RABIE BEN ATITALLAH (Associate Professor), HDR

International Expert - University of Galatasaray

 

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Biography

Rabie Ben Atitallah is currently International Expert and Associate Professor working with the University of Galatasaray (Turkey) under the supervision of the french Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he received his PhD degree in Computer Science from University of Lille1 in March 2008. Between September 2009 and 2018, Rabie Ben Atitallah held the position of Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut Cambrésis (UVHC). In addition, he had the status of associated researcher at INRIA Lille Nord Europe within the DaRT and DreamPal team projects between 2008 and 2016. In December 2014, he received the Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the UVHC. Rabie Ben Atitallah has managed several research projects in paticular with industrial patners such as Airbus Group Innovation, Airbus Helicopters, Navya, Nolam Embedded Systems, etc. He co-authored more than 90 publications (patents, journals, and international conferences). Due to his significant scientific contributions, he holds the scientific award of excellence and he is nominated as a member of the National University Committee (CNU) in computer science. His research domain covers embedded system design for intelligent transportation, reconfigurable computing, power modelling and optimisation, and design space exploration.

• Research topics: Embedded system design, Reconfigurable computing, Parallel architecture, Low power, Desing space exploration, Hardware/Software codesign.
• Application domains: Intelligent transportation system, Driver Assistance System (DAS), Smart camera, Autonomous vehicle, Drone, Avionic systems, Urban mobility.

News

• The PhD defense of Yomna Ben Jmaa was held on April the 27th 2019 at 10 AM in the University of Sfax. The slides of her presentation can be found here.

• The PhD defense of Zeineb Baklouti was held on September the 13th 2018 at 10 AM in the University of Valenciennes. The slides of her presentation can be found here.

• The PhD defense of Karim Ali was held on February the 8th 2018 at 10 AM in the University of Valenciennes. The slides of his presentation can be found here.

• The PhD defense of Wissem Chouchene was held on December the 7th 2017 at 2 PM in Polytech Lille. The slides of his presentation can be found here.

Recent Works

• Mokhtar Bouain, Karim Ali, Denis Berdjag, Nizar Fakhfakh, and Rabie Ben Atitallah. An Embedded Multi-Sensor Data Fusion Design for Vehicle Perception Tasks. Journal of Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 8-14, 2018. Doi: 10.12720/jcm.13.1.8-14.

• Mokhtar Bouain, Denis Berdjac, Rabie Ben Atitallah. Exploring High-Level Synthesis Tools For Vehicle Perception Tasks. 9th European Congress on Embedded Real Time Software and Systems, Toulouse, France, January 2018.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah and Karim Ali. FPGA-Centric High Performance Embedded Computing: Challenges and Trends. 2017 Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2017), Vienna, Austria, September 2017.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Nicolas Belanger, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. FPGA-Centric Design Process for Avionic Simulation and Test. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2017.2733858, July 2017.

• Bassem Ouni, Imen Mhedbi, Chiraz Trabelsi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Cécile Belleudy. Multi-level energy/power-aware design methodology for MPSoC. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 100, Pages 203-215, February 2017.

• Feriel Ben abdallah, Chiraz Trabelsi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Mourad Abed. Model-Driven Approach for Early Power-Aware Design Space Exploration of Embedded Systems. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, Volume 87, Issue 3, pp 271–286, 2017.

• Mokhtar Bouain, Denis Berdjac, Nizar Fakhfakh, Rabie Ben Atitallah. An extrinsic sensor calibration framework for sensor-fusion based autonomous vehicle perception. The 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), Madrid, Spain, July 2017.

• Yomna Ben Jmaa, Karim Ali, David Duvivier, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Maher Ben Jemaa. An efficient Hardware implementation of Timsort and Mergesort algorithms using High Level Synthesis. The 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS 2017), Genoa, Italy, July 2017.

