Students
I have been privileged to serve as advisor for (and to collaborate with) the following great people (listed in chronological order):
Visiting Scholars
- José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin [June 2019], Visiting Researcher, CONICET / University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "Investigating Potential Routing Algorithms in IoT".
- Diego Dujovne [March 2018], Visiting Associate Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
Subject: "IoT Convergence and Divergence".
Postdoctoral Fellows
- [02/2021 - present] Philippe Fabian, Postdoctoral fellow, IRT b<>com, France.
Subject: "Innovations in 5G Backhaul Technologies".
Co-advisor: Prof. Bernard Cousin (University of Rennes 1) and Prof. Patrick Savelli (IRT b<>com).
- [06/2017 - 08/2020] Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis, Postdoctoral fellow, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Toward Realization of Industry 4.0: Deterministic Wireless Networks".
Co-advisor: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
Ph.D. Candidates
- [07/2021 - present] Julius Bünger, Ph.D. candidate, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Secure Classification and Life-Cycle Management of IoT devices".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique), Dr. Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Guillaume Doyen (IMT Atlantique).
- [10/2020 - present] Amaury Bruniaux, Ph.D. candidate, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "SDN approach to support ubiquitous IoT technologies".
Co-supervisors: Dr. Julien Montavont (University of Strasbourg), Prof. Thomas Noël (University of Strasbourg) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [02/2020 - present] Fabián Antonio RINCON VIJA, Ph.D. candidate under CIFRE program, Renault & IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Nouveau procédé de communication d'un système calculateurs de batteries de Véhicules Électrique".
Co-supervisors: Samuel Cregut (Renault) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [11/2018 - paused] Eduardo Inglés Sánchez, Ph.D. candidate in Cotutelle program, University of Murcia, Spain & IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Security Associations in Constrained IoT Environments".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Antonio F. Skarmeta (University of Murcia) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [12/2017 - 09/2021] Guillaume Le Gall, Ph.D. candidate, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Toward Wireless Battery Management System in Electrical Vehicles".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [12/2017 - 12/2020] Renzo Efraín Navas, Ph.D. candidate, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Improving the Resilience of the Constrained Internet of Things".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Frédéric Cuppens (IMT Atlantique), Dr. Nora Cuppens (IMT Atlantique), Prof. Georg Sigl (TUM, Germany).
- [10/2017 - 12/2020] Tomas Lagos Jenschke, Ph.D. candidate, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Toward Reliable and Bounded Latency for Internet of Things".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [03/2016 - 09/2020] Vasilios Kotsiou, Ph.D. candidate, University of Strasbourg, France.
Subject: "Reliable Communications for the Industrial Internet of Things".
Co-supervisors: Dr. Fabrice Theoleyre (University of Strasbourg) & Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios (A.T.E.I. of Thessaloniki).
Research Interns: Ph.D., Master of Science (M.Sc.) and Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Students
- [07/2021 - 12/2021] Ega Fosso J.M., M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "6LoWPAN Fragment Forwarding in Multi-path RPL-based Networks".
Co-supervisor: Mr. Amaury Bruniaux (IMT Atlantique).
- [10/2020 - 03/2021] Mohamed Lamine Koma, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, IMT Atlantique / ONIRIS, France.
Subject: "Mobilité réseau robuste pour service de téléexpertise vétérinaire par lunettes connectées".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Ahmed Bouabdallah (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Xavier Lagrange (IMT Atlantique).
- [04/2020 - 10/2020] Amaury Bruniaux, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Packet Fragmentation in IoT".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis (IMT Atlantique).
- [02/2020 - 08/2020] Dimitris Sourailidis, B.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece.
Subject: "On Enhancement of RPL routing protocol for Industrial Internet of Things".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis (IMT Atlantique) & Dominique Barthel (Orange Labs).
- [09/2019 - 02/2020] Matias Sambrizzi, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "On Developing Standard-compliant Charging System (openEVSE) for Electrical Vehicles".
Co-supervisor: Guillaume Le Gall (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [09/2019 - 02/2020] Ana Czarnitzki Estrin, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "Investigating the Trade-offs between Disjoint vs Braided paths".
Co-supervisor: José Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin (CONICET / University of Buenos Aires) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [09/2019 - 02/2020] Fernando Iglesias, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "Investigating IEEE 802.15.4 technology to enable Wireless Battery Management System in Electrical Vehicles".
Co-supervisor: Guillaume Le Gall (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [07/2019 - 09/2019] Mohammed Ismail, M.Sc. Research Intern - 3 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Performance Evaluation of the 6TiSCH Minimal Scheduling Function (MSF)".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis (IMT Atlantique).
