Olivier Poitou

French nationality

Address:	9 enclos de la Prairie	Phone:	(+33)3.27.42.79.49
	59300 Valenciennes	Cell.:	(+33)6.13.22.03.85
	France	email:	poitou@free.fr

Researcher in computer science

Objective: to work on challenging projects and to share the results with a wide community

Major Skills

Technical skills and knowledge	General skills
Distributed systems and algorithms Modelling: UML, ADT, Petri networks Programming: C, Java, C++, Lisp, prolog ... System architecture System Administration Networks Language theory Computer architecture Numerical optimisation	Oral and written communication: public demonstration, conference and teaching. Team work and team management Experience in European project proposal and management French: mother tongue English: working knowledge Spanish: conversational

Research experience

Leader of the WeGRID research team

CETIC, Web Mining and Grid Application Team, Charleroi, Belgium.

Grid and Peer-to-peer research

Security aspects in distributed environment (Grid/P2P) research

Contribution to Scientifical direction of the team and the research center .

Member of the CoreGRID European Network of Excellence

Leader of the "Visualization & Virtual Reality" experiment of the BEinGRID European project

10/2005-...

Researcher

CETIC, Web Mining and Grid Application Team, Charleroi, Belgium.

Grid and Peer-to-peer research

Member of the CoreGRID European Network of Excellence

Conception and development of a peer-to-peer filesystem

Coordinator of the CoWFS European Project proposal (Hewlett-Packard, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, RHEA and Zeus Consulting).

Leader of the "distributed filesystem" task of the DESSERT European Project Proposal (coordinator: Bertin Technologies).

Leader of Technical and Scientifical aspect of the BEinGRID European project proposal.

2005

Doctoral Student Researcher	1999-2003
ONERA-Toulouse Laboratory, computer science department, France.
Measurements of impact of isolated cluster machine’s characteristics on global efficiency. Guidelines to efficiently distribute irregular applications. Lazy algorithm approach to distribute data in irregular cases. Dynamic recursive task splitting approach to distribute irregular applications.

Pre-Doctoral Student Researcher	1998-1999
ONERA-Toulouse Laboratory, computer science department, France.
Evaluation of several consistency protocols for distributed shared memory. Distribution and optimisation of a lazy ray-tracing algorithm.

Teaching experience

Engineering training instructor	1999-2002
Institut de la Promotion Supérieure du Travail (School of Engineering for working people), Toulouse and Albi, France.
"Data structures and algorithm complexity", first year level, 1999-2002 "Modelling languages", last year level, 2000-2001

Supervisor of research initiation projects	2000-2001
Supaero (School of Engineering of Toulouse), second year level, France.
Evaluation of a new 2D DFT algorithm adapted to distributed computation. Evaluation of LZO compression algorithm to improve data transfer.

Education

Ph.D. in computer science with highest honours

2003

Supaero (School of Engineering of Toulouse), Toulouse, France.

Thesis (only in french):

Une algorithmique adaptée à la distribution pour la résolution de problèmes irréguliers
(How to efficiently distribute irregular applications on cluster machines)

Pre-doctoral studies in computer science with honours	1999
EDIT (Doctoral school of computer science and telecommunication), Toulouse, France.
Majors: Systems and networks

Additional Trainings

Software optimisation Three days training on sequential and distributed software optimisation University of Namur, Namur (Belgium).	2005
CoreGRID Summer School One Week training on Grid middlewares and Grid theory Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Swiss).	2005
Sun N1 Grid Engine - Advanced Administration Sun Training on the Sun Grid Engine product Sun training centre, Brussels (Belgium).	2005

Publications

PhD dissertation:

Olivier Poitou, Une algorithmique adaptée à la distribution pour la résolution de problèmes irréguliers/How to efficiently distribute irregular applications (only in french) PhD dissertation, Supaero, Toulouse, France, july 2003.

International conferences:

Syed Naqvi, Olivier Poitou, Philippe Massonet, Alvaro Arenas, Security Requirements Analysis for Large-scale Distributed File Systems, Europar 2006, Dresden, Germany. (powerpoint slideshow)

Bernard Lecussan and Olivier Poitou, Fundamental parallel program issues to improve parallel computations, Invited talk Ala2001 (Linear Algebra and Arithmetic: Numerical, Symbolic and Parallel Computations), University of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco, May 2001.

Olivier Poitou, Bernard Lecussan and Sébastien Bermes, Laziness, a way to improve distributed computation of the ray tracing algorithm, WSCG 2000, Prague, February 2000.

International meeting:

Alvaro Arenas, Philippe Massonet, Olivier Poitou, Towards Goal-Oriented Refinement of Grid Trust and Security Policies for Virtual Organizations, In CoreGRID integration workshop, Pisa, Italy, November 2005. Network of Excellence CoreGRID

Olivier Poitou, CoWFS : The Collaborative Workers File System, IST call 5 : Collaborative Working Environment, Brussels, Belgium, June 2005.

Olivier Poitou, Régine Leconte, David Gauchard and Thierry Monteil, Cluster computing, international meeting stand animation (during three days), SITEF'2000 (International meeting of technology and innovation), Toulouse, 2000.

National meeting:

Many interventions in several meetings of FERIA-PAR group (parallel application research group of CNRS and ONERA laboratory federation) from 2000 to 2002.

More about me

I am 32 years old. Attracted by oriental wisdom, I practice Tae kwon do (Korean martial art), but I keep my French touch learning oenology (Wine story and identification). Loving wide areas and mountains, I also practice snowboarding. Finally, I keep developing my team spirit playing volley ball, I was manager of the Supaero-CERT volley ball team from 2000 to 2002

References available upon request

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