INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE RENNES

He is an associate professor at the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA) of Rennes. He holds a joint appointement at the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR). He obtained his PhD in Signal and Image Processing from the INSA Rennes in 2014. This work was co-supervised by the Pr. Jean-François Nezan and Dr. Maxime Pelcat from the IETR, and by Dr. Slaheddine Aridhi from Texas Instruments, France. His research interests focus on dataflow models of computation and associated implementation techniques for the rapid prototyping of applications running on heterogeneous MPSoCs. In particular, his Ph.D. thesis focuses on the memory characterization and optimization of dataflow applications on MPSoCs. Since 2011, he contributes to the development of the PREESM open-source rapid prototyping. Karol Desnos co-authored more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He has served as a member of the technical program committee of 3 international conferences (SiPS, DASIP, ASR-MOV). He has been actively involved in several projects including H2020 Project (CERBERO), French ANR Projects (COMPA, ARTEFACT), U.S. NSF Project (COMPACTS-SL-MODELS), and a young researcher project funded by the French research society "GdR ISIS" (MORDRED) which he leads. He took part in the creation of the MTAPI standard with the Multicore Association. In Fall 2012, Karol Desnos was a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland in the DSPCAD research group led by Pr. Shuvra Bhattacharyya. Since 2015, he has given invited lectures at INSA Euromediterranee (Fès, Morocco), at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), and at University of Rennes 1.

He is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Rennes Scientific and Technical University. Pr. Jean- Francois Nezan holds a joint appointment in the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR). He is coauthor or coeditor of more than 70 technical articles including 1 Book, 1 Book chapter, 16 publications in International Journals and 2 patents. He supervised 11 defended PhDs and currently supervises 3 PhDs. Jean-François Nezan is involved in the french research society “GDR I I ” in the theme entitled “adequation algorithm architecture” and the European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC). He participated to the setting-up and the management of 5 founded national projects including the COMPA project he led, 1 European project and 10 research agreements with industrial partners. His research topic is the rapid prototyping of standard video compression on embedded architectures. Since 2007, he is involved in the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/ WG11 standardization activities (better known as MPEG). His research interests include signal processing systems (video, vision and telecommunication algorithms), architectures, and software; embedded software; and hardware/software co-design.

He has received the Engineering degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Rennes (INSA) in 2017. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR) laboratory.

He is a Research Engineer working full time on the Cerbero project within the VAADER team at IETR - INSA Rennes. His main activities consists in maintaining the PREESM tool and integrating the tool in the project toolchain. His interests revolve around program transformation and design productivity, ranging from hardware design to software optimisations, including code quality aspects.
He received his M.Sc. degree in computer science from University of Rennes 1 in 2009. He then worked on his Ph.D. thesis about Polyhedral Compilation for High-Level Synthesis in the CAIRN team at IRISA, Rennes, France. He received the degree from Ecole Normale Suprieure of Cachan - antenne de Bretagne in 2013.