Fen Zhou

Fen Zhou 

Fen Zhou, Ph.D, HDR
Associate Professor, SMIEEE
CERI, University of Avignon, France
Email: fen.zhou AT{univ-avignon}.fr

Collaborators

Current PhD Students

  • Mohamed Madani (Feb. 2022 -, Beyond 5G project (BPI France, Plan de relance))

    • PhD Registration at IMT Nord Europe / University of Lille

    • Resilient Service Function Chaining (SFC) for next generation mobile networks

    • Co-advising with Prof. Ahmed Meddahi (PR, IMT NE)

  • Yuanhao Liu (Sept. 2019- 2022, Campus France Eiffel + CSC + Perdiguier scholarship of UAPV)

    • PhD Registration at XiDian University and University of Avignon (UAPV)

    • Disaster Prediction and Resilience for Optical Inter-DataCenter Networks

    • Co-advising with Prof. Tao Shang (XDU), and Juan-Manuel Torres (MCF-HDR, UAPV)

Past co-supervised PhD students and Visiting PhD students

  • Amina Bensalem (Oct. 2019- Jul. 2022 , scholarship of University of Batna 2)

    • PhD degree of the Univ. of Mostefa Ben Boulaid (Batna 2), Algeria

    • Energy Efficency and Mobility in Unmanned Aerial Ad-hoc Network.

    • Co-advising with Prof. Djallel Eddine Boubiche (Univ. Batna2)

  • Cao Chen (Oct. 2017- Oct. 2021, Campus France Eiffel + CSC + UAPV Special Covid PhD contract)

    • PhD degree of the Univ. of Avignon (France)

    • Physical-Layer-Impairement Aware Routing and Spectrum Assignment in Flexiable Optical Networks

    • Co-advising with Prof. Shilin Xiao (SJTU)

  • Mayeul Mathias (Oct. 2014- Jan. 2021, MESR + ANR)

    • PhD degree of the Univ. of Avignon (France)

    • Co-advising with Juan-Manuel Torres (MCF, HDR) and Didier Josselin (DR CNRS)

    • Recommendation Systems for Personalized City Tours: Natural Language Processing and Routing Optimization

    • Now Research Engineer on network virtulization at Ekinops, Sofia Antipolis, France

  • Yuexiu Xing (Sept. 2019 - Sept. 2020, PHC Cai Yuanpei)

    • PhD degree of Southeast University (China)

    • IoT-based Intelligent Cane and user identification

    • Co-advising with Prof. Aiqun Hu (SEU), and Ting Wang (ESIEE Paris/Univ. Gustave Eiffel)

    • Now Assistant Professor at Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

  • Jiabao Yu (Sept. 2018-June. 2020, Campus France Eiffel and PHC Cai Yuanpei)

    • PhD degree of Southeast University (China)

    • Radio Frequency Fingerprinting for IoTs

    • Co-advising with Prof. Aiqun Hu (SEU)

    • Now permanent researcher at Purple Mountain Research Center, Nanjing, China

  • Haitao Wu (Sept. 2015- Nov. 2018, Campus France Eiffel + CSC + Perdiguier scholarship of UAPV)

    • PhD degree of the Univ. of Avignon (France)

    • Co-advising with Prof. Yaojun Chen (NJU) and Asso. Prof. Juan-Manuel Torres (MCF-HDR, UAPV)

    • Approximation Algorithms Design and Analysis in Elastic Optical Networks (EONs)

    • Now prediction research engineer at E-Fund Management, Ltd., Shanghai China

  • Amine Ait Ouahmed (Oct. 2014-Oct. 2018, PACA Regional project)

    • PhD degree of the University of Avignon (France)

    • Co-advising with Didier Josselin (DR CNRS, UAPV)

    • Multi-Criteria Optimization for Car Sharing systems with Electric Vehicles

    • Research engineer at INRIA Sophia Antipolis (2018-2019)

    • Now permanent research engineer at Instant System Inc, France

  • Fatima Bousbaa (Oct. 2012-2018, Mobility Scholarship of Laghouat University)

    • PhD Registration at the Univ. Laghouat (Algeria)

    • Co-advising with Mohamed Bachir Yagoubi (Prof, Univ. Laghouat, Algeria)

    • Geocast/multicast routing of alert messages in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

    • Now Associate Professor at Univ. Laghouat, Algeria

  • Omar Sami Oubbati (Oct. 2016- Feb. 2018, Campus France Profas B+)

    • PhD degree of the Univ. Laghouat (Algeria)

    • Co-advising with Mohamed Bachir Yagoubi (Prof, Univ. Laghouat, Algeria), and Abderrahmane Lakas (UAE)

    • UAV-Assisted Routing for VANETs

    • Now Associate Professor at Univ. Laghouat, Algeria

  • Min Ju (Sept. 2014- Jan. 2018, Campus France Eiffel + CSC + Perdiguier scholarship of UAPV)

    • PhD. degree of the University of Avignon (France)

    • Co-advising with Prof. Shilin Xiao (SJTU) and Asso. Prof. Juan-Manuel Torres (MCF-HDR, UAPV)

    • Routing and Failure Protection in Elastic Optical Networks

    • (2018-2019) Post-doc at the I3S lab of the University of Nice, France

    • (2019-2020)) permanent researcher at Huawei Wireless Research Center, Shanghai, China