- [03/2019 - 07] Juan Antonio Navarro Gutierrez, M.Sc. Research Intern - 5 months, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Subject: "Integrating IEEE 802.15.4 technology to enable Wireless Battery Management System in Electrical Vehicles".
Co-supervisor: Guillaume Le Gall (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [01/2019 - 06/2019] Sergio Aguilar Romero, Visiting Ph.D. Candidate, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
Subject: "Performance Evaluation of the SCHC protocol in LPWAN".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Patrick Maille (IMT Atlantique), Dr. Laurent Toutain (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [04/2018 - 09/2018] Eduardo Ingles Sanchez, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France / University of Murcia, Spain.
Subject: "RPL Bootstrapping phase: DODAG Network Selection".
- [02/2018 - 07/2018] Agustin Picard, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "High Precession Localization in Wireless Networks".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [02/2018 - 07/2018] Cristian Alderete, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "Toward Wireless Battery Management System in Electrical Vehicles".
Co-supervisor: Guillaume Le Gall (IMT Atlantique) & Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [10/2017 - 03/2018] Chenyang Ji, B.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, A.T.E.I. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Subject: "Load Balancing in RPL-based Networks: Traffic-aware Objective Function"".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis (IMT Atlantique).
- [02/2017 - 07/2017] Julian Martin Del Fiore, M.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Subject: "Toward Reliable and Deterministic Networks in Industrial-IoT applications".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [05/2016 - 08/2016] Tadanori Matsui, M.Sc. Research Intern - 4 months, Keio University, Japan.
Subject: "Toward Deterministic and Predictable Networks in Industrial-IoT applications".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (Télécom Bretagne) & Dr. Géraldine Texier (Télécom Bretagne).
- [04/2016 - 09/2016] Alexandros Mavromatis, B.Sc. Research Intern - 6 months, A.T.E.I. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Subject: "Synchronization optimization in multi-hop TSCH networks".
Co-supervisors: Dr. George Oikonomou (University of Bristol) & Dr. Theo Tryfonas (University of Bristol).
- [11/2013 - 06/2014] Vasilios Kotsiou, M.Sc. Thesis - 8 months, Hellenic Open University, Greece.
Subject: "Optimizing ContikiMAC Protocol for Bursty Traffic in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks".
- [10/2013 - 03/2014] Kosmas Kritsis, B.Sc. Thesis - 6 months, Alexander T.E.I. of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Subject: "Performance Evaluation Methods in Ad-Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks: A Literature Study".
Co-supervisors: Dr. Antoine Gallais (University of Strasbourg) & Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios (A.T.E.I. of Thessaloniki).
S5 projects / Final projects / TER projects: (M.Sc.) Students
- [2019-20] Jude Irinmwiagbon and Jean Felix Kwitonda, M.Sc. S5 project (final project) - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Connectivité Réseau Robuste pour un Service de Téléexpertise par Lunettes Connectées".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Ahmed Bouabdallah (IMT Atlantique).
- [2018-19] Ivan-Clare Ngong and Dinh Hoang Tran, M.Sc. S5 project (final project) - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Applying Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Optimized Parent Selection in RPL".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Patrick Maille (IMT Atlantique).
- [2017-18] Hiba Dakdouk and Erika Tarazona, M.Sc. S5 project (final project) - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Learning Techniques for Optimized Channel Hopping in Industrial IoT".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Patrick Maille (IMT Atlantique).
- [2016-17] Maurine Kersale, M.Sc. S5 project (final project) - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "Toward Deterministic and Predictable Networks in Industrial-IoT applications".
Co-supervisor: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique).
- [2016-17] Cecile Bouette, Blanca Martinez De Aragon and Ange Ouya, M.Sc. S5 project (final project) - 6 months, IMT Atlantique, France.
Subject: "An Efficient Electric Vehicle Charging Architecture based on LoRa Communication".
Co-supervisors: Prof. Nicolas Montavont (IMT Atlantique) and Prof. Patrick Maille (IMT Atlantique).
- [2016] Xingchi Liu, M.Sc. Final Project - 6 months, University of Bristol, UK.
Subject: "Investigating the Age of Information in WSNs and IoT system".
Co-supervisor: Dr. George Oikonomou (University of Bristol).
- [2015] Benjamin Zingraff , M.Sc. TER project (final project) - 3 months, University of Strasbourg, France.
Subject: "Performance evaluation of ME-ContikiMAC protocol in a real indoor environment".
- [2014] Aurélien Ebel, M.Sc. TER project (final project) - 3 months, University of Strasbourg, France.
Subject: "Analysis and Implementation of Biologger Traces with Cooja Simulator over Contiki OS".
Co-supervisor: Dr. Antoine Gallais (University of Strasbourg).