Faculty
- Eric Gressier-Soudan. Full Professor.
- Lyes Khoukhi, Full Professor
- Pedro Braconnot Velloso, Associate Professor, HDR.
- Pengwenlong Gu, Associate Professor
- Sami Taktak. Associate Professor.
- Samia Bouzefrane. Full Professor.
- Stefano Secci, Full Professor.
- Stéphane Rovedakis. Associate Professor.
- Tatiana Aubonnet. Associate Professor. HDR
- Vania Conan, Full Professor.
Untenured permanent staff
- Chi-Dung Phung, Research Engineer.
- Frédéric Lemoine, Research Engineer
- Pierre Paradinas. Emeritus Professor, PDG Abak.Tech
- Christophe Maudoux. Adjunct Professor, PAST at CNAM & Gendarmerie Nationale.
- Bruno Chatras. Professeur affilié du CNAM, Orange retired.
Postdocs
- Naresh Modina, on network resource allocation and AI.
- Patient Ntumba, on network data pipelining.
- Farzad Veisi, on non terrestrial networking.
- Julio Cezar Perez Garcia, on network hardware accelleration.
- Abdelhak Hidouri, on vehicular networks.
Ph.D. candidates
- Mario Patetta, on programmable network data-plane systems.
- Victorien Romain (with Orange), on serverless network function orchestration.
- Rezak Aziz, on differential privacy & Federated Learning.
- Anh Khoa Dang (with Ericsson), on sustainable 6G communications.
- Ahmed Mehdi Boudjelli (with Orange), on intent-based network automation.
- Kilian Cressant, on graph neural networks.
- Bastien Buil (with Orange), on on-chip security for multi-party embedded systems.
- Hussein Kazem (with Soprasteria), on pentesting blockchain applications.
- Flavien Dermigny (with Thales) on embedded system cryptography.
- Billel Hakem (with KNDS/Nexter Systems) on predictive maintenance for connected vehicles.
- Yasmine Chaouche, on network automation.
- Ramzi Rezki, on attack detection using GNN.
- Moussa Guemdani, on disaggregated RAN scheduling and orchestration.
- Ali Moheed Kayani, on massive IoT architecture automation.
- Maham Kayani, on mobile network data analytics.
- Billal Mokhtari, on attack detection & knowledge graphs for CPS.
- Thierry N’kouka, on distributed AI for IoT authentification.
- Ali Srour, on programmable non-terrestrial devices.
- Salah Ali Bin-Ruba, on secure federated learning.
- Ernesto Leite (VAE, Databricks) on cloud infrastructure cybersecurity.
- Stefano Taborelli, on routing and forwarding strategies in non-terrestrial networks.
- Davide Avesani, on Net for GenAI and GenAI for Networks.
- Edoh Koukouvi, on smart buildings.
- Aboudol Manaf Issifou, on connected robots automation.
- Zeidan Braik (with UPSaclay), on multi-resource allocation.
- Clément Duchesne, (with Thales) on network security.
Network/system engineers
- Masoud Baharlouei, on network automation platform.
- Jacopo Bufalino, on container security.
Project Manager
- Joaquin Bayona, on project management.
Adjunct members
- Prosper Chemouil, IEEE life fellow, Orange retired.
- Soumya Banerjee, R&D engineer at Trasna Solutions.
- Yacine Benchaïb, Contract Professor at CNAM en Grand Est.
- Youakim Badr, Full Professor at Penn State, USA.
- Jae Yun Jun Kim, Associate Professor at ECE.
- Selma Boumerdassi. Associated researcher. Full Professor, Univ. Paris 8.
External co-advised Ph.D. candidates
- Imène El-Taani (USTHB, Alger) on Deep Reinforcement Learning based placement in the Cloud.
Research interns
- 2025: Hassan Chreif,Kristina Paschenko, Amir Rezzaq, Jiajie Xu, Nacir Ibraimo, Mahmoud Mayaleh, Wahib Kanaan, Sheela Davi, Youssef El Amine, Nahom Getachew, Myriam Raad, Kim Reachna, Sahil Sartaj, Seonho Kim, Mehdi Djerbua, Nardos Hadis, Labiba Farooq (Cnam); Sarah Brahiti, Younes Ifourah, Cylia Messar, Elissa Tagzirt (ESI); Eya Zineddine (UNICA); Andrea Raffaeli (UNIBO).
- 2024: Ali Moheed Kayani (Cnam), Moussa Guemdani (Cnam), Yufei Zhong (Cnam), Chen David (ESIEE), Kareneh Zolfaghari (Cnam), Naim Maouche (Cnam), Dédé Kinsiona (Cnam).
- 2023: Imed Eddine Boukari (ESI), Ihab Abderrahmane Derdouha (ESI), Idriss Hamzaoui (ESI), Hussein Hamdouna (Cnam), Jeongku Choi (Cnam), Maritzabel Del Pozo (SU), Srour Ali (Cnam), Kayani Moheed Ali (Cnam), Guemdani Moussa (Cnam), Zhang Haoxuan (Cnam), Fatemeh Salmaniseyedmahalle (Cnam), Zifeng Zhang (Cnam).
