Cristel Pelsser
Professor, Researcher, Critical embedded systems, Computer networking
UCLouvain - EPL / ICTEAM / INGI
The focus of my research is on network operations, routing, Internet measurements, protocols and security.
Biography
Cristel Pelsser holds a chair in critical embedded systems at UCLouvain. From 2015 to 2022 she was a full professor at the University of Strasbourg (France) where she led a team of researchers focusing on core Internet technologies.
She spent nine years as a researcher working for ISPs in Japan. Her aim is to facilitate network operations, to avoid network disruptions and, when they occur, pinpoint the failures precisely in order to quickly fix the issues, understand them in order to design solutions to prevent recurrence.
Her research spans multiple areas including BGP security and routing protocols, Internet measurement infrastructure, machine learning for network anomaly detection, and critical embedded systems for IoT applications. She actively contributes to developing next-generation tools for Internet monitoring, including advanced BGP data collection platforms and systems for detecting routing attacks.
Cristel received the PhD degree from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium.
Recent Achievements
Best Paper Award - ACM SIGCOMM 2024
For "The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms", introducing GILL, a revolutionary approach to Internet routing data collection.
Conference Leadership
Steering committee member of TMA, PAM, and IMC. General co-chair of IMC 2022 and co-chair of multiple prestigious networking conferences.
Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
Awarded twice by the IRTF: in 2019 for work on BGP community attacks and in 2013 for the framework on seamless BGP reconfigurations.
Patent Portfolio
Holds 3 Japanese patents on BGP route reflection topologies and scalable routing information management, developed during industry research.
Experience
Professor
2022 - PresentUCLouvain
Louvain-la-Neuve
Critical embedded systems, Computer networking
Professor
2015 - 2022Université de Strasbourg
Strasbourg
Led a team of researchers focusing on core Internet technologies
Senior Researcher
2009 - 2015Internet Initiative Japan
Tokyo
Network operations and Internet infrastructure research
Researcher
2007 - 2009NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories
Tokyo
Network systems and protocols research
Researcher
2003 - 2006UCLouvain
Louvain
Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS, BGP routing, IETF participation
Researcher
2001 - 2003UNamur
Namur
Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS, BGP routing, IETF participation
Research Interests
Education
PhD in Computer Science
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
2006
MSc in Computer Science
UNamur (Namur, Belgium)
2001
Contact
UCLouvain
EPL / ICTEAM / INGI
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium