I’m a multi-facetted technologist who likes to understand, model, improve and, when the opportunity is given, design systems. For this I have my main skills in Computer Science but I’m also versed in Physics and Electrical Engineering. In my career I’ve been working on Embedded Systems, Web proxies, Smart Grid (Master thesis), Backbone communication networks (PhD thesis), Integrated optics and super-computer networks (PostDoc), and low/no-code development frameworks (Olympe.io).Even if my education is from EPFL (Msc and PhD), and so my home is Western Switzerland, I had the luck to live in Zurich (2002-2004), Santiago de Chile (2004-2005) and New York (2012-2015). I’m currently Associate Professor in the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Fribourg Engineering School branch (HEIA-FR), and I’m member of the iCoSys Institute. I’m teaching mostly in the areas of Software Engineering, Computer Engineering and IT infrastructure monitoring and benchmarking. Within Software Engineering, I’m teaching clean, maintainable and robust code principles, DevOps and software optimization. I’m the author of more than 80 scientific publications and I gathered more than 2000 citations (h-index: 22).
My current research interests are cloud computing deployments (Kubernetes, Hypervisors, …) monitoring and optimisation; green computing and sustainable computing ; digital twins for smart buildings.
Education
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PhD in Computer Science2006 / 2011EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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MSc in Communication Systems1999 / 2005EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Experience
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Associate Professor of Software Engineering2021 / nowHES-SO//Fribourg
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Senior Software Engineer2018 / 2021Olympe.io
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Research Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer2014 / 2018Lightwave Research Laboratory, Columbia University, New York
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Postdoc2012 / 2014Lightwave Research Laboratory, Colmubia University, New York
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Researcher and Ph.D. student2005 / 2011EPFL, Lausanne
Academic functions
- Co-organizer – HiPEAC Computer Science Week special Session 2022 Collaborative Machine Learning across IoT, Edge, Fog and Cloud Devices for Improved Privacy and Resilience
- Program chair – AISTECS 2018 International Workshop on Advanced Interconnect Solutions and Technologies for Emerging Computing Systems 2018
- Program chair – SPHPC 2018 North American Workshop on Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing
Awards
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Hans Meuer award (ISC-HPC conference best paper award) 2018Research paper : Compiler-assisted Source-to-Source Skeletonization of Application Models for System Simulation by Jeremiah J. Wilke, Joseph P. Kenny, Samuel Knight, and Sebastien Rumley.
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Exacomm workshop best paper award 2017Research paper : Design Space Exploration of the Dragonfly Topology by Min Yee Teh, Jeremiah J. Wilke, Keren Bergman and Sébastien Rumley.
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Best Student Paper award at SuperComputing conference 2016Research paper : Flexfly: Enabling a Reconfigurable Dragonfly Through Silicon Photonics by Ke Wen, Payman Samadi, Sébastien Rumley, Christine P. Chen, Yiwen Shen, Meisam Bahadori, Keren Bergman, Jeremiah Wilke.
Academic Genealogy
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Sébastien Rumley
- Christian Gaumier (aka Cristian Bungarzeanu)
- Pierre-Gérard Fontolliet
- Juan Mosig
- Freddy Gardiol
- André S. Vander Vorst
- Henri-Paul Debruyn
- Vitold Belevitch
- Charles Manneback
- Vannebar Bush
- Arthur Edwin Kennelly
- Dugald Caleb Jackson
- Vannebar Bush
- Wilhelm Cauer
- Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel
- David Hilbert
- Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel
- Charles Manneback
- André S. Vander Vorst
- Freddy Gardiol
- Christian Gaumier (aka Cristian Bungarzeanu)
Erdos Number
My Erdos number is 4 :
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Sébastien Rumley
Main publications
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Sébastien Rumley, Keren Bergman, M Ashkan Seyedi, Marco Fiorentino, “Evolving requirements and trends of HPC”
Springer Handbook of Optical Networks, 2020
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K. Wen, P. Samadi, S. Rumley, C. P. Chen, Y. Shen, M. Bahadori, J. Wilke, K. Bergman, “Flexfly: Enabling a Reconfigurable Dragonfly Through Silicon Photonics”
SuperComputing 2016
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Qixiang Cheng, Meisam Bahadori, Madeleine Glick, Sébastien Rumley, Keren Bergman, “Recent advances in optical technologies for data centers: a review”
Optica 2018
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Qixiang Cheng, Sébastien Rumley, Meisam Bahadori, Keren Bergman, “Photonic switching in high performance datacenters”
Optics Express 2018
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K. Wen, S. Rumley, P. Samadi, C. P. Chen, K. Bergman, “Silicon Photonics in Post Moore’s Law Era: Technological and Architectural Implications”
Post-Moore’s Era Supercomputing (PMES) Workshop 2016 @ SC16
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M. Bahadori, M. Nikdast, S. Rumley, L. Y. Dai, N. Janosik, T. Van Vaerenbergh, A. Gazman, Q. Cheng, R. Polster, K. Bergman, “Design space exploration of microring resonators in silicon photonic interconnects: impact of the ring curvature”
IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016
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M. Bahadori, S. Rumley, D. Nikolova, K. Bergman, “Comprehensive Design Space Exploration of Silicon Photonic Interconnects”
IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2015
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S. Rumley, D. Nikolova, R. Hendry, Q. Li, D. M. Calhoun, K. Bergman, “Silicon Photonics for Exascale Systems”
IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2014