Abstract
I am a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Rennes.
Research
My research activities take place in the Inria/IRISA laboratory.
Activities
- Leader of the Magellan Inria/IRISA research team
Main research topics
- Cloud computing
- Edge/fog computing
- Energy efficiency of cloud/edge/fog
- Environmental observatories
Recent projects
- Frugalcloud: Inria/OVHcloud collaboration on frugal cloud computing
- Taranis and STEEL (2023-2030) within the PEPR CLOUD framework
- TERRA FORMA (2021-2029): Developing and testing observatories for the Anthropocene
Recent publications
- Enhancing Environmental Observatories with Fog Computing. Ammar Kazem, Guillaume Pierre and Laurent Longuevergne. Frontiers in Environmental Science 13, April 2025.
- UnBound: Multi-Tenancy Management in Scalable Fog Meta-Federations. Chih-Kai Huang and Guillaume Pierre. In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM UCC, December 2024.
- Toward Stream Processing Elasticity in Realistic Geo-Distributed Environments. Khaled Arsalane, Guillaume Pierre and Shadi Ibrahim. In Proceedings of IEEE IC2E, September 2024.
PhD students
- Haraesh Jayasethu Ramachandran (co-supervised with François Lemercier)
- Marc Tranzer (co-supervised with Shadi Ibrahim)
- Ammar Kazem (co-supervised with Laurent Longuevergne)
- Govind KP (co-supervised with Romain Rouvoy)
- Khaled Arsalane
Teaching
My teaching activities take place at ISTIC, the department of Computer Science and Electronics of the University of Rennes.
Activities
- Leader of the “Cloud and Networking Infrastructures” international Master 2 program
- Member of the ACHIEVE European project: enhancing European higher education in the domain of IT infrastructures and Cloud/HPC
Courses
- SYRE - Systèmes et réseaux (L3 informatique)
- SIN - Systèmes infomatiques (L3 MIAGE)
- SCT - Services and cloud technologies (M1 informatique)
- DS - Distributed systems (M1 informatique)
- ACI - Advanced cloud infrastructures (M2 informatique)
Service
Program committees
- 2026: IEEE ICFEC 2026, ACM/SPEC ICPE 2026, Euro-Par 2026 (co-chair of the track on Scheduling, Resource Management, Cloud, Edge Computing, and Workflows).
- 2025: ACM/SPEC ICPE 2025, IEEE ICFEC 2025, IEEE ICDCS 2025 (poster track), ACM DEBS 2025, ACM HPDC 2025, MASCOTS 2025, DAIS 2025.
- 2024: IEEE ICFEC 2024, DAIS 2024.
Organization committees
- General chair of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2025).
- General chair of Middleware 2018.
- Workshops/tutorials co-chair of EuroSys 2014 and Middleware 2016.
- Workshop co-chair of Middleware 2017.
- Steering committee member of FMEC, the International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (check the FMEC 2018 edition!)