Samir M. Perlaza | INRIA | Permanent Member of the Scientific Staff

Chargé de Recherche (Permanent Member of the Scientific Staff) Centre de Recherche de Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France. Visiting Research Collaborator Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey, USA Associate Member Laboratoire de Géométrie Algébrique et Applications à la Théorie de l’Information (GAATI) Université de la Polynésie Française Faaa, French Polynesia.

Research

I am interested in theoretical and practical aspects of game theory and information theory. The application domains that motivate my research include communication systems, power systems, behavioral influence, and distributed decision making.

Teaching

• INFO5147 - Selected Topics in Information Theory at ENS de Lyon, 2020 - 2021

• INFO5147 - Selected Topics in Information Theory at ENS de Lyon, 2019 - 2020

• INFO5147 - Network Information Theory at ENS de Lyon, 2016-2017.

Academic Appointments

• Permanent Member of the Scientific Staff, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. Jan. 2020 - present

• Visiting Research Collaborator, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, Jan. 2013 - present

• Associate Member, Université de la Polynésie Française, Laboratoire de Géométrie Algébrique et Applications à la Théorie de l’Information (GAATI), Faaa, French Polynesia, May 2021 - present

• Permanent Member of the Scientific Staff, INRIA, Lyon, France. Dec. 2013 - Jan. 2020

• Postdoctoral Associate, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013

• Postdoctoral Associate, Alcatel-Lucent Chair at Supélec, Orsay, France. Jul. 2011 - Dec. 2011

• Research Engineer, France Télécom - Orange, Issy les Moulineaux, France, Jan. 2008 - Jan. 2011

Education

• HDR, Université de Lyon I and INSA de Lyon, France, 2021

• Ph.D., Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, 2011

• MSc., EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2007

• BSc. Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, 2005

Editorial Boards

• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2017 - 2022

• Editor, IET Smart Grids, 2018 - 2021

• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 2020 - 2022

• Guest Editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue on ‘‘Artificial Intelligence Powered Edge Computing for the Internet of Things’’, 2020

International Research Projects

• Principal (French) Investigator of EU funded H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 project: “Testing and Evaluating Sophisticated information and communication Technologies for enaBling scalablE smart griD Deployment (TESTBED2)”. Grant Agreement no. 872172. (web)

• Principal (French) Investigator of EU funded ERA-NET-MED-2015 project: “COMMunication systems with renewable Energy micro-griD (COM-MED)”. EU Project locally handled by ANR under Grant Agreement ANR-15-NMED-0009-03. (web)

• Principal Investigator of H2020 project CYBERNETS under EU Grant agreement 659316. (web)

Acknowledgments and Awards

• INRIA Exploratory Action (Information and Decision Making - IDEM) to characterize the interplay between data acquisition and information processing in decentralized decision making by bringing together tools from information theory and game theory. Action starts in 2022

• Prime d’encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR), granted by INRIA in 2021

• Fellowship of The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. Host: School of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Apr. 2019

• Fellowship “Make our Planet Great Again” of the Embassy of France in the United States of America, received jointly with Prof. Ali Tajer in 2017

• Prime d’encadrement Doctoral et de Recherche (PEDR), granted by INRIA in 2014

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellow. Individual Fellowship, Class of 2015

• IEEE Senior Member, 2015.

• Best Student Paper Award in the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM)), 2009

• Alban Fellow. the European Commission Programme of High Level Scholarships for Graduate Students from Latin America. Grant E06M101130CO.

• Baccalaureate Honoris Causa granted by Colegio Nacional de Bachillerato - Instituto Técnico on behalf of the Ministry of Education of Colombia. Santander de Quilichao, Colombia, December 2000.

• City Council Agreement No. 028 of 1999 to create the award “Ciudad de los Samanes - Samir Alberto Medina Perlaza” in Santander de Quilichao, Colombia. This award is given to the top-ranked students in the national exams to access higher education in a ceremony held every year at the City Hall since 1999.