- 2022: Augustin Clero, Ali Awarkeh, David Kule Mukuhi, Zifeng Zhang, Zisen Xu, Farnaz Ebrahimishad, Hussein Khalil, Ali Marwa (Cnam); Rezak Aziz(ESI), Saloua Bouabba(ESI), Lilia Mezani(ESI), Leticia Sadi(ESI), Céline Serbouh (ESI).
- 2021: Raphael Tetu (ESIEA), Mario Patetta (POLIMI), Corentin Lanousse-Malhene (ISEP), Lydia Ouaili, Yaniss Khima (IUT de Cachan), Charles Yazbeck (ESIEE), Haddouti Yasmine (SU), Sheadeh Fadi (SU).
- 2020: Eugenio Cortesi (POLIMI), Mourya Gonchi Keshava (POLIMI), Alexandre Thomas (ESIEE), Weiquiang Zhang (ESIEE), Maria Isabella Viola (POLIMI), Laiza De Lara (ISEP/UFP).
- 2019: Giulia Bissoli (POLIMI), Davide Aureli (Univ. Rome I – La Sapienza), Federico Lavatori (POLIMI), Jamal Ammouri (Cnam), Luong Vuong Son (Cnam), Said Haddoudi (Cnam), Maya Adjaz (Dauphine).
Team management responsibilities
- ROC Seminars: Pengwelong Gu
- Private cloud management: Masoud Baharlouei, Chi-Dung Phung.
- New members arrival management: Maham Kayani, Razak Aziz.
- Office space management: Kilian Cressant, Thierry N’kouka.
- Webservices and publications management: Patient Ntumba, Naresh Modina, Ali Kayani.
- Hardware management: Masoud Baharlouei, Ali Srour, Moussa Guemdani.
Former members
- Abdelhak Hidouri
- PhD. 2025.
- Lydia Ouaili
- PhD. 2024. Now ICT expert at NIST.
- Tayssir Ismail
- PhD. 2024.
- Mustapha Kamal Benramdane
- PhD with ISID team. 2025.
- Kautar Sadouki
- PhD with ISID team. 2025.
- Christophe Maudoux
- PhD. 2024. Now ICT expert at Gendarmerie Nationale and PAST at Cnam.
- Yacine Anser
- Ph.D. 2024. Now postdoc at KTH.
- Yulliwas Ameur
- Ph.D. 2023. Now professor at EFREI.
- Nour El Houda Yellas,
- Ph.D. 2023. Now Associate Professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, TSP.
- Davide Raimondi,
- System technician. 2022-2023. Now M.Sc. student at Università di Pavia.
- Alessandro Aimi
- Ph.D. 2023. Now postdoc at Università di Bologna.
- Kiranpreet Kaur
- Ph.D. 2023. Now R&D engineer at Dassault Systems.
- Guilherme Iecker Ricardo
- Postdoc 2023. Now Associate Professor at INP Toulouse.
- José Lopez Esteves
- Ph.D. 2023 (VAE), on communications security, now senior expert at ANSSI.
- Mamoudou Sangare
- Ph.D. 2022, on vehicular networks. Now ass. prof. at ECAM.
- Nabila Djennane
- Ph.D. 2021, on cloud resource allocation.
- Mohammed Nafi,
- Ph.D. 2021, on key management for IoT. Now assistant professor at Béjaia Univ., Algeria.
- Alessio Diamanti,
- Ph.D. 2021, on network automation. Now 5G expert at SWISSCOM.
- Marianna Belotti,
- Ph.D. 2021, on blockchain modeling. Now Analyst at European Central Bank.
- Wesley Coelho,
- Ph.D 2021, on 5G orchestration. Now senior researcher at Pasqal.io.
- Agathe Blaise,
- PhD 2020, on anomaly detection. Now senior researcher at Thales.
- Sarra Mehamel,
- PhD 2020, on mobile edge computing. Now postdoc.
- Paolo Zappalà,
- predoc 2020, on blockchain network modeling. Now Ph.D. at Orange/UAvignon.
- Francesca Fossati,
- postdoc 2020, on 5G resource allocation. Now Ass. Professor at Sorbonne University.
- Frédéric Lemoine,
- PhD 2019, on self-healing IoT devices. Now permanent IT engineer at Cnam.
- Youcef Ould-Yahia,
- PhD 2019, on security models for data privacy in IoT systems.
- Loic Perennou,
- PhD 2019, on cloud load prediction. Now R&D engineer at Outscale
- Nikola Bozic,
- PhD 2019, on cloud orchestration security. Now Expert at Strategy&.
- Amar Abane,
- PhD 2019, on Named Data Networking for IoT. Now postdoc at NIST, USA.
Former Members
- Françoise Sailhan
- now Full Professor at IMT Atlantique, Brest.
- Jean-Michel Douin
- Associate Professor, retired.
- Claude Kaiser,
- retired, Adjunct Professor.
- Nicolas Trèves,
- retired, Adjunct Researcher.
- Bilal Maaz,
- Associate Professor, Cnam Lebanon, now Sorbonne Abu Dhabi.
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