The ROC team is hosting talk by Juan A. Fraire, Researcher at INRIA, France.
When: October 15, 2026 from 16h00 to 18h00
Where: Room 33.1.53 at CNAM, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France
Speaker: Juan A. Fraire (INRIA, France)
Title: AI for Space, Space for AI: The Rise and Limits of the Space Cloud
Abstract: Satellites are turning from bent-pipe relays into computing infrastructure: an NVIDIA H100 has already run LLM inference in orbit, and orbital data-center filings count satellites by the hundreds of thousands. This talk presents our contributions to putting this race on a scientific footing, along two converging axes. AI for Space brings learning and optimization to satellite network operations, from AI-assisted fleet management to federated learning onboard resource-constrained satellites. Space for AI studies the orbital infrastructure hosting computing itself: Space Cloud architectures, optimal design of space-based data center constellations, and emulation platforms to rehearse in-orbit edge computing on the ground. Carbon-footprint models then expose the central open question: can non-repairable orbital infrastructure be both dependable and sustainable?
Bio: Juan A. Fraire is a researcher at INRIA (France) and a guest professor at CONICET-UNC (Argentina) and Saarland University (Germany). His core areas of interest are near-Earth and deep-space networking and informatics, with more than 120 publications in international journals and at leading conferences. Juan is co-chair of the Systems and Protocol Aspects for Circumstellar Environments (SPACE) Research Group at the IETF, the co-founder and chair of the Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT), and participates in diverse joint projects with space agencies (e.g., NASA, ESA, CONAE) and companies in the space sector (e.g., D3TN, Skyloom).
