Ahmed BOUBRIMA

Dr. Ahmed Boubrima is a tenured faculty researcher at Inria (AGORA team, Lyon, France) since 2023, specializing in sensor networks, drone networks, and environmental sensing. He holds a Ph.D. from INSA Lyon (2019) and master's degrees from École Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algiers (2015). His research focuses on optimizing wireless sensor network deployment for environmental monitoring, with applications in urban air quality and autonomous drone systems. Boubrima has led projects like the ASTRO postdoc at Rice University (2019-2022) and contributed to initiatives at the University of Ottawa as a visiting researcher.

Research Interests:

• Design of energy-efficient sensing platforms for environmental monitoring
• Autonomous data-driven sensing via networked drones
• Optimization models for sensor network deployment
• Resilient environmental mapping using UAVs

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at ACM DroNet@MobiSys 2020
• Best Paper Award at UNET 2016
• IEEE ComSoc France Chapter Prize (2015)

Advising & Teaching: Supervises PhD students and mentors over 20 graduate researchers. Teaches networking courses at INSA Lyon's Telecommunications Department, including Fundamentals of Computer Networking and Performance Analysis.

Labs/Teams: Leads the AGORA team at Inria, focusing on algorithmic game theory and networked systems. Collaborates with global institutions on environmental sensing and drone networks.