Habilitation (HDR)

I defended my HDR (habilitation à diriger les recherches) on January 30, 2020. You can find here the manuscript and the slides of the defense.

Selected recent publications

Mean Field and Refined Mean Field Approximations for Heterogeneous Systems: It Works!, Sebastian Alleier, Nicolas Gast. Accepted at Sigmetrics 2022.
On fair selection in the presence of implicit and differential variance Vitalii Emelianov, Nicolas Gast, Krishna Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau Artificial Intelligence, 2021. Conference version, EC 2020.
Performance analysis methods for list-based caches with non-uniform access, Giuliano Casale, Nicolas Gast. ACM ToN 2020.
Refinements of Mean Field Approximation. HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherche). Author: Nicolas Gast. 2020.
The Price of Local Fairness in Multistage Selection Authors: Vitalii Emelianov, George Arvanitakis, Nicolas Gast, Krishna Gummadi, Patrick Loiseau. IJCAI 2019
A Refined Mean Field Approximation with Benny Van Houdt, SIGMETRICS 2018 Best paper award
Expected Values Estimated via Mean-Field Approximation are 1/N-Accurate. Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2017
Incentives and Redistribution in Homogeneous Bike-Sharing Systems with Stations of Finite Capacity, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 2014.
Performance issues with MP-TCP (CoNext 2012 Best paper award)