Short Bio
Rachid El-Azouzi is professor at the University of Avignon in France, specializing in computer science and applied mathematics. With a Ph.D. in Applied and Computational Mathematics from the University of Mohamed V in Rabat, Morocco, obtained in 2000, his work focuses primarily on optimal control, game theory, and the economic aspects of computer and information networks. After completing his doctoral studies, El-Azouzi joined INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation) as a postdoctoral fellow and later as an expert engineer. In September 2003, he began his academic career at the University of Avignon, where he was promoted to full professor in 2013. He also had the opportunity to serve as a visiting scholar at prestigious institutions, including the University of California at Berkeley (2012-2013) and Carnegie Mellon University (2023-2024). His research interests span a wide range of topics, such as networking games, biologically inspired networks, wireless communication, and complex systems. In recent years, his focus has shifted towards the algorithmic and theoretical foundations of distributed systems, with an emphasis on federated learning, blockchain, and machine learning. El-Azouzi's contributions to the field have earned him several accolades, including Best Paper Awards at Networking 2006, Globecom 2017, MSN 2007, Netgcoop 2016, and Unet 2017. He has also played a significant role in academic publishing, serving as an associate editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 2016 to 2020, associate editor for IEEE TNSE from 2022 to 2023, and since 2024, area editor for IEEE TNSE. From 2016 to 2023, he was co-director of the Agorantic federation, a collaboration that unites 8 laboratories in France, fostering research and innovation in the field.
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06/25: Congratulations to Weizhao Tang, Cheng Han Lee, Ethan Chan and Giulia Fanti for being finalists for the Best Paper Award at SIGMETRICS 2025 for our work on analyzing game theoretic strategies for liquidity allocation in automated market makers!
03/25 Distinguished member of the INFOCOM TPC 2025
07/24: Thanks to the ANR for funding our project on “Towards Energy Efficient Didtributed Learning for 6G – TREES” This is a joint project with Orange Innovation, CNAM, University Paris-Dauphine and Canergie Mellon university TREES.
11/24 Congratulations to Haoran Zhang, Zekai Li, Zejun Gong, Marie Siew, and Carlee Joe-Wong for winning the Best Poster Award at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS24) in 2024.
11/23 Prof. Rachid Elazouzi was invited to serve as Area 4 (Emerging Networks) editor for IEEE TNSE.
12/2023 Best Associate Editor Award for IEEE TNSE journal.
08/23-08/24 Prof. Rachid Elazouzi will visit Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting researcher for one year.
11/16 Congratulations to Francesco De Pellegrini, Antonio Massaro, Leonardo Goratti for winning the Best Paper Award at Netgcopp16 for our work on bounded generalized Kelly mechanism for multi-tenant caching in mobile edge clouds.
05/15 Congratulations to Hajar Elhammouti and Loubna Echabbi for winning the Best Student Paper Award at Unet 2015 for our work for proposing A Fully Distributed Learning Algorithm for Power Allocation in Heterogeneous Networks.
12/07 Congratulations to Ralph El Khoury for winning the Best Paper Award at MSN2007 conference for our work on Modeling the Effect of Forwarding in a Multi-hop Ad Hoc Networks with Weighted Fair Queueing.
11/07 Congratulations to Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avratchenkov, Nicolas Bonneau, Mérouane Debbah and Daniel Sadoc Menasché for winning the Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM-2007 on Constrained stochastic games in wireless networks.
05/06 Congratulations Azad Kherani and Eitan Altman for winning the Best Paper Award at Networking conference for our work on Stability-Throughput Tradeo® and Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.