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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

UCLouvain

Professor

2022 - Present

UCLouvain

Louvain-la-Neuve

Critical embedded systems, Computer networking

Université de Strasbourg

Professor

2015 - 2022

Université de Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Led a team of researchers focusing on core Internet technologies

Internet Initiative Japan

Senior Researcher

2009 - 2015

Internet Initiative Japan

Tokyo

Network operations and Internet infrastructure research

NTT

Researcher

2007 - 2009

NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories

Tokyo

Network systems and protocols research

UCLouvain

Researcher

2003 - 2006

UCLouvain

Louvain

Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS, BGP routing, IETF participation

UCLouvain

PhD Student

2003 - 2006

UCLouvain

Louvain

Thesis: Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS

UNamur

Researcher

2001 - 2003

UNamur

Namur

Interdomain traffic engineering with MPLS, BGP routing, IETF participation

Research Interests

BGP security & routing protocols
Internet measurement infrastructure
Machine learning for network security
Critical embedded systems for IoT
Network anomaly detection
Internet operations & reliability

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

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