Anne Benoit, PhD Student
25 years old
French nationality
E-mail: Anne.Benoit@imag.fr
Home page: http://annebenoit.free.fr
Address:
8 Grand'Rue
38610 Gieres
France
Phone: +33 (0)4 76 89 42 69

Position sought:   Post-Doc in Computer Science (Performance Evaluation)

  Experience
  Oct 2000 -
    Present
PhD Student, ID-IMAG, Montbonnot, France.
"Methods and Algorithms for the performance analysis of large systems". Development of the software PEPS.
Task coordinator in the DECORE project : "Exploiting the symmetries in communication network models".
Student advisor for a project on aggregation of symmetrical Stochastic Automata Networks.
Student advisor on system verification with Lotos and performance evaluation with Stochastic Automata Networks.
Giving computer science lectures at ESISAR (INPG, Valence, France) and at ENSIMAG (INPG, Grenoble, France): algorithmics, compilation, performance evaluation.
Designing the intranet for ID-IMAG.
Performance evaluation, Markov Chains, Stochastic Automata Networks, tensor algebra.
  Oct 1999 -
    Sept 2000
DEA project, ID-IMAG, France.
Study of interactions between the Athapascan-0 tracing tool and the traced applications.
Performance evaluation, parallelism, Athapascan.
  Summer 1999 Training period (8 weeks), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, USA.
Data analysis in Astrophysics with the MADCAP software (Microwave Anisotropy Dataset Computational Analysis Package).
Parallelism (MPI), Linux, IDL, use of super-computers.
  Summer 1998 Training period (6 weeks), IRAM (Institute for Research in Millimeter Astronomy), France.
The design and the implementation of a graphic interface using the Xforms libraries as alternative to Motif for a software for data handling. Working on Linux and Unix.
  Summer 1995 Training period (1 month), CNRS, Grenoble, France.
Study of turbulence with Helium gaz : confection of temperature captors.
  Education
  2000 -
    2003
"Thèse en informatique", equivalent to a Ph.D in Computer Science, ID-IMAG, Montbonnot, France.
  1997 -
    2000
"Diplôme d'Ingénieur en Informatique", equivalent to a Master's Degree in Computer Science, Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), Grenoble, France. Emphasis in Systems and Networks; passed with "Very Good".
"Diplôme d'Études approfondies" (DEA) of Computer science : Systems and Communication (prerequisite for the PhD); passed with "Very Good".
  1995 -
    1997
Intensive undergraduate studies in advanced scientific technologies, mathematics and physics for the competitive entrance exams to the french engineering schools, at lycée Champollion, Grenoble, France.
  1995 Scientific "Baccalauréat" (French secondary school diploma, equivalent to the "A" levels) ; passed with "Very Good".
  Languages French: Native language. English: Good working knowledge, one year living in North America. German: Working knowledge, numerous stays in Germany.
  Computer Skills
  Theory Markov chains, stochastic automata networks, generalized stochastic petri nets, generalized tensor algebra, product state space.
  Systems Unix, Linux, Mac OS, Windows (95, NT).
  Languages C/C++, Ada95, Java, Scheme (LISP dialect), Caml, Assembler, Perl, SQL, HTML, Lotos, UML, IDL (Interface Dataset Language).
  Parallel Programming MPI, ScaLAPACK, Java RMI.
  Software Compilers, MS Office, LaTeX, Version Control Tools, Lex, Yacc, Maple, Computer Aided Design,...
  Networking TCP/IP, Ethernet, client/server architecture.
  Publications
  A. Benoit, B. Plateau and W.J.Stewart. Memory-efficient Kronecker algorithms with applications to the modelling of parallel systems. To appear in PMEO-PDS'03.
  A. Benoit, P. Fernandes, B. Plateau and W.J.Stewart. On the Benefits of Using Functional Transitions in Kronecker Modelling. Submitted to Performance Evaluation, 2002.
  A. Benoit, B. Plateau and W.J.Stewart. Memory Efficient Iterative Methods for Stochastic Automata Networks. Technical report, Rapport de recherche INRIA n. 4259, France, Sept. 2001.
  Further informations
   Driver's license. Music : Certificate of Piano and French horn. First horn of the Symphonic Orchestra of Grenoble, and in a lot of wind ensembles. Chamber music (brass quintett M.A.G.Y.C.). Sport : hiking, climbing, skiing, basketball, ...
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