Guillaume Pierre

Guillaume Pierre is a Professor and research leader at Univ Rennes, affiliated with Inria, CNRS, and IRISA, where he leads the Magellan research team. He is based at the Institute of Science and Technology of Information and Communication (ISTIC), Department of Computer Science and Electronics. His research focuses on fog computing, cloud computing, and large-scale distributed systems, with applications in scalable web hosting and edge intelligence.

Research Interests:

• Fog and Edge Computing
• Cloud Computing and Resource Management
• Scalable Web Application Hosting
• Peer-to-Peer and Decentralized Systems
• Stream Processing and Kubernetes Orchestration
• Elasticity and Energy Efficiency in Distributed Environments

His recent publications highlight a strong trend in geo-distributed systems, particularly focusing on Kubernetes cluster federation, fog-based environmental monitoring, and elasticity in stream processing. His work bridges theoretical advances with practical implementations in real-world fog and cloud infrastructures.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (2005)
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2014)

Guillaume Pierre has advised numerous PhD students, many of whom now hold positions at Google, Amazon, Ericsson, and Ansys. He has coordinated major research projects such as the H2020 FogGuru initiative and the DiPET project on distributed data stream processing. His work is supported by EU funding and institutional collaborations.

Labs and Teams: He leads the Magellan research team at the INRIA/IRISA lab, which is at the forefront of innovation in fog and cloud computing technologies.