Short bio

Oum-El-Kheir AKTOUF received the Master degree and the PhD degree, both in Computer Science, from Grenoble Institute of Technology. After a 2-year post-doc, she has been Associate Professor with Grenoble Institute of Technology, Esisar Engineering School and LCIS laboratory. She also was Visiting Professor on a sabbatical leave at the Computer Engineering Department of San José State University, California, USA. Since September 2021, she's Full Professor with Grenoble Institute of Technology.
Her research interests include dependability, safety and security of embedded and interconnected applications and systems (sensor-based applications, multi-embedded agent systems...) using runtime tests, diagnosis and monitoring approaches. Her teaching activities include operating systems, real time systems, distributed computing and computing systems’ dependability. She has supervised or co-supervised almost 15 PhD candidates, postdoc researchers and R&D engineers. She has taken part as principal investigator or scientific contributor to 12 funded research projects and contracts, national and international.

Research keywords: 

• Security and trust in embedded and distributed, autonomous applications and systems. 

• Test and security of mobile applications.

• System-level on line fault diagnosis (hardware components, middleware, software components). 

Teaching keywords: Dependability, Operating systems, Real time, Distributed programming, Functional programming