Dr. Serge Chaumette is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a researcher at LaBRI (Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5800). He owns a PhD in Computer Science and an Engineering Degree in Networks and Systems. He is in charge of the UAVs activities at LaBRI and a member of the steering committee of the UAV Cluster of Région Nouvelle Aquitaine. He is in charge of several research projects funded/run with private companies such as Thales, Gemalto, NXP, etc. and government bodies such as the DGA (French Army), or ORNL and ARL (US Army). His domain of research is on secured fleets/swarms of communicating mobile terminals (phones, robots UAVs, etc.), where degraded mode of operation is considered as the standard use case, i.e. where there can be no assumption on the availability of communication links or computing nodes that constitute the network. He works on theoretical aspects and also designs and runs real world applications.
He is the co-author of the book «UAV Networks and Communications» published in the United States by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-founder of the NFC-Interactive start-up that works on industrial maintenance using sensors and proximity communication technologies.