Professors

Benoît Garbinato is full professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne, where he leads the Distributed Object Programming Lab (DOPLab). In the 1990s, he contributed to research in the field of distributed object systems, with the aim of making these systems reliable and scalable. He then worked in the industry, first for the UBS research laboratory in Zurich (Ubilab), where he led the software engineering group, and later for Sun Microsystems as a senior software architect. Since his return to the academic world in 2004, his research has focused on emerging distributed architectures, such as scalable peer-to-peer streaming services and location-based mobile systems. He contributed to over 100 publications in international conferences and journals, and is member of the ACM and the IEEE societies.

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• distributed computing systems
• mobile applications & services
• peer-to-peer systems

• human-computer interaction
• Interaction Design
• Behaviour-Change Apps
• Usable Security and Privacy

Thibault Estier joined the University of Lausanne in 1999. He received his PhD in Information Systems from the University of Geneva in 1995, then joined an internet startup (inextenso.com) which produced in 1997 the first Web CMS (Content Management System) on the market in Switzerland. He has been teaching database design, system integration, conceptual modeling, programming, and open source technologies for 20 years. His topic of research concerns evolutive information systems and evolutive knowledge bases.

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• evolutive information systems
• evolutive knowledge bases

Solange Ghernaouti is professor of the University of Lausanne, where she founded the Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group. She helds a Phd in Computer Science and Telecommunication (Paris VI University), she is an internationally recognized expert on ICT Risk management, cybersecurity, cyberdefence and cybercrime related issues. She has contributed to several initiatives organised by international and European organisations, public and private institutions, research centres, and law enforcement agencies, among other instances of professional recognition all around the globe.  She is an active independent security advisor, an influential analyst and a regular media commentator.

Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy, former auditor of the French Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence, member of the scientific committee of the International Forum of Security Technologies, member of the Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, Solange Ghernaouti is Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and has been recognised by the Swiss press as one of the outstanding women in professional and academic circles. 

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• cybersecurity
• cyberdefense
• cybercrime
• risks governance

Kévin huguenin earned his PhD degree from the Université of Rennes I and Inria in 2010 and a master’s degree in computer science from the Université de Nice — Sophia Antipolis in 2007. He is an assistant professor at UNIL-HEC Lausanne, where he leads the Information Security and Privacy Lab, within the Department of Information Systems. Before he joined UNIL in 2016, he held a tenured researcher position (Chargé de Recherche) at LAAS-CNRS, which he joined in 2015, in the Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance group (TSF). Prior to that, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, in the Laboratory for Communications and Applications (LCA1) from 2011 to 2014, and at McGill University, in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL) in 2011. During his time at EPFL, he worked for some time at the Nokia Research Center.

He published 10+ articles in international journals and 25+ articles in international conferences and I filed 2 patents with Nokia; he received the Best Student Paper Award at OPODIS’09, the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICDCS’10 and a scientific excellence award from CNRS. His global research interest is in security and privacy in distributed systems and mobile (social) networks, with a special emphasis on the human and social aspects of security and privacy. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research projects on privacy, at the frontier between computer science and social sciences (incl. law, economics and sociology) and/or medicine (mHealth, genomics, medical databases).

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• information Security and Privacy

• cybersecurity
• privacy
• machine learning

Christine Legner is a Full Professor of Information Systems at the Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC), University of Lausanne. Previously, she has served as Chair of Enterprise Systems and Electronic Business at European Business School (Wiesbaden, Germany) and was visiting researcher at INSEAD (France). Dr. Legner received a post-doctoral qualification (Habilitation) and doctorate from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), an M.S. in Economics from Université Paris–Dauphine (France), and a Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe (Germany).

Her research interests relate to business information systems, with a particular focus on the role of innovative information technologies as enablers for organizational change, both within enterprises and across their entire value network. She has practical and academic experience in designing information systems for global organizations and value chains. She has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals and conference proceedings on business networking, B2B integration, enterprise architecture management and service-oriented architectures. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of the AIS, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, the International Journal of Technology Management, and Electronic Markets, among others.

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• corporate Data Management
• next Generation Enterprise Systems
• enterprise Architecture Management / Business Engineering
• multinational Corporations (MNCs)
• business Networking
   

Stéphanie Missonier received her PhD in Management of Information Systems from the University of Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France in 2008. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary perspective for designing innovative artefacts that aim at supporting team collaboration in different projects – including IT projects – through increasing the quality of their conversation. She will be a visiting scholar at Stanford, invited through the SCANCOR network. She is a member of AIM, Swiss Chapter of the AIS and has published in international outlets such as the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Organizational Studies and International Journal of Project Management (IJPM).

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• cross-boundary collaboration
• project management

Yash Raj Shrestha is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of Lausanne. He obtained his Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zurich) degree from ETH Zurich and master’s degree in Computer Science from Saarland University (Germany). Before joining HEC Lausanne, he was Senior Researcher (Oberassistent) at ETH Zurich. His research aims to identify solutions and frameworks for dealing with organizational and technical hurdles that business organizations face when adopting AI-based systems.

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• Artificial Intelligence in Management
• Data-driven decision-making
• Organization design
• New forms of organizing

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• complexity in functional networks
• neural information processing

• data mining
• big data
• recommender systems
• machine learning