We list here the researchers who were part of and contributed to ERC NEMO
Senior Researchers
François BACCELLI
François Baccelli’s research directions are at the interface between Applied Mathematics and Communications. He is co-author of research monographs on point processes and stochastic geometry, point processes and queues, max plus algebras and network dynamics, stochastic geometry and wireless networks.
He received the Math+ECE Award of the Simons Foundation in 2012. He started the ERC NEMO project in 2019. He is now an emeritus senior researcher at INRIA Paris and an Emeritus professor at Télécom Paris in France He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Bartlomiej BLASZCZYSZYN
Bartłomiej Błaszczyszyn received his PhD and Habilitation degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Wrocław, Poland, in 1995 and 2008, respectively. He is currently a Senior Researcher with Inria, member of the Computer Science Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and teaching at PSL and Sorbonne University. His is interested in random network models. He works both on theoretical developments (clustering, correlations, limit theory for point processes, percolation) and on applications (performance evaluation of communication networks using information theory, queueing theory and stochastic geometry). He coauthored more than 80 papers and conference proceedings on these subjects in major international journals and conferences. He is involved in several book projects including the two-volume Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks (NOW Publishers, jointly with F. Baccelli), Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Cellular Networks (Cambridge University Press, jointly with M. Haenggi, P. Keeler, and S. Mukherjee), Random Geometric Models (available online), Random Measures, Point Processes, and Stochastic Geometry (available online, jointly with F. Baccelli and M.K. Karray).
Contact: Mail
Personal page : www.di.ens.fr/~blaszczy
Junior Researchers
Ali KHEZELI
Ali Khezeli’s field of research is probability theory and he is mainly focusing on stochastic geometry and the theory of unimodular random graphs. He received his PhD from Sharif University of Technology in 2016. He has also been a researcher in the University of Texas at Austin (2015-2016) and IPM (2016-2018). He was a researcher (SRP) in Inria from 2021 to 2024. He is now again a researcher at IPM.
Contact: Mail
Publications: Google Scholar
Nahuel SOPRANO-LOTO
Nahuel Soprano-Loto’s research focuses on probability theory, specifically on interacting particle systems and on control and performance analysis of stochastic networks. Recently, his interests also include stochastic geometry and community detection. He received his PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, and subsequently held research positions at the Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy) and the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (France). He currently holds a long-term position at Inria Paris funded in part by ERC NEMO.
Contact: Mail
Personal: webpage
Postdoctoral Fellows
Simon COSTE
Simon Coste got his PhD under the supervision of Charles Bordenave and Justin Salez in 2019. He was a postdoc at NEMO in 2019 ans 2010. His research was focused on spectral properties of random objects like graphs, point processes and matrices, and their links with other properties such as number variances, bottleneck ratios, unimodularity. He is now a permanent researcher (MCF) in mathematics at Université de Paris (P7, LPSM).
Ke FENG
Ke Feng received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, in 2022. She received her B.E. degree in electronic engineering and information science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016. She was a postdoctoral fellow under the ERC NEMO project at INRIA, Paris, France from 2021 to 2024. Her scientific interests include wireless networks, communications, and stochastic models. She held research internships with FutureWei R&D, New Jersey, in 2018 and Qualcomm wireless R&D, San Diego, in 2020. She is now a CNRS chargée de recherche at ETIS.
Contact: Mail
Personal page : https://sites.google.com/view/kfeng
Sanket S. KALAMKAR
Sanket S. Kalamkar received the B.Tech. degree from the College of Engineering Pune, India, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, India. He was a Simons Post-Doctoral Fellow with The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. He was a ERC NEMO Researcher with INRIA, Paris, France from 2019 to 2022. His research interests include wireless communications, spectrum sharing, vehicular networks, and green communications. He received the Tata Consultancy Services Research Fellowship and the Dhirubhai Ambani Scholarship. Sanket Kalamkar is now a researcher with Qualcomm in San Diego, California.
Contact: Mail Personal page : https://skalamkar.github.io/
Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar
Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar obtained his Masters degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2014 and completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics, from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2020. He was employed as a Visiting Scientist at Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore from January 2020 to March 2021. He was working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the research group: Probabilistic Methods for Dynamic Communication Networks at Weierstrass Institute for applied analysis and Stochastics, Berlin until August 2023. He was working as Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-NEMO research group under the research group Dynamic Geometric Networks (DYOGENE/MATHNET) at INRIA, Paris until January 2025. Currently he is working as a Postdoc at Lincs, Telecom Paris. His research interests include Stochastic geometry, continuum percolation, Poisson approximation in random graphs, Large deviation principle on tele-communication and wireless communication networks and handover frequency estimation in terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks.
