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, He is currently undertaking an industrial PhD under joint supervision of Mark Townsley (Cisco Systems) and Thomas Clausen (École Polytechnique). His research interests include high-performance networking, Yoann Desmouceaux received the Diplôme d'Ingé-nieur fromÉcole Polytechnique, 2015.