Cristel Pelsser

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.