Nico Janssens
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Senior Researcher
Nico is a senior researcher at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, currently working on a new communication and collaboration service. Before joining Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in October 2009, Nico worked for a start-up company developing a laboratory information management system for High Content Screening (used by the pharmaceutical industry to accelerate drug discovery). He holds a M.Sc. in Informatics and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from the University of Leuven, Belgium. Nico's interests include various topics related to the cloudification of telecommunication software, including dynamic right-sizing (elasticity), massive scalability and real-time cloud analytics. In line with these interests, Nico has been using Docker since version 0.7 -- starting on a Raspberry Pi, while gradually adopting Docker containers in various research and incubation projects.
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