Frédéric Giroire
Directeur de recherche at CNRS
Coati team-project (formerly Mascotte)
Joint project I3S (CNRS/ Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) and Inria
3IA Côte d'Azur chair
Email: frederic -dot- giroire -at- cnrs -dot- fr
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 38 50 98
Fax: +33 (0)4 89 73 24 00
Sophia Antipolis, France.
Directeur de recherche at CNRS
Coati team-project (formerly Mascotte)
Joint project I3S (CNRS/ Université Nice Sophia Antipolis) and Inria
3IA Côte d'Azur chair
Email: frederic -dot- giroire -at- cnrs -dot- fr
Tel: +33 (0)4 92 38 50 98
Fax: +33 (0)4 89 73 24 00
Sophia Antipolis, France.
Research Interests
- IA for Networks
- Energy efficiency
- Network security and privacy
- SDN networks and Network Virtualization
- Analysis of social networks
- Dynamic Routing
- Peer to peer storage systems
- Traffic analysis
- Analysis of algorithms
- Network design
Ph.D. Students
Current:
- 2025-2028 Sayf Eddine Halmi
- 2025-2028 Rémi Godet
- 2025-2028 Adrien Sardi
- 2024-2027 Jamil Abou Ltaif
- 2024-2027 Pierre Pereira
- 2024-2027 Niccolo D'Archivio
- 2024-2027 Davide Ferre
Former:
- 2022-2025 Tiago da Silva Barros
- 2019-2022 Hicham Lesfari
- 2019-2022 Zhejiayu Ma
- 2018-2021 Adrien Gausseran
- 2017-2021 Thibaud Trolliet
- 2018-2021 Giuseppe di Lena
- 2016-2019 Andrea Tomassilli
- 2014-2017 Nicolas Huin
- 2010-2013 Remigiusz Modrzejewski
- 2009-2012 Julio Araujo
Research Projects
- European project EURO-3C (2026-2029), a EUROpean Connected Collaborative Computing Networks for Secure Telco-Cloud-Edge, of HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-08 call.
- European project dAIEDGE (2023-2026), a network of excellence for distributed, trustworthy, efficient and scalable AI at the Edge, of HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-02-02 call.
- Cupseli challenge with the startup Hive (2025-2029) on building a collaborative Unified Platform for a Scalable and Efficient Learning Infrastructure.
- Nokia/Inria Challenges SmartNet and LearnNet (2024-2027) on AI Methods for Smart Network Management and Learning Networks
- PEPR CARECLOUD (2023-2030): The goal is to understand, improve, and reduce the environmental impacts of Cloud Computing.
- PEPR Networks of the future (2023-2030).
- Challenge Alvearium Challenge with the startup Hive (2024-2027) on building a Large Scale Secure and Reliable Peer-to-Peer Cloud Storage.
News
- Great news! The European project EURO-3C to build a European federated Telco-Edge-Cloud infrastructure has started on July 1st 2026.
- Check the Article in the New Scientist, a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology, on our new study on how to reduce AI energy consumption worldwide through model selection. See studied AI tasks and models here.
- We are organizing the GreenDays 2026 in Sophia Antipolis on March 10-11.
- Our paper discussing how to Schedule tasks with network constraints has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Networking.
- Our paper discussing the Attribute Inference Attacks for Federated Regression Tasks has just been accepted for publication in AAAI 2025. Congrats Francesco!
- Good news! Our paper discussing the Sparsity of the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis for Neural Networks has just been accepted for publication in NeurIPS 2024.
- October 7, 2022. Defense of Hicham Lesfari. Hicham's PhD thesis was awarded the price of the UCA foundation. Congrats Hicham!
Teaching
I am teaching in the Master IFI Ubinet, Master MDFI, and International Master of Computer Science.