Project RAINDROP from UCLouvain and UNamur

RAINDROP aims to address in a unique way the challenge of building, deploying, and operating applications on upcoming cloud infrastructures formed of a continuum of core (data centers) and edge resources. Read more.

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SEC 2026

Yinan presented the paper at SEC 2026

Yinan presented the paper “Occamy: Latency-Aware Scheduling with Controlled Degradation for Mixed-Criticality AI at the Edge” at SEC 2026 on October 13 Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Welcoming new postdoc researchers

Welcome aboard, Dr. Bochra Boughzala and Dr. Xiaokun Xu!

We are delighted to welcome two new postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Bochra Boughzala and Dr. Xiaokun Xu, to the RAINDROP research group at UCLouvain.

Dr. Bochra Boughzala recently earned her Ph.D. from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, where her research focused on accelerating real-time data analytics with in-network computing.

Dr. Xiaokun Xu completed his Ph.D. last year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, specializing in measuring and improving the Quality of Experience in cloud-based game streaming.

Cherif Si Mohamed's research visit

Welcoming IMT Atlantique PhD candidate Cherif Si Mohamed

We are pleased to announce that Cherif Si Mohamed, a PhD candidate from IMT Atlantique, France, is visiting the RAINDROP research group at UCLouvain during October 2026. Welcome, Cherif!

SRDS 2026

Yinan presented the paper at SRDS 2026

Yinan presented the paper “Cerberus: Latency-Aware Scheduling with Graceful Degradation for Constrained Edge Infrastructures” at SRDS 2026 on September 24th in Rome, Italy.

SRDS 2026

Best Paper Award at SRDS 2026

The paper “Cerberus: Latency-Aware Scheduling with Graceful Degradation for Constrained Edge Infrastructures” has received the Best Paper Award at SRDS 2026.