Salut !
I used to work as a software engineer at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, located on the French Riviera.
I left INRIA in December 2006.
My former research team, Oasis, is interested in different aspects of distributed and Grid computing, from theory (model checking, ASP calculus, programming models) to technical issues (deployment, computational peer-to-peer, fault-tolerance, distributed garbage collection...).
As a support for its research work, the Oasis team develops a Grid middleware called ProActive, which is available in open-source as part of the ObjectWeb consortium. I participated actively to core developments and maintenance activities, and I was responsible for the component framework, an implementation of the Fractal component model with ProActive.
In 2006, I obtained a PhD degree in computer science from the university of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, for my work on "Components for Grid Computing". The thesis aimed at defining a component model and a framework that answer the requirements of Grid computing. My PhD advisor was Denis Caromel.
Before working at INRIA, I studied physics and computer science in Lyon and worked for a while in an e-commerce start-up in Paris (right during the .com bubble burst) and at CERN in Geneva. Both excellent experiences!
Apart from work, I love traveling and discovering new people and cultures, reading, watching good movies and partying with friends. I am also a kind of squash geek, although I cannot play as much as I would like to!