Didier El Baz
Dr. Eng. Didier El Baz (HDR),
IEEE Member
"Some of the work done in France in those days was truly visionnary." Prof. Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota, Iterative methods for linear systems of equations: A brief historical journey, 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation, C. Brenner et al. editors, Contemporary Mathematics, AMS, 754, 2020.
Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
Member of Award Committee for Excellence in Scalable Computing for Early-career Researchers, Mid-career Researchers and Outstanding Ph.D Thesis since August 2016.
LAAS-CNRS,
room: E28,
7, avenue du Colonel Roche
31031, Toulouse Cedex 4
France
tel: 33 5 61 33 63 03
E-mail address: elbaz@laas.fr
Co-head of the Laboratory of Information Security of Cyber-physical Systems, 2017-2021.
Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. ITMO University
Kronverksky prospect 49, St Petersburg 197101 Russian Federation.
Head and founder of the Distributed Computing and Asynchronism team 2007-2019.
NVIDIA Corporation support, July 2014.
NVIDIA Academic Partnership, October 2010.
H.D.R. INP Toulouse, 1998.
CNRS research scientist (LAAS-CNRS) since 1985.
MIT visiting scientist, March 1984-february 1985 (LIDS)
Special Summer Program in Data Communication Networks (MIT, 1984).
Dr. Eng. degree in Control Theory, INSA Toulouse, 1984.
Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering INSA Toulouse, 1981.
Recent projects
Project BigGraphs, Labex CIMI 2020-2024.
Information security of cyber-physical systems, International Laboratory, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2017-2021.
PHC Tassili 40160QB: BiGreen, Algorithmes de grands graphes de données sur architecture distribuées ; application au service d'une ville verte, 2018-2020.
Financement Région Occitanie et Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées : DIMSCALE3D, Détection et imagerie des masses d'eau à l'échelle des bassins et de la subsurface par calcul haute performance et inversion conjointe de données sismiques et potentielles, 2018-2021.
CIFRE funding R.Tech: 2013-2016.
Partner of Project ANR: Smart-Blocks, ANR-2011-BS03-005 (Femto-ST, LAAS-CNRS, LIMMS), 2011 - 2015.
NVIDIA Academic Partnership and Support</a>, Octobre 2010, September 2014.
Coordinator of Project ANR CIS CIP, ANR-07-CIS7-011(EMD, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, LAAS-CNRS, MIS, LIFC), 2008-2011.</li>
Partner of Project ANR PSIROB: Smart-Surface, ANR 06 ROBO 0009 (Femto-ST, InESS, LAAS-CNRS, LIFC, LIMMS). 2007 - 2010.
Organization of research
Head and founder of the Distributed Computing and Asynchronism team 2007-2019.
Cohead of International Laboratory Information security of cyber-physical systems, Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University), St. Petersburg, Russia Professor Igor Kotenko, 2017-2021.
Cofounder of the Working Group Knapsack and Optimization, KSO, ROADEF.
Collaborations
CERIST, Algiers (Algeria), PHP Tassili, Professor Ahcène Bendjoudi.
Project: Algorithms for big graphs on distributed memory architectures.
Application to green city, 2018-2020.
University of Science and Technology, Beijing China), Professor Huansheng Ning, International Collaboration Bilatéral Contract on IOT, cyberphysical systems and distributed systems, December 2, 2013-2021.
University of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey (Mexico), Professors Romeo Sanchez Nigenda and Vincent Boyer, 2007-2022.
University of Picardie (France), Professor Mhand Hifi, Toufik Saadi, 2008-2016.
Femto-st (Montbeliard) : Professor Julien Bourgeois, 2008-2016.
NICTA, University of Sidney (Aus), Professor Guillaume Jourjon, 2010-2011.
University of Wuppertal (Ger), Professor Andreas Frommer, 2005-2006.
P.A.R.C., Loughborough University of Technology (G.B.), Professor David J. Evans, 1990-1992.