    • (2021-) Assistant professor Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China

  • Weihua Wu (Sept. 2016- Dec. 2017, Campus France Eiffel Scholarship)

    • PhD. degree of the XiDian University (China)

    • Co-advising with Qinghai Yang (Prof, XiDian Univ)

    • Resource Allocation in VLC/RF Networks

    • Now Associate professor at XiDian University, XiAn, China, and visiting scholar at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

  • Anderson Silva (Jan. 2013- Dec. 2016, )

    • PhD. degree of the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

    • Co-advising with Sergio Takeo Kofugi (Prof, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil)

    • An Architecture to Grouping Security Controls in Information Technology Environments Based on Unrestricted Cooperative Bargains

    • Now Associate Professor at Universidade Paulista (UNIP) and Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnologicas (IPT), Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Elvis Pontes (Jan. 2013- Nov. 2015, Campus France Science Without Border)

    • Co-advising with Sergio Takeo Kofugi (Prof, Univ. Sao Paulo, Brazil)

    • Security in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs)

    • Passed away on Nov. 2015

  • Jiayi Liu (Oct. 2010- Nov. 2013, FP7 CNG)

    • PhD. degree of Telecom Bretagne/ University of Rennes 1 (France)

    • Co-advising with Gwendal Simon and Antoine Beugnard (Telecom Bretagne)

    • Multiple Live Video Delivery in Underprovisioned Networks

    • Now Associate Professor at XiDian University, China

  • Houssem Eddine Hadji (visiting student from University of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria): Oct-Nov 2014, Dec. 2019 (Resouce Allocation optimization)

    • Now Associate Professor at University of Badji Mokhtar, Algeria

  • Dinh Danh Le (visiting student from University of Montpellier, France): March 2014 (Multicast in WDM networks)

    • Post-doc at Orange Labs (FT) until 2016 and post-doc at Dublin City University, permanent researcher at Erisson Ireland (2017-2018, since 2018)

    • Now Researcher at Erisson, Ireland

  • Seddiki Nouredine (visiting student from University Bechar, Algeria): Nov.-Dec. 2013 (WSN)

  • Hakim Dafeur (visiting student from University Tizi Ouzou, Algeria): Jun. 2013 (WSN)

  • Research Enginners and Master 2 Research Interns

    • Issam Sanjakdar (Master 2 Intern at IMT Lille Douai, Apr.-Sept. 2021): Resilient Network function Chainning

      • Co-advised with Ahmed Meddahi

    • Sixu Cai (Master 2 Intern at ISEP, Feb.-Sept. 2020): Disaster-Resilience for Network function virtualization and Inter-Datacenter Networks

      • Now research engineer in China Telecom

    • Melaz Laifaoui (Master 2 Intern, Feb.-Sept. 2016): Optimization in Transportation networks and Optical Networks

      • Co-advised with Rosa Figueiredo

    • LuLu Yang (Research Master Student at USTC China, Sept. 2013- Mar. 2016): Leveraging Light-Forest with Rateless Network Coding to Design Efficient All-Optical Multicast Schemes for Elastic Optical Networks

      • Co-advised with Zuqing Zhu (Prof. USTC, China)

      • Now network engineer in a Bank in China

    • Amine Ait Ouahmed (Research Engineer, Nov. 2013- Sept. 2014): Optimization in networks

      • Co-advised with Didier Josselin

      • Now PhD student at UAPV

    • Mayeul Mathias (Master 2 Intern, Feb.-Sept. 2014): Personalized visit tour optimization for Museums

      • Co-advised with Juan-Manuel Torres

      • Now PhD student at UAPV

    • Azeddine Cheref (Master 2 Intern, Apr.-Sept. 2013): Multicast in MLR Optical Networks

      • Co-advised with Boris Detienne

      • Now PhD student at the University of Tour

    • Florian Dransart (Master 2 Intern, Jan.-May 2013): Video statistics in Youtube

      • Now Software engineer at Toulouse

    • Komitse Sena Atameklo (Master 1 Intern, Jun.-Jul. 2013): Resillient Video streaming in CDN

      • Now at University of Reims

    Academic Visitors

    • Dr. Guyue Li, Southeast University, China, Dec. 2019 - Feb. 2020.

    • Prof. Yaojun Chen, Nanjing University, China, Jan. - Feb. 2018.

    • Prof. Zuqing Zhu, USTC, China, May 2015.

    • Associate Prof. Rugui Yao, NPU, China, Oct. 2014.

    Master 1 Student Projects

    • P-cycle protection in MLR optical networks (2013-2014), University of Avignon

    • Scalable video streaming in hybrid 4G/Ad-hoc Networks (2013-2014), University of Avignon

    • Demon for minimizing interference of safety message diffusion in VANETs (2013-2014), University of Avignon

    • Video porpularity statistic in Youtube (2013), University of Avignon

    • Power-efficient safety message delivery in VANETs, (2012-2013), University of Avignon

    • Resilient Video streaming in content delivery networks, (2012-2013), University of Avignon

    • Optimal solution for multi-view P2P live streaming using rateless codes in MMOG (2011-2012), Telecom Bretagne

    • Heuristic algorithms for multi-view P2P live streaming using rateless codes in MMOG, (2011-2012), Telecom Bretagne

    • Distributed algorithm design and its convergence proof for P2P live streaming systems, (2011), Telecom Bretagne