Etienne Rivière has been a professor of Computer Science at UCLouvain since September 2017. Before joining UCLouvain, he was a lecturer at Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland since 2011. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from Inria/University of Rennes under the guidance of Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec. He was an ERCIM Alain Bensoussan fellow at NTNU Trondheim and University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) in 2008-2009

Prof. Rivière research interests are in distributed systems, operating systems, and privacy & security. His group (Cloud and Large Scale Computing) is active in various projects including CyberExcellence, and currently investigates topics around the performance, scalability, and security of large-scale decentralized infrastructures (e.g., blockchains and web3), privacy preservation in cloud-based systems, resource management in cloud systems and big data infrastructures, programming and adaptation models for edge/cloud continuum, and secure-by-design programming and operation of pervasive systems.