• Karim Ali, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Nizar Fakhfakh, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Exploring HLS Optimizations for Efficient Stereo Matching Hardware Implementation. 13th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2017), Delft, The Netherlands,March 2017.

• Manel Kammoun, Ahmed Ben atitallah, Rabie Ben atitallah, Nouri Masmoudi. Design exploration of efficient implementation on SoC heterogeneous platform: HEVC intra prediction application. International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, DOI: 10.1002/cta.2308, December 2016.

• Wissem Chouchène, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. AFFORDe : Automatic Allocation and Floorplanning for SPMD Architecture. 10th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC 2016), Lyon, France, September 2016.

• Abdessamad Ait El Cadi, Omar Souissi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdelhakim Artiba, Nicolas Belanger. Mathematical Programming Models for Scheduling in a CPU/FPGA Architecture with Heterogeneous Communication Delays. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIM), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-015-1075-z, 2015.

• Karim Ali, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Nizar Fakhfakh, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Using hardware parallelism for reducing power consumption in video streaming applications. 10th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC'2015), Bremen, Germany, June 2015.

• Konstanca Nikolajevic, Nicolas Belanger, David Duvivier, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdelhakim Artiba. A Method to Compute Efficient 3d Helicopters Flight Trajectories Based on a Motion Polymorph-Primitives Algorithm. International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, pp. 1931-1939, ISSN PISSN:2010-376X, EISSN:2010-3778, 2015.

• Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Massively Parallel Dynamically Reconfigurable Multi-FPGA Computing System. IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM15), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,May 2015.

• Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. A Parallel And Scalable Multi-FPGA based Architecture for High Performance Applications. 23nd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2015), Monterey, California, February 2015.

• George Afonso, Wenceslas Godard, Rabie Ben Atitallah, and Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Système de simulation et de test. International patent registered at the National Institute of Industrial Properties under the reference nºWO 2015/097105 A1, July, 2015.

• Karim Ali, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Said Hanafi, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. A Generic Pixel Distribution Architecture for Parallel Video Processing. 2014 International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), Cancun, Mexico, December, 2014.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah. Dynamic reconfiguration and low power design : towards self-adaptive massively parallel embedded systems. Habilitation in Computer Science, University of Valenciennes, December, 2014.

• Abdessamad Ait el Cadi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Said Hanafi, Nenad Mladenovic, Abdelhakim Artiba. New MIP model for Multiprocessor Scheduling Problem with Communication Delays. Journal of Optimisation Letters, accepted in September 2014, Springer DOI: 10.1007/s11590-014-0802-2.

• Feriel Ben Abdallah, Chiraz Trabelsi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Mourad Abed. Early Power-aware Design Space Exploration for Embedded Systems: MPEG-2 Case Study. International Symposium on System-on-Chip 2014, Tampere, Finland, October 28-29, 2014.

• Chiraz Trabelsi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Samy Meftali, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Model-Driven design flow for distributed control in reconfigurable FPGA systems. Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP 2014), Madrid, Spain, October 2014.

• Bouain Mokhtar, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Communication-Centric Design for FMC based I/O System. 9th International Symposium on Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC'2014), Montpellier, France, May 2014.

• Santhosh Kumar Rethinagiri, Oscar Palomar, Osman S. Unsal, Adrián Cristal, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Smaïl Niar. PETS: Power and energy estimation tool at system-level. 15th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED 2014), Santa Carla, CA, USA, March 2014.

• Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Redefining the role of FPGAs in the next generation avionic systems. 22nd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2014), Monterey, California, February 2014.

• Santhosh Kumar Rethinagiri, Oscar Palomar, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Smaïl Niar, Osman S. Unsal, Adrián Cristal Kestelman. System-level power estimation tool for embedded processor based platforms. 6th Workshop on Rapid Simulation and Performance Evaluation: Methods and Tools (RAPIDO 2014), Vienna, Austria, January 2014.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah, Eric Senn, Daniel Chillet, Mickael Lanoe and Dominique Blouin. An efficient Framework for Power-Aware Design of Heterogeneous MPSoC. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, © IEEE, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Page(s): 487 – 501, 2013.

