Pr Alain TCHANA @ krakOS
Alain Tchana is from Nkongsamba (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nkongsamba), a city in Cameroon. He is gratuated from University of Yaoundé I in 2008. Then he received his PhD in computer science in 2011 at Toulouse INP. Since September 2022 he is Professor at Grenoble INP in France. Before Grenoble, Alain Tchana was Assistant Professor at Toulouse INP (2013-2018), Professor at Nice University (2018-2019), and Professor at ENS Lyon (2019-2022). His main research interests are Virtualization and Operating Systems. Simply, Alain Tchana is a Systems guy! He has published more than 60 research papers in major Systems, Middleware, Network, and Security conferences including EuroSys, USENIX ATC, INFOCOM, VEE, Middleware, RAID, and DSN. He has also served as PC member in several conferences including USENIX ATC, EuroSys, NSDI, and DSN. Alain Tchana has co-supervised several PhD students, six of whom are pursuing their career in academia. He has received two major prizes: the 2021 CNRS GDR RSD best junior researcher awards in France, and the 2021 Prix de la Francophonie pour Jeunes chercheurs.
He studied in Cameroon until 2008, where he obtained his master's degree in Networks and Multimedia Applications at the Computer Science Department of the University of Yaoundé I. After his internship at Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT, in France), he started a PhD in the same laboratory under the supervision of Pr Daniel Hagimont. During his thesis, Alain Tchana worked on the design of orchestrators for the cloud. He obtained his PhD in 2011 and joined the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG, in France) under the supervision of Pr Noel De Palma. During his post-doctorate at LIG, Alain Tchana was interested in the optimization of benchmarking systems.
In 2013, Alain Tchana was recruited as Associate Professor at Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse where he joined the SEPIA team of IRIT. In 2015, Alain Tchana started a close collaboration with Cameroonian universities and more particularly with the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique de Yaoundé (ENSPY) in Cameroon. Since then, he has been a guest Professor in the Computer Engineering department of ENSPY where he teaches Cloud, Virtualization and Operating System.
