Pierre Fraigniaud

CNRS researcher (Directeur de Recherche)

Member of Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF), affiliated to both Université Paris Cité and CNRS

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Pierre Fraigniaud got his Master degree in Applied Mathematics from University Grenoble-Alpes, and his Engineer degree in Computer Science and Applied Maths from ENSIMAG, in 1987. He got his PhD degree in Computer Science from ENS Lyon in 1990, and his Habilitation in 1994. He joined CNRS in 1991.

From 2003 to 2006, he was deputy director of LRI (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique), located at University Paris-Saclay. From Jan 2010 to Dec 2017, he was successively director of LIAFA (Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique), and IRIF (Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale), both located at Université Paris Cité. He was Management Committee Chair of the European COST Action 295 DYNAMO on Algorithmic Aspects of Dynamic Networks. Since 2024, he is co-chair of the national research group Informatique Fondamentale et ses Mathématiques (GdR IFM). He is currently the head of the Distributed Computing group at IRIF.

His main research interest is parallel and distributed computing, and specifically the design and analysis of distributed algorithms and data structures for networks.

He is member of the Editorial Boards of Distributed Computing (DC), and Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS). He was Program Committee vice-Chair of the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, in charge of the Track Algorithms (IPDPS'17). He was Program Committee Chair for the Track C of the 41st Int’l Coll. on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP’14), for the 30th ACM Symp. on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC’11), for the 19th Int’l Symp. on Distributed Computing (DISC’05), and for the 13th ACM Symp. on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA’01). He co-chaired the PC of the 2nd European Conference on Parallelism (EuroPar'96).

In 2012, he received the Silver Medal from CNRS, and, in 2014, the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing.

Nom Fraigniaud
Prénom Pierre
Téléphone 01 57 27 92 60
Bureau 4019
Mail Pierre.Fraigniaud@irif.fr
Page web https://www.irif.fr/~pierref/

Adress and Location

Postal address
IRIF
Université Paris Cité
Case 7014
75205 Paris CEDEX 13

Location
IRIF
Bâtiment Sophie Germain
8 place Aurélie Nemours
75013 Paris