Farah Aït Salaht

Associate Professor
ESILV (École Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci)
DVRC (De Vinci Research Center)

I am Farah Aït Salaht, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci (ESILV) in Courbevoie, France, where I am a member of the De Vinci Research Center (DVRC).

I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2014 from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ). My doctoral work focused on the performance evaluation of complex networks, utilizing stochastic bounds and Markov chains to solve issues related to state space explosion.

Following my PhD, I expanded my expertise through postdoctoral positions at Télécom SudParis and ENSAI, focusing on the trade-off between Quality of Service and energy consumption in Cloud systems. I later joined an Inria Discovery project dedicated to service placement in large-scale fog computing environments.

Since then, my research has focused on the Cloud-to-Edge continuum. My work primarily addresses service placement and resource management in distributed environments, with a specific emphasis on autonomous control and stochastic optimization.

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Research Areas

Fog & Edge Computing

Optimizing service placement and replication strategies to minimize latency and energy consumption in distributed environments.

Autonomous Systems

Integrating AI innovations and heuristics to enable smart decision-making and autonomous control at the network edge.

Performance Evaluation

Using stochastic bounds and modeling to analyze Quality of Service (QoS) and reliability in complex cloud systems.

Selected Publications

2025
ACADS: A Framework for Adaptive Cost-Aware Deployment of Stream Processing System in the Cloud
F. Aït-Salaht, L. Della Maestra, D. Wladdimiro.
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E).
2024
Optimizing Service Replication and Placement for IoT Applications in Fog Computing Systems
F. Aït-Salaht, M. Rebai, N. Izri.
Euro-Par 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
2020
HIGHLY CITED An overview of service placement problem in fog and edge computing
F. Aït Salaht, F. Desprez, A. Lebre.
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 53(3).
Cited by approx. 400 researchers.
2019
Service placement in fog computing using constraint programming
F. Aït Salaht, F. Desprez, A. Lebre, C. Prud'Homme, M. Abderrahim.
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC).
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Open Positions

Important Start: Feb 2026

M2 Internship: Concurrent Autonomic Control for the Computing Continuum

Location: DVRC (Paris La Défense) & Inria/AVALON (ENS Lyon)
Supervisors: Farah Aït-Salaht (DVRC) & Christian Perez (Inria)
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Contact

Location

ESILV / DVRC
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci
92916 Paris La Défense, France

Email

Research collaborations & student inquiries:

farah.ait_salaht@devinci.fr