Summary
Helene Coullon is an associate professor of computer science at IMT Atlantique and an Inria researcher specializing in programming models for distributed infrastructures. With over a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, she focuses on configuration, deployment, reconfiguration, and dynamic adaptation of large, complex distributed software systems. She has held roles from postdoctoral researcher to scientific researcher at Inria and served as an adjunct professor at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, reflecting a strong international collaboration profile. Her work sits at the intersection of practical system engineering and formal research, often addressing how runtime change can be safely and efficiently managed. Based in Nantes, France, she combines engineering roots from an INSA computer science degree with long-term research leadership in the STACK team. An under-the-radar strength is her sustained engagement in translating research into deployable models and tools for real-world distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diplôme d'ingénieur, Computer science, Diplôme d'ingénieur, Computer science at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Centre Val de Loire
French, English