Robert Basmadjian
Associate Professor at UM6P and Head of Toubkal Supercomputer
I am an Associate Professor at the College of Computing of the Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P) as well as heading the Toubkal Supercomputer which is Africa's most powerful high-performance computing data center.
I was previously Professor and headed the Chairs of Computer Architecture and Energy Informatics at the Institute of Informatics of the Claustal University of Technology as well as the Chairs of Sensor Technology and Secured Information Systems at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of Passau. I was habilitand and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics of the University of Passau. I hold a PhD in distributed systems from the University of Toulouse.
I specialize in exploring the fundamentals of large-scale Distributed Systems, with a particular focus on energy management. My research delves into various applications such as data centers, smart homes, and electric mobility. I am deeply passionate about tackling interdisciplinary and intricate systems using established methodologies like Markov Chains, Queuing Theory, and Peer-to-Peer machine-learning.
College of Computing
LOT 660, Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Ben Guerir, 43150
News
- My book on energy management in data centers will be published soon by Springer 2025.
- My reasearch team is building the first Mobile Lab of its type for the purpose of training ML on IoT and mobile phones 2025.
- I acquired the SMART BIN project which has the objective of applying ML for recycling papers 2025.
- I acquired the PePTM project which has the objective of applying the peer-to-peer ML scheme on thermal modeling 2025.
- I was member of TPC for the upcoming Buildsys conferences 2024.
- I served as a chair for the Special Session on "Quantum from Circuits and Algorithms to Systems and Applications" at GLSVLSI 2023 and for the Session on Forecasting at ACM e-Energy 2023.
- The team that I was mentoring won the third place at the NYUAD Hackathon in Quantum Computing 2023.
R&D Projects
- 2025 - 2027: Morocco SMART BIN, PI of the project.
- 2024 - 2025: Morocco PePTM, PI of the project.
- 2022 - 2024: USA DARPA Quantifying Utility of Quantum Computers, scientific contributor in designing quantum decoder circuits using queuing models.
- 2018 - 2019: H2020 ELECTRIFIC, Technical manager of the project to bridge the gap between theoretical and practical implementation of the trials.
- 2016 - 2018: H2020 ELECTRIFIC, contributed to the proposal writing, scientific contributor to smart charging processes, dissemination WP leader.
- 2012 - 2013: EU FP7-ICT-Call 7 ALL4Green, contributed to the proposal writing, leader of the Energy Provider and Data Centre Sub-ecosystem WP.
- 2010 - 2012: EU FP7-ICT-2009-4 FIT4Green, contributed to the proposal writing, leader of the Energy Consumption Models WP.
- 2009 - 2010: EU FP7 AutoI, contributed as a scientific assistant.
- 2005 - 2007: French national project ViSaGe, contributed as a scientific assistant.
TPC and Journal Referee
- ACM e-Energy (since 2018).
- ACM BuildSys (since 2023).
- IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (2022 and 2023).
- International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Data Centres (Eˆ2DC since 2013).
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2019 and 2020).
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2018).
- Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems –MMB (2018).
- Journal of Distributed and Parallel Computing (2017).
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2016 and 2017).
- 15th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2013).
- Special Issue of Computer Networks (COMNET 2013).
- Journal of Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT 2013).
- Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD 2012).