Summary
Sihem Cherrared is a research engineer and PhD candidate specializing in fault management for programmable multitenant networks, with eight years of experience across industry and academic labs including Orange and INRIA. She combines expertise in network management automation, NFV/SDN virtualization, probabilistic graphical models, and root cause analysis to design self-diagnosis and self-modeling approaches for cloud-native network services. At Orange and Alter Way she bridged research and practical R&D—applying machine learning thoughtfully while highlighting its limitations for fault localization in virtual networks. Based in Île-de-France, she also teaches at ISEP, bringing current research into the classroom and mentoring the next generation of network engineers. Notably, her work has produced logical constraint graph models for vIMS use cases, demonstrating a rare blend of theoretical rigor and operational relevance.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université de Rennes I
French, English, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic