed cloud services and serverless deployment. The future of the web
thanks to embedded VR (Virtual Reality) and AR (Augmented Reality) into smartphones
and haptic devices. Furthermore, I'm also looking at secure transactions for IoT through
different Blockchain implementations. Finally, I work on Machine Learning approaches
that scale to the growth of produced data comming from the IoT.
Electronics
The hardware echosystem has seen a radical shift into fully integrated systems
such as SoM (System on Module), SoC (System on Chips) and reduced energy comsumtion.
Due to the high heterogeneity of hardware vendors and diversity of low level programming languages,
it is dificult to prototype hardware devices without beeing hardware dependant.
Since 2 years, I have worked on PrIoT a solution to prototype
and orchestrate IoT devices from idea to completion with a high level language.
Industrial and Entrepreneurship
Projects
Since I'm involve into the Industrial sector with my engineering background,
I've participate to several project concerning digital transition for small and large enterprises.
I was responsible of 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, we have created 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 interested
into setting up startups with innovative approaches and product. 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, guide
it's customers on their digital transition projects, we have created a prototyping
language for the IoT and have prototyped new communicating products for our clients.
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 create new products. The latter is very interesting and efficient as
it orchestrate the creation process of the customers with their teams in
a cooperative way were 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 Professional
Teaching
Since 2009, I'm deeply involve into teaching at University and Engineering Schools
for Bachelor and Master students. I have acquire a strong expertise into
teaching Network Architecture, Web Design and programming languages.
I have also settle practical curiculum 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 audience,
especially for managers as
digital transition will impact all spectrum of our economy.
Furthermore, I have strated to publish interative learning contents
for my students either as MOOC contents or as technical video screencasts.
Industry
My teaching experiment is not restricted to accademic lectures and I
often provide seminars to professional audience 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, Cellular Networks, Cybersecurity,
Machine Learning.
Normally, I build dedicated learning session for given team in an enterprise that
want to foster their knowledge on a specific aspects that need to be deepen or
I organize seminars that are open to Inter-enterprise practitioners willing to
discover a new technical area. I have started this professional training
activity 5 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 and
Wireless portfolio.