Presenter

Arnaud Legrand is a tenured CNRS researcher at Grenoble University, France since 2004. His research interests encompass the management (mostly from an algorithmic point of view, i.e., scheduling, load balancing, fairness, game theory….) and the performance evaluation (in particular through simulation, visualization, statistical analysis, …) of large scale distributed computing infrastructures such as clusters, grids, desktop grids, volunteer computing platforms, clouds,… when used for scientific computing. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France in 2000 and 2003, and his Habilitation Thesis in 2015 from Grenoble University, France. He is one of the main developers of the SimGrid project, a simulation toolkit for building simulators of distributed applications. He has published 20+ journal articles and 50+ conference articles.