L.I.D.S., M.I.T.(U.S.A.), Professor Dimitri P. Bertsekas, 1984-1985.
Program Chairman, General Chairman of Conferences:
General Chairman of the 22th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2024), Kaifeng Henan, Repubic of China, October 30, November 2, 2024.
Program Chairman of the 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (IEEE UIC 2022), Haikou, Repubic of China, December, 2022.
Program Chairman of the 13th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2019), Saint-Petersburg, Federation of Russia, October 7-9, 2019.
General Chairman of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2017), 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2017) and Smart World Congress (SWC) 2017.
General Chairman and Local Organizing Chairman of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, the 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, the 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing, the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Internet of People, the Smart World Congress (SWC) 2016
General Chairman of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2015), Porto Portugal, October 21-23, 2015.
Executive Chairman of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom2015), Beijing China, August 10-14, 2015.
Program Chairman of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2014), Chengdu China, December 19-21, 2014.
General Co-Chairman of International Conference IEEE iThings 2013 Beijing, China, August 21-24, 2013
General Chairman on Symposia on Frontiers of Internet of Things, Beijing, China, August 21-24, 2013
Program Vice-Chair for the topic Distributed and Parallel Computing of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Paphos, Cyprus, December 2012.
Program Chairman of the 17th International Conference PDP-2009 in Weimar, Germany.
Program Chairman and Organizing Chairman of the 16th International Conference PDP-2008 in Toulouse.
Workshops Chairman
Workshops Chairman of the 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2014), 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Systems and Software (ICESS 2014), and 6th IEEE International Symposium on Cyberspace safety and Security (CSS 2014), Paris France, August 20-22, 2014.
Workshops Chairman of International Conferences IEEE GreenCom 2012, IEEE CPSCom 2012, and IEEE iThings 2012 Besançon, France, November 2012.
Workshop Chairman
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2025 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Milan, Italy, June 3 - June 7, 2025.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2024 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, San Francisco, USA, May 27 - May 31, 2024.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2023 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS St Petersburg, USA, May 15 - May 19, 2023.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2022 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Lyon, France, May 30 - June 3, 2022.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2021 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Portland, USA, May 17 - 21, 2021.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2020 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS New-Orleans, USA, May 18 - 22, 2020.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, PDCO 2019, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPSRio de Janeiro, Brasil, May 20 - 24, 2019.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization, PDCO 2018 in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Vancouver, Canada, May 21 - 25, 2018.
Founder and Program Chairman of IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization, PDCO 2017, in conjunction withIEEE Symposium IPDPS, Orlando, USA, May 29 - June 2, 2017.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization, PCO'16, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Chicago, USA, May 23, 2016.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization, PCO'15, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Hyderabad, India, May 29, 2015.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization, PCO'14, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Phoenix, USA, May 2014.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization, PCO'13, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Boston, USA, May 2013.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Shanghai, China, May 2012.
Founder and Program Chairman of Workshop Parallel Computing and Optimization, in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Anchorage, USA, 2011.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Many Integrated Core Computing of PDP 2018, Cambridge, UK, March 21-23, 2018.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Many Integrated Core Computing of PDP 2017, St Petersburg, Russia, March 6-8, 2017.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Many Integrated Core Computing of PDP 2016, Heraklion, Greece, February 17-19, 2016.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Many Integrated Core Computing of PDP 2015, Turku, Finland, March 4-6, 2015.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing of PDP 2014 , Torino, Italy, 12-14 February 2014.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Hybrid Computing of PDP 2013, Belfast, Northern Ireland, February-March 2013.
Founder and Program Chairman of Special Session on GPU Computing and Hybrid Computing of PDP 2012, Garching - Munich, Germany 2012.
Chairman of Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems in conjunction with IEEE Symposium IPDPS, Atlanta, USA, 2010.
