About
Gaël Thomas is a Senior Researcher at Inria Saclay and a part-time Professor at École Polytechnique. He leads the Benagil team, a joint initiative between Inria and Telecom SudParis/IP Paris. His research focuses on virtualization, operating systems, concurrency, and runtime systems, with an emphasis on improving system performance and safety. He holds a PhD and Habilitation from Sorbonne Université and has extensive academic experience, including roles as a Professor at Telecom SudParis (2014–2023) and an Associate Professor at UPMC (2006–2014).
Education:
- PhD in Computer Science, 2005, UPMC Sorbonne Université
- Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), 2012, UPMC Sorbonne Université
- MSc in Computer Science, 2001, MIAIF Program
Research Interests: Gaël’s work spans virtualization techniques, NUMA architecture optimization, garbage collection scalability, lock-free algorithms, and persistent memory systems. He has pioneered solutions like J-NVM for Java NVMM and NumaGiC for big data systems.
Grants & Awards:
- Principal Investigator of DiVA (PEPR Cloud, 868k€) and Maplurinum (ANR PRC, 184k€)
- Contributions to VMKit and infra-web-cours development
Labs/Teams: Benagil Team (Inria/Telecom SudParis) focuses on systems and runtime optimization.
