Sophie Cerf

About Me

I am Research Scientist (ISFP) in the Spirals team, and part of the Inria center of the University of Grenoble Alpes. 
I am also lecturer at the Centrale Lille Institute.

Research Interests

My researches investigate the use of Control Theory for the autonomic management of Distributed Computing Systems.
I tend to focus my research on societal and ethical aspects: energy efficiency, carbon footprint, environmental impact, privacy protection.

News

NEW! Open Postdoctoral Position.  Apply here before Nov. 11!

NEW!  We have a number of internship positions to be filled on Spring 2025, don't hesitate to reach me out by email. If the internship goes well for all involved parties, PhD grants are available (funding already secured).

NEW!  Check out our interactive Tutorial on Control for Computing!

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Bio

Before joining the Spirals team, I was postdoc (Mar. 2020 - Sept. 2021 ) at Inria, Grenoble (France) in the Ctrl-A team with Éric Rutten in collaboration with Argonne National Lab, Chicago (USA)  and the Argo Project, with an Inria International Lab - JLESC grant.  Prior to that, I worked as a research assistant  (July - Nov 2018) at IBM Research Center, Zurich (Switzerland) with A/Prof. Lydia Y. Chen. I received my PhD degree (Oct. 2015 - May 2019) from the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France) on the topic of Control Theory for Computing Systems, for which I worked under the supervision of Pr. Nicolas Marchand , Dr. Bogdan Robu from Gipsa-Lab, Grenoble and Pr. Sara Bouchenak from DRIM research team, LIRIS, INSA-Lyon. I received my computer science & control engineering degree in 2015 from Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France, giving master's degree.

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