• Zeineb Baklouti, David Duvivier, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdelhakim Artiba, Nicolas Belanger. Real-time simulator supporting Heterogeneous CPU/FPGA architecture. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IEEE IESM 2013), I4e2, Rabat, Morocco, October 2013.

• Omar Souissi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, David Duvivier, Abdelhakim Artiba, Nicolas Belanger, Pierre Feyseau. Path Planning: A 2013 Survey. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IEEE IESM 2013), I4e2, Rabat, Morocco, October 2013.

• Abdessamad Ait el Cadi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdelhakim Artiba. Mathematical Programming Models for Scheduling in a CPU/FPGA Architecture with Communication Delay. International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IEEE IESM 2013), I4e2, Rabat, Morocco, October 2013.

• Omar Souissi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, David Duvivier, Abdelhakim Artiba. Optimization of Matching and Scheduling on Heterogeneous CPU/FPGA Architectures. 7th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control (MIM 2013), Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 2013.

• George Afonso, Zeineb Baklouti, David Duvivier, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Eli Billauer. Heterogeneous CPU/FPGA Reconfigurable Computing System for Avionic Test Application. Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2013), Boston, USA, May 2013.

• George Afonso, Nicolas Damiani, Nicolas Belanger, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Martial Rubio. Hybrid and multicore optimized architectures for test and simulation systems. The 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools 2013), Cannes, French Riviera, March 2013.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah, Martial Rubio, Nicolas Belanger, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. A method of dynamically optimizing an architecture of system test tools. Australian Patent Office, Patent nº 2012200402, 2012.

• Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser, Benjamin Nakache, Maurice Nakache. Dynamic Reconfiguration of Modular I/O IP cores for Avionic Applications. International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2012), December 2012, Cancun, Mexico.

• Eric Senn, Cécille Belleudy, Daniel Chillet, Agnès Fritsch, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Olivier Zendra. Open-People: Open Power and Energy Optimization PLatform and Estimator. 15th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design (DSD'2012), September 2012, Cesme, Izmir, Turkey.

• Hajer Chtioui, Smail Niar, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Mohamed Zahran, Jean-Luc Dekeyser, Mohamed Abid. A Dynamic Hybrid Cache Coherency Protocol for Shared-Memory MPSoC Architectures. International Journal of Computer Applications, 47(3):45-50, June 2012. Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

• Omar Souissi, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Abdelhakim Artiba, Salah E. Elmaghraby. Optimization Of Run-time Mapping On Heterogeneous CPU/FPGA Architectures. 9th International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and SIMulation (MOSIM 2012), June 2012, Bordeaux, France.

• Santhosh Kumar Rethinagiri, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Eric Senn, Jean-Luc Dekeyser, Smail Niar. An Efficient Power Estimation Methodology for Complex RISC Processor based Embedded Platforms. 22nd Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI 2012), May 2012, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

• George Afonso, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Software Implementation vs. Hardware Implementation: The Avionic Test System Case-Study, (The poster presentation). Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2012), March, London, United Kingdom.

• Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Un modèle de fonctionnement SPMD à base d’IPS. Ecole d'hiver Francophone sur les Technologies de Conception des Systèmes embarqués Hétérogènes (FETCH 2012), Janvier 2012, Alpe D'Huez, France.

• Adolf Abdallah, Abdoulaye Gamatié, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Abstract Clock-based Design of a JPEG Encoder. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, Volume: PP, Issue: 99, DOI: 10.1109/LES.2012.2189195, 2012.

• Santhosh Kumar Rethinagiri, Rabie Ben Atitallah, Smail Niar, Eric Senn, Jean-Luc Dekeyser. Hybrid System Level Power Consumption Estimation for FPGA-Based MPSoC. 29th IEEEInternational Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), October 2011, Amherst, MA, USA. (Best Paper Award)