Address: | Schools of Computer Science and Mathematics |
Université de Neuchâtel | |
Rue Emile-Argand 11, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland | |
Office: | UniMail - B121 |
Email: | hm@huguesmercier.com |
Telephone: | +41 32 718 2728 |
Prior to my appointment in Neuchâtel, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University with Professor Fabrice Labeau and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with Professor Vahid Tarokh. I completed my doctoral studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Professor Vijay K. Bhargava. I received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from Université Laval, and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Université de Montréal.
I was born and raised in Québec, Canada. Outside of work, I enjoy running, anything played with a racket, any activity that can be done on snow, playing bridge, and spending time with my daughters.
I was the Scientific and Technical Director of the Horizon 2020 SafeCloud project. The objective of SafeCloud was to re-architect cloud infrastructures to ensure that data transmission, storage, and processing can be (1) partitioned in multiple administrative domains that are unlikely to collude, so that sensitive data can be protected by design; (2) entangled with inter-dependencies that make it impossible for any of the domains to tamper with its integrity. The project ran from 2015 to 2018 and its total budget was €3,298,988.
EBSIS: Event-Based Systems in Iaşi (Horizon 2020 - Twinning Action). The main objective of EBSIS was to strengthen the Big Data research output at the Faculty of Computer Science at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi (UAIC), Romania. The project ran from 2016 to 2018 and its total budget was €867,205.
Distributed Storage Security (UniNE Maths-CS Competence Center research grant). The project ran from 2015 to 2016 and its total budget was CHF125,446.
Most of my publication list is available on my Google Scholar page. Many preprints are available online via open access. Contact me for a copy you cannot find.
R&D Workshop (graduate course, Spring)
Applied coding and information theory (graduate course, Spring)
Probability (graduate course, Fall)
Discrete Mathematics and Applications (undergraduate course, Fall)
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