Fen Zhou

Fen Zhou 

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

Research Projects

Participation in collaborative industrial project

  • Beyond 5G project (2021-2024)

    • BPI France, French relance Sovereignty in Telecommunications Networks to Accelerate 5G Applications in Vertical Markets

    • Consortium: Thales SIX GTS (Coordinator), IMT, Eurecom

    • Responsable of lot : resilient and secure Service function chaining/slicing

Applications of Financial Supports for PhD students (PI in France)

Coordinators in France: Fen Zhou

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship + China Scholarship Council : Yuanhao Liu (09/2019 - 09/2022)

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship China Scholarship Council UAPV Special Covid PhD contract for: Cao Chen (09/2017 - 06/2021)

  • CSC Scholarship for: Jiannan Guo (09/2019 - 08/2023, given up by the candidate)

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship for: Jiabao Yu (09/2018 - 07/2019)

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship + China Scholarship Council + UAPV Perdiguier Scholarship for: Haitao Wu (09/2015 - 10/2018)

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship + China Scholarship Council + UAPV Perdiguier Scholarship for: Min JU (09/2014 - 01/2018)

  • Campus France Eiffel Scholarship for: Weihua Wu (09/2016 - 07/2017)

  • Campus France ProfasB+ Scholarship for: Omar Sami Oubbati(10/2016 - 05/2017)

  • Campus France Science without Border Scholarship for: Elvis Pontes (01/2014 - 01/2015)

Campus France PHC Cai Yuanpei project: PS2N (06/2019 - 06/2021)

  • Physical layer Security and Survivability in Communication Networks

  • Principle Investigator (coordinator) in France: Fen Zhou

  • Partner in China: Linning Peng (Southeast University), Aiqun Hu, and Guyue Li

  • Bilateral Sino-French research grant from Campus France

  • 1-Year Research Grant for the joint PhD thesis of Yuexiu Xing

  • 1.5-Year Research Grant for the joint PhD thesis of Jiabao Yu

  • 3-Months Research Grant each for two visiting researchers (Dr. Guyue Li and Dr. Linning Peng)

International Collaboration Project with China: E-PENs (01/2017 - 01/2019)

  • Energy-Efficient Routing and Protection in Elastic Optical Networks

  • Principle Investigator (coordinator): Fen Zhou

  • Partner in China: Prof. Shilin Xiao (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

  • Research Grant from State Key Lab of Optical Networks at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Regional Project ESTOC (10/2014 - 10/2017)

  • Optimization for Electrical Vehicular Networks

  • Principle Investigators (coordinators) : Didier Josselin and Fen Zhou

  • 3-Year Research Grant from PACA Region for the PhD thesis of Amine Ait Ouahmed

International Collaboration Project with China: SMILE (2013 - 2016)

  • Supporting MultIcasting in mixed-LinE-rate optical networks

  • Principle Investigator (coordinator): Fen Zhou

  • Research Grant from State Key Lab of Optical Networks at Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

ESTOC (2014 - 2015)

  • Multi-critera Optimization for Electrical Vehicular Networks

  • Principle Investigators (coordinators) : Didier Josselin and Fen Zhou

  • Research Grant from LIA, University of Avignon

@Muse/InfoMuse (2013 - 2015)

  • Recommendation system for personalized visit in Future Museums

  • Participate as a researcher

  • Research Grant from General Council of Vaucluse, Agorantic

PPP (2013 - 2014)

  • P-cycle protection in Mixed Line Rate Optical Network

  • Principle Investigator (coordinator): Fen Zhou

  • Research Grant from University of Avignon

MOTON (2013 - 2014)

  • Multicast Optimization in Transparent Optical Networks with mixed line rates

  • Principle Investigators (coordinators) : Fen Zhou and Boris Detienne

  • Research Grant from LIA, University of Avignon

FP7 CNG (2010 - 2012)

  • Community Network Game

  • Participated as a post-doctoral fellow

  • Research Grant from European FP7

Zewall (2011 - 2012)

  • Collaborative TV Leveraging on Crowd Journalism

  • Participated as a post-doctoral fellow

  • Research Grant from French DGE