Jamila Sam

Jamila Sam is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). She holds positions in the Systems and Infrastructure (SIN) and Communication Systems (SSC) departments, focusing on teaching and research. Her roles include membership in the Conference of the Teaching Staff (CCE) and administrative responsibilities within EPFL’s academic structure.

Her research interests revolve around constraint programming, numerical optimization, and distributed systems, with a particular emphasis on interval analysis, constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), and algorithm design. She has contributed to advancements in numerical methods, global optimization, and distributed constraint satisfaction protocols such as backjumping and dynamic ordering techniques.

Jamila Sam has authored and co-authored over 30 publications, including works on interval propagation, branch-and-prune strategies, and clustering techniques for numerical problems. Her articles span topics like directed acyclic graphs for constraint solving, approximation methods for non-linear systems, and distributed algorithms for collaborative design.

In teaching, she instructs courses such as Introduction to Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, and Information, Calculation, Communication, though these course sheets are pending validation. Her academic contributions also extend to administrative roles, including membership in EPFL’s CCE, which oversees teaching policies and staff coordination.