News

• HUBiquitous launch: go!!! – December 1, 2021

  We launch our new project: Hubiquitous! HUBiquitous aims at creating a joint Africa-Europe Startup & Innovation Ecosystem for long-term collaborations and partnerships. It’s a “hub” thing again ;)

• Waziup e.V. – January 1, 2019

  With a couple of long-date friends, we gathered in Dresden to launch a new initiative called Waziup e.V. WAZIUP e.V is a non-profit organization promoting cutting-edge technologies and capacity building toward emerging countries. We are engaged in IoT capacity building for startups and entrepreneurs via bootcamps, workshops and hackathons; enabling them to build low-cost and innovative IoT products. Whish us luck!

• Accelerate all the things! – April 20, 2018

  We are all gathering in Kampala, Uganda to launch our new project: WAZIHUB! This project follows WAZIUP (don’t mix them!). We will “accelerate” all the ideas and technologies developped in the previous project. This means lauching many startups using IoT technologies in Africa!

• CloudCom – December 16, 2016

  I participated in CloudCom conference. We presented a demo called “PaaS4IoT”: a neat prototype combining Cloud, IoT and edge computing!

• Doctor! – April 28, 2016

  Just finished the exam for PhD award today! Several years of work reaching to an end… You can find the complete thesis here, and the talk slides here.

• Thesis handed out! – March 20, 2016

  I just handed out my PhD thesis “Energy Adaptive Infrastructure for Sustainable Cloud Data Centres”! Wow that feels good!

• Back to Africa – February 2, 2016

  Today we launch our new project called WAZIUP. It’s a cooperation EU-Africa on Internet of Things and Big Data. We are all in Dakar for this exiting event!

• Chairing the IoT360 Summer School – October 30, 2015

  I’m chairing the IoT360 Summer school this week. Nice experience!

• IoT360 Hackathon – October 30, 2015

  The last day of the IoT360 Summer school is a Hackathon. We have experts from Viper and Libelium to assist us and provide all the necessary equipement!

• DC4Cities video – September 21, 2015

  My project DC4Cities issued a new video! I am featuring in it! Check around 1’30 ;)

  

• Paper accepted in Utility and Cloud Computing conference – September 13, 2015

  My paper was accepted in the Utility and Cloud Computing conference to be held in Cyprus in Decembre.

• Poster in ICT4S/EnviroInfo conference – September 7, 2015

  I just presented my poster in ICT4S/EnviroInfo conference in Copenhagen. It was very nicely organised. The format was different than usual boring conferences, each paper being resented in ConverStations.

• DC4Cities second review meeting – September 1, 2015

  We just finished the second review meeting with the European commission! We were grilled with questions, but at the end it went OK.

• Haskell presentation @ CN – May 25, 2015

  I presented the Haskell programming language at Create-Net. Check-out the slides!

• International Winter School on Big Data – January 26, 2015

  I attended BigDat 2015, a winter school on big data. The subject is popular (and vaguely defined sometime), it was packed with students. Some of the courses that most interrested me: big data programming (Hadoop, Spark, Storm), big data visualization, social networks.

• DC4Cities first year review accepted! – October 23, 2014

  We went to Brussels to present the work done in the first year of the project in front of two reviewers and the project officer of the European Commission. That went very well! All deliverables are accepted.

• Paper accepted in Ad Hoc Networks Journal – August 22, 2014

  My paper “Plug4Green: A Flexible Energy-aware VM Manager to Fit Data Centre Particularities” has been accepted for publication in the Ad Hoc Networks Journal, special edition on Energy-Aware Data Centers! This is a great achievement since this is my first journal paper. Ad Hoc Networks is a very good journal. We present in this paper our prototype “Plug4Green”, an energy-aware VM manager based on Constraint Programming.

• Paper accepted at E2DC 2014 – June 10, 2014

  My paper “Building Application Profiles to Allow a Better Usage of the Renewable Energies in Data Centres” has been accepted at the workshop E2DC 2014 (colocated with E-Energy conference)! In fact I will present it this very afternoon in Cambridge, UK. I’m getting used to this workshop and conference since it’s the third time I’m attending :)

• Nomyx presented at Zurihac 2014 – June 7, 2014

  I attended Zurihac 2014, in which I presented my game Nomyx for the first time in front of 50 fellow Haskellers. We also started a tutorial session and a tournament during the event! This was an amazing experience.

• PhD Research proposal accepted! – January 21, 2014

  I successfully passed my qualifying exam! I had to submit a paper with my research proposal, plus preliminary results, to the examination comitee. I presented my research proposal to this jury. It was accepted! Now, on to second year of PhD.

• DC4Cities started! – September 1, 2013

  A cool project aiming at better using renewable energies in data centres. Gartner estimated that the global impact of the ICT sector is 2% of the global CO2 emissions, which is approximately the same as fuel consumption from the airline industry. Among that, data centres are tremendous energy consumers, regardless of what type of energy it is (green or fossile). Our objective is to research new technologies to foster a better usage of renewable energies in data centres. The main idea is to shift the workload in the data centre to make it run when the renewable energies are available (for example, when the sun is shining for solar energy).