Denis Barthou is director of the Distributed and Parallel Tech. Lab. at Huawei Paris Research Center and full professor in Computer Science, on leave from Bordeaux INP.
He graduated from ENS Lyon and obtained a PhD from the University of Versailles St Quentin in 1998, on dependency analysis in the polyhedral model. He took a position as assistant professor at the same university. In 2009 he was appointed University professor at Bordeaux INP and he joined Inria's Runtime team. In 2017, he created and led Inria's Storm team, and at the same time was in charge of the Computer Science studies at the ENSEIRB-MATMECA engineering school, Bordeaux INP. In 2023, he joined the Huawei Paris research center.
In the last 2 years, he has focused on parallelization applied to AI, and in particular to open-source LLMs, both for training and inference.
Over the years, his research interests have focused on optimization, parallel and distributed methods, compilation and runtime systems for AI and high-performance computing applications.
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