Anthony Dugois — PhD Candidate in Computer Science

Hi there—

I am a PhD Candidate at ENS Lyon in the field of Computer Science. I work in the ROMA team at the LIP laboratory under supervision of Loris Marchal (ENS Lyon, CNRS) and Louis-Claude Canon (Univ. Franche-Comté, FEMTO-ST).

My research interests include scheduling algorithms, optimization in parallel computing and distributed storage systems.

Research

In my thesis, I study scheduling problems arising in distributed, replicated and persistent storage systems. The objective is to derive guarantees on response time and load balancing of these systems in an online context, that is to say, without any prior knowledge of the workload.

Publications

Authors appear in lexicographic order.

Conf.
Under reviewCanon, L.-C., Dugois, A., & Marchal, L. (2023). Low-Cost Algorithms for the Restricted Assignment Problem on Intervals of Machines. In ICPP 2023. PDF file.
Journal
Under reviewBen Mokhtar, S., Canon, L.-C., Dugois, A., Marchal, L., & Rivière, E. (2023). A Scheduling Framework for Distributed Key-Value Stores and its Application to Tail Latency Minimization. In Journal of Scheduling.
Conf.
NewCanon, L.-C., Dugois, A., Marchal, L., & Rivière, E. (2023). Hector: A Framework to Design and Evaluate Scheduling Strategies in Persistent Key-Value Stores. In ICPP 2023. PDF file.
Conf.
Canon, L.-C., Dugois, A., & Marchal, L. (2022). Bounding the Flow Time in Online Scheduling with Structured Processing Sets. In IPDPS 2022 (pp. 683-693). PDF file.
Report
Canon, L.-C., Dugois, A., & Marchal, L. (2022). Bounding the Flow Time in Online Scheduling with Structured Processing Sets (extended version). PDF file.
Conf.
Ben Mokhtar, S., Canon, L.-C., Dugois, A., Marchal, L., & Rivière, E. (2021). Taming Tail Latency in Key-Value Stores: a Scheduling Perspective. In Euro-Par 2021 (pp. 136-150). PDF file.
Report
Ben Mokhtar, S., Canon, L.-C., Dugois, A., Marchal, L., & Rivière, E. (2021). Taming Tail Latency in Key-Value Stores: a Scheduling Perspective (extended version). PDF file.

Teaching

In addition to my research activities, I work as a teaching assistant (up to 64 hours per year). Covered topics include parallel algorithms, distributed programs, logic, networks and system programming. Courses are taught in French (fr) or English (en).

Year	Topic	Type	Level	Location
2022-2023	Bases de la Programmation (fr)	TD/TP	L1	UFC
2022-2023	Réseaux (fr)	TP	M1	UFC
2021-2022	Circuits Logiques et Réseaux (fr)	TD/TP	L3	ENSL
2021-2022	Parallel and Distributed Algorithms & Programs (en)	TD/TP	M1	ENSL
2020-2021	Architecture, Système et Réseaux (fr)	TD/TP	L3	ENSL
2020-2021	Integrated Project (en)	TD/TP	M1	ENSL

Software

In an effort to make my experiments fully reproducible, all pieces of software used to generate the results of my publications are available and open.

Hector
A framework built on top of Apache Cassandra to design, implement and evaluate scheduling algorithms in an industry-standard system.
Hector Benchmarking
Experiments performed in the ICPP paper entitled Hector: A Framework to Design and Evaluate Scheduling Strategies in Persistent Key-Value Stores.
Load Experiments
Experiments performed in the IPDPS paper entitled Bounding the Flow Time in Online Scheduling with Structured Processing Sets.
KVS Simulator
Experiments performed in the Euro-Par paper entitled Taming Tail Latency in Key-Value Stores: a Scheduling Perspective.

Interests

In my spare time, I volunteer with the Climate Fresk to help raising public awareness of the mechanisms that are at the root of climate change.

I also enjoy experimenting with various recipes in my kitchen (who doesn't love food?) and relaxing in nature during long running sessions.