Program Chairman of special session Méthodes Parallèles ou Distribuées pour la Programmation Entière, ROADEF 2010. Toulouse, 2010
Program Chairman of International Workshop MSOP2Pin conjunction with PDP2010, Pisa, Italy, 2010.
Program Chairman of Special Session Integer Programming and Industrial Applications of International Conference CIE 39 Troyes 2009.
Editor of Special Issues
G. Danoy, D. El Baz, Guest Editors, Special issue on Parallel/ Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, Algorithms, December 2022
G. Danoy, D. El Baz, B. Dorronsoro, Guest editor special issue on Parallel/Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, December 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.swevo.2020.100798
H. Zhang, D. El Baz, V. C. Leung, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE TETC), Volume 8, N° 3, 3 September 2020, Special Section on Green Computing in Internet of Things, 10.1109/TETC.2020.2999237
B. Dorronsoro, G. Danoy, D. El Baz, The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Combinatorial Optimization, Vol. 133, 358 pages, Elsevier, 2019.
L. Bellatreche, C. Leung, Y. Xia, D. El Baz, Special Issue of Advances in Cloud and Big Data Computing of the Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Wiley Intersciences, 25 January 2019. doi 10.1002/cpe.5053
H. Ning, D. El Baz, L. T. Yang and R. Wang, Heterogeneous Sensors Based Object Identification and Information Fusion, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley Intersciences, 25 March 2017.
L. Veiga, D. El Baz, J. M. P. Cardoso editors, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Computational Science and Engineering Research of the Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier, Vol. 23, September 15, 2017.
W. Zhang, Q. Jiny, D. El Baz editors, Enabling Social Internet of Things and Social Cloud, IEEE Cloud Computing, Vol. 3, N° 9, December 2015.
D. El Baz, J.- C. Miellou et O. Pironneau, éditeurs, Numéro thématique : Méthodes itératives de décomposition de domaines et communications en calcul parallèle, Calculateurs Parallèles, Réseaux et Systèmes Répartis, Vol. 10, N˚4, 1998, Hermès.
D. El Baz et B. Plateau éditeurs, Numéro thématique : Multithreads, Calculateurs Parallèles, Réseaux et Systèmes Répartis, Vol. 10, N˚3, 1998, Hermès.
Publications
h index: 26, i10 index: 54, papers quoted 715 times since 2017,source: Google Scholar, g index 42, h index Scopus: 19.
Keynote Speeches
Challenges in Computing Accelerators and the Internet of Things, PDP 2017, St Petersburg Russia, March 6-8, 2017.
High Performance Issues Related to the Internet of Thing and Smart Earth, ParCo 2017, Bologne Italy, September 12-15, 2017.
IoT and the Need for High Performance Computing, International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in The Internet of Things (IIKI2014), Beijing China, 17-18 October 2014,
Research Activities : summary
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing
Parallel algorithms and computing accelerators: GPU and Intel Xeon Phi
Monte-Carlo numerical simulation: International Journal of Parallel Programming 2017, ScalCom 2016, SASV 2015.
Scheduling: Annals of Operations Research 2025, Future Generation Computer Systems 2020, JPDC 2019, Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2019, JPDC 2018, IEEE/ACIS SNPD 2018, IPDPSW PCO 2018, POMCO 2016, IPDPSW PCO 2016.
Planning problems: Journal of Supercomputing 2021.
Knapsack problems: Advances in GPU Research and Practice 2017, IPDPS 2013, Computers & Operations Research 2012, IPDPS 2012, PDP2012, PDP2011.
Neural networks training: IPDPSW PDCO 2017,
Linear programming: HPCC2011, IPDPSW 2011,
Graphs algorithms: The Journal of Supercomputing 2023,
Grid computing, peer-to-peer computing:
Boundary value problems: Concurrency and Computation 2020, PDP 2018, PDP 2014, PDP 2013, IEEE CSE 2012, 11th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, Grand Colloque STIC2012, IPDPSW 2011, IPDPSW 2011, HotP2P 2010, IPDPS 2010, PDP 2010, GENI Engineering Conference Duke Univ. 2010, STIC 2010,
Optimization problems: Cologne Twente Workshop 2012, PDP2010, PDP 2005.
Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing
Knapsack problems and load balancing: PDP 2006, JPDC 2005, PARCO 2001.
Routing: Parallel Computing 1992.
Graph problems: IPDPSW 2016.
Distributed Computing: IPDPSW PCO 2014, MECHATRONICS 2012, iThings 2013, dMEMS 2011, SIAM J. Contr. Optim. 1987.
Performance Prediction: HPCC 2012, HOTP2P 2011.
Asynchronous parallel or distributed iterative algorithms, asynchronous iterations with order intervals: HDR 98, PhD thesis
Design, mathematical models, convergence study
Numerical Simulation: Comput Appl. Math. 2005, Numerical Algorithms 2003, MOC 1998, PARCO 1993, SIAM J. Numeric. Anal. 1990.
Optimization problems: IPDPS2015, JPDC 1996, COAP 1996, SIAM J. Contr. Optim. 1987.
Optimal Control: JSS 2002.
Stopping criteria, distributed convergence detection, termination: JCAM 2008, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 2005, ETNA 2002, International Mathematical Journal 2002, PAA 1996.
Implementation: IBM SP, Cray T3E, SMP, clusters: JPDC 2007: PDP 2007, PDP 2003, Parallel Computing 1993.
Optimization:
Applied Software Computing Journal 2023.
Knapsack family problems:
IJMOR 2012, CIE 2011, EJIE 2010, CIE'39 2009, EJOR 2009, EJIE 2009.
Artificial Intelligence
IPDPSW 2024, Digital Health, Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2023, Frontiers in Public Health 2023, Sustainability 2022, Healthcare 2021, IPDPSW 2022, IM & CTCPA 2018, IM & CTCPA 2017, IPDPSW PDCO 2017, Workshop LAAS March 7, 2017.
Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Systems
Mechatronics 2019, Keynote Speach ParCo 2017, ZTE Communications 2015, IEEE Cloud Computing 2015, IIKI 2014, IPDPSW PCO 2014, Mechatronics 2012, dMEMS 2010, Keynote ParCo 2017,
Cybersecurity:
ICMTMTE 2021, JoWUA 2019, IDAACS 2017,
Geophysics:
Surveys in Geophysics 2023, EGU 2021.
Some Ph.D. students:
K. Asfour, Numerical Simulation, géophysics, HPC, 2021(thesis).
J. Luo, Scheduling, parallel computing, GPU computing, 2019 (thesis), IEEE Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis award 2020 in Scalable Computing.
B. Fakih, Numerical Simulation, Planning, Grid computing, 2018 (thesis).
L. Zhu, Distributed autonomous robots, 2018 (thesis).
B. Plazolles, Monte Carlo simulation, GPU Computing, Intel Xeon Phi, 2017 (thesis).
M. E. Lalami: combinatorial optimisation, 2012, GPU computing (thesis)
T. T. Nguyen: P2P HPC computing, 2011, (thesis)
V. Boyer: integer programming, 2007, (thesis).
M. Jarraya: parallel computing, 2000, (thesis, slides).
D. Gazen: parallel computing, 1998, (thesis).
Teaching activities:
- University of Sciences and Technology, Beijing China, 32 lectures: Introduction to High Performance Computing, 2015-2024 and 16 lectures: Introduction to Distributed Systems, 2017.
- China University of Geosciences Beijing, 16 lectures: Introduction to High Performance Computing, 2017.
- Sichuan University, Chengdu China, 16 lectures: Introduction to High Performance Computing, 2016.
- University of Sciences and Technologies Houari Boumediene, Algiers Algéria, lectures: Introduction to Parallel Computing, 2016.