PhD Students
Michel DAVYDOV
Michel Davydov was a PhD student under the supervision of François Baccelli. He was partly funded by ERC NEMO. He obtained a Masters degree in Probability at Sorbonne Université and graduated from École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay in 2019. After two internships in the field of stochastic geometry, he joined ERC NEMO as a PhD student working on “Point process based markovian dynamics and their applications”. He is in particular interested in applications of stochastic geometry to the field of neuroscience. He is currently a postdoc at Brown Universtity under the supervision of Pr. Kavita Ramanan.
Contact: Mail Personal page : https://sites.google.com/view/mdavydov/home
Sayeh KHANIHA
Sayeh Khaniha graduated from Sharif University of Technology in 2017. Her master’s work was focused on random walks in a stochastic environment. She started her Ph.D. at Sharif University of technology and after completing her coursework, she joined ERC NEMO in February 2019 to start her research work as a cotutelle Ph.D. student. She is working on “Doeblin Trees” and its relation to perfect sampling under the supervision of François Baccelli and Mir-Omid Haji-Mirsadeghi.
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Pierre POPINEAU
Pierre Popineau graduated from Mines ParisTech in Geostatistics and Applied Probabilities in 2018. He worked for the Statistics Directorate at OECD and for the Center for SME, Entrepreneurship, Cities and Regions. He joined ERC Nemo in February 2019 to work on spatial birth-and-death processes and bandwidth part models. He started his PhD under the supervision of François Baccelli in February 2020 on “Dynamics of Spatial birth-and-death processes”. He also worked on 5G cellular networks. He is currently a researcher with Constellation Technologies, where he is working on NTN. Contact: Mail
Paul RAX
Paul Rax is a PhD student who joined ERC NEMO in september 2024, under the supervision of François Baccelli and Raphaël Lachièze-Rey. He graduated from ENS de Lyon in 2024 after getting his master degree in probability (Mathématiques de l’Aléatoire) from Université Paris-Saclay in 2022. After two interships on random graphs (at LPSM with Sébastien Martineau and David García-Zelada , and at Universität Innsbruck with Alexander Glazman), he joined the INRIA team MATHNET for a PhD, where he is working on random geometry models for communication networks. Mail
Bharath ROY CHOUDHURY
He is currently a postdoc in the department of Mathematics in the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Contact: Mail
Philippe SAROTTE
Philippe Sarotte graduated from Télécom Paris with a double degree in Probability, obtained at Orsay (“Mathématiques de l’aléatoire”) in 2024. He then took his first steps in stochastic geometry during an internship at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, within the WNCG team. He is now starting a PhD, partly funded by the ERC NEMO, under the joint supervision of F. Baccelli and N. Soprano-Loto. His current research focuses on stochastic models for studying dynamic networks.
Contact: Mail
Guodong SUN
Guodong Sun graduated from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in 2020 with an MSc in Information and Communication Technology and from Wuhan University (China) in 2017 with a B.E. in Electrical Engineering.
From 2021 to 2024, he was a doctoral student funded by a CIFRE project with Nokia Networks France and partially funded by the ERC NEMO project with INRIA. He was jointly supervised by Francois Baccelli, Luis Uzeda Garcia, and Stefano Paris.
His research interests include performance analysis of wireless networks using stochastic geometry, with a focus on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
He also developed high-performance numerical solvers for performance analysis of wireless networks using stochastic geometry.
Contact: Mail
Research Engineers
Thibault Labatide-Alanore
Thibault Labatide-Alanore joined INRIA for 6 months in September 2022. The focus of his work is on mean-field techniques. The first aim, under the supervision of Christine Fricker, is to prove mean-field convergence for the migration-contagion process.
Emamuele Mengoli
Emanuele Mengoli is an incoming PhD candidate at Télécom Paris and Inria Paris, where he will specialize in stochastic modeling for wireless networks under the guidance of François Baccelli and Laurent Decreusefond.
He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from École Polytechnique.
Currently, Emanuele serves as an R&D Engineer at Inria, contributing to the EU-funded ERC NEMO and SNS – INSTINCT projects.
His work focuses on exploring and modeling the interplay between communication and sensing in Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) systems for 6G networks.
Emanuele’s research interests include satellite networks and next-generation 6G wireless networks.
His PhD will be funded by the PEPR Networks of the Future through the FOUND Project.
Contact:
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Personal website:
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Interns
Ahmad ALAMMOURI (NEMO Visiting PhD Student – Chateaubriand Fellow)
Ahmad AlAmmouri received his B.Sc. degree (with Hons.) from the University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, in 2014 and his M.Sc. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, in 2016, both in Electrical Engineering. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA, where he is part of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and Simons Center for Mathematics of Networks. He has held summer internships at Samsung Research America, Richardson, TX, in 2017 and 2018, and was a visiting researcher at INRIA, Paris, in 2019 and 2020. He was awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship by the French Embassy in the USA and the Professional Development Award by UT Austin, both in 2019, and the WNCG student leadership award in 2020. He was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2017 and by IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2017 and 2018. His research interests include statistical modeling and performance analysis of wireless networks. He spent 4 months at INRIA in 2020. Contact: Mail
