Nicolas Kuhn
Head Of Discipline - System Engineering (ECCF) at Thales
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolNicolas Kuhn is a systems engineering leader and researcher with a PhD and HDR in Computer Science, specializing in SATCOM ground segments, satellite constellations, congestion management and spatial telecommunications. With nine years of industry experience and roles from CNES R&D engineer to Head of Discipline at Thales, he blends hands-on SATCOM system architecture for 5G/DVB programs with team leadership and project management. His work spans standardization (IETF delegate, RFC authorship), EU research programs (H2020 PI) and academic publications exploring in-network resilience and transport performance over high-BDP links. Based in Toulouse, he is as comfortable designing satellite cloud RAN and constellation access networks as he is translating cutting-edge research into deployable system requirements. Less obvious: he pairs deep protocol-level insight (QUIC, network coding) with practical ground-segment engineering, enabling resilient internet services over challenging satellite environments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherche (HDR), COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherche (HDR), COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES AND SUPPORT SERVICES at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse IIIDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at ISAE-SUPAERO
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
ietf10
congestion-control9
quic9
transport7
java7
protocols6
internet6
specification6
webtransport5
blockchain4
loss4
tls133
packet2
cryptography2
packet-loss2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
irtf-nwcrg/draft-irtf-nwcrg-network-coding-satellites
Sep 2018 - Oct 2020
Network coding and satellites
Contributions:54 PRs, 79 pushes, 55 branches in 2 years 1 month
satellites
irtf-nwcrg/draft-irtf-nwcrg-coding-and-congestion-in-transport
Dec 2019 - Feb 2022
Coding and congestion control in transport
Contributions:48 reviews, 38 PRs, 133 pushes in 2 years 3 months
transportcongestion-controlcongestion
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