Pierre Boulet received a PhD of computer science in 1996 from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. He is currently professor of computer science at the University of Lille, France.
His interests range from parallelism, compilation, embedded system co-design to model driven engineering and synchronous languages. He is currently investigating how to program time and energy aware embedded applications on post-Moore architectures, and help design neuromorphic accelerators. He initiated the research on neuromorphic computing at CRIStAL and IRCICA with colleagues from nanoelectronics (IEMN lab) in 2012.
He was deputy director of LIFL then CRIStAL labs from 2008 to 2017. He was vice-president for digital transformation of the University of Lille between 2018 and 2021 and has been vice-president for digital infrastructures since January 2022. He has been chairing the national professional network of digital vice-presidents of universities, VP-Num, since November 2022. He is a member of the HiPEAC EU support action, and senior member of the SIF, IEEE and ACM professional societies.

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Working together to increase cybersecurity at universities: Good Practices from France

The digital transformation of higher education has revolutionized the way universities operate and engage with their stakeholders. However, it brings new challenges, for example in the area of cybersecurity. The increasing number of Cyberattacks on universities – as does Hans Pongratz, an expert at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund University, at […]

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Raising Cyber Security in Higher Education through Coordinated Efforts: Good Practices from France

The digital transformation of higher education has revolutionised how universities operate and engage with their stakeholders. However, it also brings about new challenges, for instance in the realm of cybersecurity. The increase of the number of cyber attacks on universities – as Hans Pongratz, expert at the Zentrum für HochschulBildung (zhb) of TU Dortmund, pointed out […]

bop-2022-carré-small.jpg Pierre Boulet 15.08.23
Cover image of blog entry "RAISING CYBER SECURITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION." Subtitle: "A blog post by Channa van der Brug and Pierre Boulet. Good Practices from France. Image at right shows a lock on a keyboard. Logo on bottom right: Hochschulforum Digitalisierung.