Sophie Cerf
About Me
I am Research Scientist (ISFP) in the Spirals team of the Inria center of the University of Lille.
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.
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Some Keywords
Self-adaptive Systems
Control of Computing Systems
Distributed Systems (Cloud, Edge, High Performance Computing)
Computing within Limits
Reproducible Research
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.
Funding and Awards
PULSE: Défi Inria/Qarnot Computing (2022-2026). PUshing Low-carbon Services towards the Edge. Leader of WP5 on Emission control of computing tasks
ADAPT: ANR PRC 2023 (42 months – 472k€). Adapt hierarchical component-based systems dynamically. Leader of WP2 on Control mechanisms for adaptation and reconfiguration
PEPR Cloud (2023-2030)
18-month post-doctoral research grant within the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC) in 2020,
5-month research grant at IBM Zurich Center following an application to the IBM PhD Fellowship program 2018,
3-year french national research PhD ministry grant,
Best Poster Award at EEATS Doctoral School PhD day 2017