Sara Bouchenak - INSA Lyon

Professor of Computer Science at INSA Lyon.

Director of the Federation of Computer Science Research Laboratories in Lyon - Saint Étienne.

Committee Chair of Women in Computing Science, at the Department of Computer Science - INSA Lyon.

Academic Program Chair of the "Cloud Computing - Distributed Big Data Systems" program at the Department of Computer Science - INSA Lyon.

Member of the LIRIS laboratory, DRIM research group.

Short bio

Dependable, Privacy-Preserving and Robust Distributed Systems and Distributed/Federated Learning

Coordinator of the CITADEL ANR Project (2024 - 2028)
TARANIS PEPR Cloud Computing (2024 - 2030)
M4DI PEPR Digital Health (2023 - 2027)
ByBlos ANR Project (2021 - 2025)
Head of the Industry Research Labs SIBIL-Lab ANR LabCom (2018 - 2023)

Expert Evaluator for the European Commission, since 2009
Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2020 - 2021
Director of the Federation of Computer Science Research Laboratories in Lyon - Saint Étienne (FIL - Fédération Informatique de Lyon), 2021 - 2025
Member of the Scientific Committee of ANR, on Sciences & Software - Networks and High-Performance Computing, 2019 - 2022
Member of the Board of Directors of the French Computer Science Society (Société Informatique de France - SIF), since 2020
Member of the Scientific Committee of SHAPE-Med@Lyon, Structuring one Health Approach for Personnalized Medicine, since 2023
Member of the Scientific Committee of Minalogic Innovation Cluster, since 2014

Invited keynote speaker at the ComPAS 2024 Conference, Nantes, France, July 2024.
Invited keynote speaker at the Summer school & Days on distributed learning, Lyon, France, September 2023.
Invited at Workshop - Women in Big Data, IBM Zurich, Switzerland, June 2018.
Invited talk at CNRS GDR RSD - ACM SIGOPS France Winter School on Distributed Systems and Networks, "Dependability and Privacy in the Era of Big Data", Pleynet, France, March 2018.
Panel speaker at the 36th IEEE SRDS 2017, "Reliability and Security in the era of Big Data and IoT", Hong Kong, China, September 29, 2017.
Invited talk at the 9th Cloud Control Workshop, "Benchmarking Big Data Distributed Systems", Örsundsbro, Sweden, June 2016.