September 2026

Ninot, G., Descamps, E., Achalid, G. et al. The NPIS model: a consensus-based framework for evaluating non-pharmacological interventions. Health Res Policy Sys (2026). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-026-01521-1

Arnaud Legout, Leonardo Digirolamo, Christopher Leturc, Isabelle Milhabet, Fanny Verkampt. Wrong AI-style suggestions lower accuracy and inflate confidence in errors. Preprint hal-05750531.

August 2026

Abdoul Nasser Hassane Amadou, Arnaud Legout, Imane Fouad, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Anas Motii Extracting and Verifying Illicit Bitcoin Addresses from Underground Forum Discussions. Preprint arXiv:2608.13930.

July 2026

Duplaix J, Abad S, Bruna M, Legout A, Nommer A, Nourrit D, Ninot G. Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine on X (Formerly Twitter) From 2015 to 2024: Retrospective Trend Analysis of 39 Predefined Terms in English, Spanish, and French. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 13/07/2026:97760. DOI: 10.2196/97760

I am a senior research scientist at Inria Sophia Antipolis, France, in the project-team DIANA. I also made two academic breaks one from 2000 to 2004 to join the startup Castify Networks as an Architect and then CTO assistant, and another one from 2016 to 2020 to found and be the CEO of the startup ElectroSmart.

In parallel, I provide in-company training in Python data science and data science consulting engagements.

I received my Ph.D. (docteur ès sciences) in Communication Systems in 2000 and my HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in 2012. I did my thesis work at the Institut Eurecom, France, in the Ernst Biersack's working on Multicast Congestion Control. I also received a master degree in mathematics (maîtrise de mathématiques) for the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.

Curriculum Vitae

Linkedin profile

Publications, Talks, and Patents (Google scholar profile)

Page Université Côte d'Azur

Current

• Greasy: Which traces do you leave on the Web?
• ElectroSmart: Revealing your exposition to the electromagnetic waves.

Past

• soTweet: Information Propagation in Social Networks.
• Meddle: Putting control of mobile devices and carriers on end-users' hands.
• Video Streaming: What's the traffic characteristics of video streaming?
• Bluebear: Exploring privacy threats in the Internet.
• P2P-CD: Understanding and improving P2P content delivery.
• PLM: Efficient multicast congestion control.

Mobile Systems

• Impact of smartphones on the Internet
• Power management
• Security and Privacy

Social networks

• Information propagation
• Influence
• Security and Privacy

Internet Architectures

• Information Centric Architecture
• User Centric Architecture
• Security and Privacy

Content Distribution

• Peer-to-Peer Networks
• Security and Privacy

Graduated

• Yanis Boussad. Graduated in September 2021. Thesis
• Imane Fouad. Graduated in June 2021. Thesis
• Mathieu Thiery. Graduated in December 2020. Thesis
• Maksym Gabielkov. Graduated in June 2016. Thesis.
• Ashwin Rao. Graduated in December 2013. Thesis. Now postdoc at University of Helsinki with Sasu Tarkoma.
• Stevens Le Blond. Graduated in April 2011, now research scientist at MPI-SWS.

Editorial board

• Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) (2021-2023), Elsevier Computer Networks (2012--2016)

TPC Chair

• ICCCN'2009 P2P track (co-chair with Yi Cui)

TPC

• PETS 2022, PETS 2021, ACM IMC 2016, ACM CoNEXT 2015, ACM IMC 2014, IEEE TMA 2013, IEEE P2P 2012, IEEE HotPOST 2012, Algotel 2012, Usenix IPTPS 2009, ACM CoNEXT 2008, P2P-TV Workshop 2007, ACM Sigcomm 2007 PC heavy, ACM Sigcomm 2006 PC light, ACM Sigcomm 2005 shadow PC.

Reviewer

• Journals: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computers, IEEE Network, Computer Communications, ACM CCR.

• Conferences: IEEE Infocom, ACM Sigmetrics.

• Workshops: HPSR'07

2011–

• Formations intra-entreprise (en français ou en anglais, en présentiel ou à distance) : Python — niveau 1, Python — avancé, Python data science — niveau 1, Python data science — niveau 2, Python machine learning.
• Conseil en data science : performance et coût de vos traitements de données, usage des agents IA par votre équipe data, revue scientifique de vos analyses.

MOOC

2017-.

• I created with Thierry Parmentelat a MOOC on Python 3 in French.
  J'ai conçu avec Thierry Parmentelat un MOOC sur Python 3 en Français.

2014-2016

• I created with Thierry Parmentelat a MOOC on Python 2 in French.
  J'ai conçu avec Thierry Parmentelat un MOOC sur Python 2 en Français.

Academic course

Note: My course material is available in the publications section.

2019-.

• Course on Blockchain and Privacy (master Ubinet, UCA, F)

2018

• Course on Introduction to data science (Master bioinformatique, UNSA, F)

2012-2018

• Course on Scientific Communication (master 1 international and master 1 data science, UNSA, F)

2014-2018

• Course on Peer-to-Peer Applications : From BitTorrent to Privacy (master Ubinet, UNSA, F)

2010-2013

• Course on Peer-to-Peer Applications : From BitTorrent to Privacy (master Ubinet, UNSA, F)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer Applications : From BitTorrent to Privacy (master RTM, IUP Avignon, F)

2009

• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master IFI, UNSA, F)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master TSM, UNSA, F)

2008

• Short version of my course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master RTM, IUP GMI Avignon, F)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master RSD, UNSA, F)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master TIM, UNSA, F)
• Course and laboratory sessions on TCP/IP networks (IUT GTR, F)

2007

• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master RSD, UNSA, F)
• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master TIM, UNSA, F)
• Laboratory sessions on C system programming on Unix(IUT GTR, F)

2006

• Course on Peer-to-Peer file replication (master RSD, UNSA, F)
• Course and laboratory sessions on TCP/IP networks (IUT GTR, F)
• Laboratory sessions on C system programming on Unix (IUT GTR, F)

• Recommendations for Ph.D. students