Michel COSNARD

CURRICULUM

• 1975 : Engineering dregree from École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble.
• 1975 : Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University (USA) - Advisor: J.J. MORE.
• 1983 : PhD from Grenoble University (France) - Advisor : F. ROBERT.
• 1985 : Habilitation from Grenoble University (France).

• 1978-1979 : Research Assistant at CNRS - IMAG Laboratory (France).
• 1979-1981 : Assistant Professor at San Carlos University (Guatemala).
• 1981-1987 : Permanent Researcher at CNRS - IMAG Laboratory (France).
• 1987-1990 : Associate Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France).
• 1990-1999 : Full Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon  (France).
• 1999-2002 : Full Professor (exceptionnal class) at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon  (France), in position at INRIA.
• 2002-         : Full Professor (exceptionnal class) at Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis (ESSI)

• 1993 : Verdaguer Prize of French National Academy of  Sciences.
• 1995 : Silver Core of IFIP.
• 2003 : Charles Babbage Award (IEEE-IPDPS).
  

Administration

• 1985-1988 : Responsible of the research team « Parallel algorithms and symbolic computation» of TIM3-IMAG Laboratory.
• 1988-1997 : Director of the Laboratory for Parallel Computer Science (LIP) at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
• 1989-1995 : Chairman of IFIP Working Group 10.3 on Concurrent Systems.
• 1995-1997 : Vice-chairman of the Department of Information technologies at the French Ministry of Research.
• 1997-2000 : Director the Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications - LORIA - Nancy (France)
• 1997-2000 : Director  INRIA Research Unit in Lorraine (France).
• 2001->       : Director  INRIA Research Unit in Sophia Antipolis (France).
• 2001-2003 : Director of  ACI GRID.
• 2001->             : Manager of ERCIM
• 12/03-05/04 : Chairman and CEO of INRIA
  

Research interests

GRID : Globalisation des Ressources Informatiques et des Données (Globalizing Informatics Resources and Data).
Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
Complexity of Algorithms
Théory of Automata and Neural Networks
Discrete Dynamical Systems

Books and conference proceedings

• Books
• Algorithmes et Architectures Parallèles, InterEditions (1993)
          M. COSNARD et D. TRYSTRAM
 
• Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, International Thomson Computer Press (1995)
          M. COSNARD and D. TRYSTRAM
 
• Conference proceedings

13 conference proceedings. Last 5 are.

Proceedings of  CONPAR92, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag (1992), Editors : L. BOUGE, M. COSNARD, Y. ROBERT et D. TRYSTRAM

Proceedings of  IFIP Working Conference on Compilation Techniques for fine-grain parallelism and data flow computers, North-Holland (1993), Editors : M. COSNARD, K. EBCIOGLU et J.L. GAUDIOT

Proceedings of  IFIP International Conference on Decentralized and Distributed Systems, North-Holland (1993), Editors : M. COSNARD et R. PUIGJANER

Proceedings of  Conférence France Canada sur le Calcul Parallèle, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 805 (1994), Editors : M. COSNARD, A. FERREIRA et J. PETERS

Proceedings of  RENPAR, Techniques et Sciences Informatiques special issue (1995), Editors : L. BOUGE, M. COSNARD et P. FRAIGNIAUD


Proceedings of  IFIP Workshop on New perspectives on parallel processing, Numéro spécial de Parallel Processing Letters (2001), Editeurs :    
M. COSNARD, U. FINGER et J.L. GAUDIOT

Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2003, Nice, IEEE Press (2003)

Proceedings of IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2004, Albuquerque, IEEE Press (2004)

Proceedings of ACM – IEEE - IFIP Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques 2004, Juan-les Pins, IEEE Press (2004)

Reviewer at Mathematical Review, Siam J. Num. Anal., Siam Review, C. R. Acad. Sc., IEEE Trans. Power Systems, IEEE TPDS, IEE Proceedings, Traitement du Signal, Journal of Parallel Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, International Journal of Parallel Programming, TSI, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Processing, Theoretical Computer Science, International Journal of Mathematical Systems Theory, Information Processing Letters, ...

- Editor-in-Chief of Parallel Processing Letters (1991->).
- Chairman of IFIP Working Group 10.3 on Concurrent Systems, (1989-1995).
- Member of IFIP Working Group 10.6 on Computing Aspects of Neural Networks, (1991->).
- Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Parallel Computing (1986->).
- Member of the Editorial Board of Internat. Journal of Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS)  (1993->).
- Member of the Editorial Board of  Techniques et Sciences Informatiques (89-91), La lettre des calculateurs distribués, (1988->), Brasilian Computer Science Journal (1994->).
- Member of the  Steering Committees of the Symposium on Parallel Architectures and Algorithms (SPAA),  of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium and of the Parallel Architectures and Compilation Theory Conference (PACT).