Dream - SED Sophia Antipolis Méditerrannée

Dream is the local name of CRISAM’s service for supporting experiments & development, aka. SED. Our service is composed of research engineers providing support for development, experiments and the management of experimental platforms. The team keeps up on technological advances. This website is mainly used to provide blog posts about our activity. For institutional information, please visit the appropriate section on the Inria intranet.

The “dream” team

Romain Tetley

Romain Tetley is the manager of the SED team at INRIA and a tenured research engineer at the Université Côte d’Azur center. He holds a PhD in Computer Science, having specialized in mixed sequence-structure analysis of proteins and the development of advanced computational tools for functional annotation. In addition to his academic achievements, Romain has startup experience as CEO/CTO at Inria Startup Studio, where he led the creation of innovative music tech solutions for live performance. With a strong background in UI/UX design, his leadership combines technical expertise, user-centered interface development, and entrepreneurial vision, driving collaborative and user-friendly innovation within Inria.

Thibaud Kloczko

Graduated in CFD, Thibaud Kloczko is software engineer since 2011. He was first involved in the development of the meta platform dtk that aims at speeding up life cycle of business codes into research teams and at sharing software components between teams from different scientific fields (such as medical and biological imaging, numerical simulation, geometry, linear algebra, computational neurology). He also helped set up agility for the development of scientific software at the Sophia Antipolis Inria Center.

Nicolas Niclausse

Nicolas Niclausse received his PhD in 1999 (on web traffic modeling and performance evaluation). During 4 years, he worked as an open source specialist at IDEALX (where he started to write Tsung, a load testing tool). He is now a research engineer at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (since 2004), and he is a member of the Grid’5000 technical comitee. He’s working on HPC related topics (building and setup of HPC clusters, development of dtkDistributed layer, …).

Julien Wintz

Julien Wintz received his PhD in algebraic geometry in 2008, and became a research engineer at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis the same year. He has designed dtk, a meta platform for modular scientific application development, for which he got, in 2011, Inria prize for supporting research and innovation.

Jean-Luc Szpyrka

Jean-Luc Szpyrka has been working at Inria since 1990. He began his career as a real-time software developer in a computer vision team (Robotvis) and held this position for several years. Later, he joined the CS team, where he focused extensively on system administration, primarily Unix/Linux and security management. After 15 years in the “purgatory” of CS 🙂, he returned to development.

Erwan Demairy

Erwan, PhD, is a scientific software engineer part of the SED since some 15 years and member of the AMDT team for 5 years, thus working on multiple software platforms. PSM 1 certified.

Marc Vesin

Marc graduated from ENSIMAG in 1993. Briefly started as a real-time developper at CEA. Worked some 20 years mostly with IT infrastructure – networks, systems, storage, security, clusters – as a tech, project manager and team leader. Gradually shifted focus on providing tailored experimentation solutions and advice to research teams. Since 2019, working as tech lead on Fed-BioMed project with EPIONE team and developing mostly in Python.

Alexis Gobé

Alexis received his PhD in February 2020 in applied maths. He is specialized in numerical computations, parallel computing and he loves working on data vizualization. He is currently working as tech leader of the nanophotonics platform DIOGENeS in close collaboration with the Atlantis project team.

Nicolas Chleq

Nicolas Chleq is a software research engineer with multiple skills, especially for computational vision, robotics, real-time, artificial intelligence.

Côme Le Breton

Côme Le Breton est ingénieur dans le Service Expérimentation et Développement (SED) à Inria. En tant qu’ingénieur SED, son rôle est de concevoir, monter, gérer, exploiter et animer des plateformes destinées à conduire des expérimentations en lien avec des thématiques de recherche. Il travaille ainsi en collaboration étroite avec plusieurs équipes de recherche, assurant une vision transverse pour favoriser les collaborations, mutualisations et la création de liens entre projets. Son travail inclut l'analyse des besoins des chercheurs, la proposition de solutions techniques, le développement et la mise en place des prototypes logiciels ou matériels, la documentation, la formation des utilisateurs et l’animation de la communauté qui utilise ces plateformes.

Hugo Gresse

Hugo Gresse est ingénieur mobile et web pour le projet Pl@ntNet à l'Inria. Il est responsable du développement de l'application mobile de Pl@ntNet. Il est aussi organisateur de Sunny Tech et membre de Montpellier Tech Hub.

Ronan Le Guillou

Ronan Le Guillou received his PhD in 2023 on embedded control systems (ED I2S SYAM) and is since then a research engineer at Inria. As part of the SED (Service Expérimentation et Développement), he works in the Inria CAMIN team on embedded real-time platforms for motion control and analysis in clinical research and experimentations.

Rémi Cérès

Rémi Cérès est ingénieur de recherche au sein du Service Expérimentation et Développement (SED) Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, en détachement dans l’équipe Wimmics. Il contribue au développement du logiciel Corese et de son écosystème (corese-stack), dédié au Web sémantique et aux graphes de connaissances.

Ali Tolga DINCER

Ali Tolga Dincer holds a double-degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He finished his Master's in KU Leuven, where he focused on CyberSecurity and AI. For his thesis, he focused on Neuroscience, where he tried to use LLMs to find a Brain Encoding between Wikipedia sentences and fMRI data of subjects while they are reading those sentences. Currently, he's a Research Software Engineer at SED in Inria - Sophia Center, focused on the FedBioMed project.