Issam Raïs

- Associate Professor - UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

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My CV

About

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department, at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway (UiT), in Tromsø, Norway, where I lead the Cyber Physical System (CPS) group. My focuses include energy efficiency, systems, distributed systems, high performance computing, cloud, IoT and edge computing.

Here, you can find information about previous works. Feel free to check them by clicking on the following sections or clicking on the bottom icons to reach my profile pages, on various platforms. If you have any questions, comments, or would like to work with us, don't hesitate to contact me.

Spotlights

Best Paper Award
33rd Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS2025)
November 2025
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Message from the General Chairs: CCGrid 2025
Issam Raïs, Laurent Lefèvre, Ivona Brandic
May 2025
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Distinguished Paper Awards
The 19th IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2023)
December 2023
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Datacentre energy efficiency: Is the time now for a big switch-off?
Fleur Doidge
January 2021
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HPC Wire - Whats New In Hpc Research
Oliver Peckham
December 2018
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Supervision


Main Advisor

PhD Student

Energy leveraging for edge and IoT systems
Salma Tofaily
Since January 2022, PhD Student, The Arctic University of Norway
Study of the energy consumption and duration of a Cyber-Physical System reconfiguration in the Arctic Tundra: from experiments on real infrastructure to extensive simulations
Antoine Omond
December 2021 to May 2025, The Arctic University of Norway / IMT Atlantique (double degree)
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Post-Doctoral Researcher

Simulation framework for large scale CPS, IoT and edge systems
Loic Guegan
May 2020 to December 2023, Postdoc, The Arctic University of Norway
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Master Students

Simulating the Arctic Tundra Battery performance at sub-zero temperatures
Erik Amadeus Heggeli
June 2022 to June 2023, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Fine-grained characterization of edge workloads
Magnus Kanck
January 2023 to June 2023, 30 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Exploring the Challenges of a Flexible, Feature Rich IoT Testbed
Alexander Jakobsen Hansen
May 2022 to August 2023, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Characteristics and architecture of a IoT scientific distributed test-bed
Maxime Bruno
May 2022 to July 2022, M1 project, The Arctic University of Norway
A modular approach to units composing scientific observatories
Hirotaka Sato
May 2021 to August 2020, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway

Capstone Projects

Ensuring uninterrupted cold chain from Norway to China
Erling Arvola Devold
July 2022 to December 2022, 20 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Leader election for observation units deployed on the Arctic Tundra
Thomas Lund Fagermyr
December 2020 to September 2020, 20 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway

Co-Advisor

PhD Student

Cyber-physical analytics system spanning from the edge to the cloud
Steffen Randrup
Since January 2020, DAO project, The Arctic University of Norway

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Study and develop a leader algorithm in a distributed system of sensor nodes deployed in harsh environments
Mouna Safir
Since September 2025, PostDoc, ENS Lyon

Master Students

Design and Evaluation of Interference Handling Mechanisms in Flow-Level Simulators
Stian Alexander Solli
August 2024 to May 2025, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Disks energy consumption: an in depth study
Amayes Djermoune
March 2025 to June 2025, Master Student, UVSQ, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Distributed storage and energy consumption: A quantitative analysis for HPC
Gregoire Doebele
June 2022 to August 2022, Master Student, UVSQ, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Non-Opportunistic data transfer for IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems with mostly sleeping nodes
Isak Østrem Hellemo
August 2021 to May 2022, 30 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Building a Neighborhood Resource Map for IoT and Cyber-Physical systems in Resource-Constrained Environments
Sindre Sønvisen
August 2021 to May 2022, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
General Monitoring of Observational Units in the Arctic Tundra
Erlend Melum Karlstrøm
May 2021 to August 2020, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Clock Synchronization between Observational Units in the Arctic Tundra
Sigurd Karlstad
May 2021 to August 2020, 60 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
DaoCron, Job Scheduler for Autonomous Observation Units in the Arctic Tundra
Martin Carstens
June 2019 to January 2019, DAO project, The Arctic University of Norway

Capstone Projects

Distributing Sensor Data With The Publish-Subscribe Pattern
Jørgen Aleksander Larsen
July 2023 to December 2023, 20 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway
Detecting Shooting Results in Biathlon using Computer Vision
Andreas Berntsen Løvland
July 2023 to December 2023, 20 Credits Project, The Arctic University of Norway

Research Engineer

Implementation of a framework to automatically discover, benchmark and evaluate energy leverages
Mathilde Boutigny
March 2018 to October 2016, ELCI project, ENS Lyon
Automation of monitoring of a large scale infrastructure
Olivier Mornard
May 2016 to March 2016, MOEBUS Project, ENS Lyon

Publications


Thesis

Discover, model and combine energy leverages for large scale energy efficient infrastructures
Issam Raïs
2018
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Journal articles

2025

A large-scale study of the impact of node behavior on loosely coupled data dissemination: The case of the distributed Arctic observatory
Loic Guegan, Issam Raïs, Otto Anshus
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 2018
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2019

Performance and energy analysis of OpenMP runtime systems with dense linear algebra algorithms
João Vicente Ferreira Lima, Issam Raïs, Laurent Lefèvre, Thierry Gautier
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 2018
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2018

Quantifying the Impact of Shutdown Techniques for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
Issam Raïs, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Martin Quison and Laurent Lefèvre
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 2018
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2017

Reducing the energy consumption of large scale computing systems through combined shutdown policies with multiple constraints
Anne Benoit, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, and Issam Raïs
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, June 2017
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International Conferences articles

2025

CPU Frequency Aware Power Modeling for IoT Edge Nodes
Vladimir Ostapenco, Loïc Guégan, Salma Tofaily, Issam Raïs and Laurent Lefèvre
33rd International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication System (MASCOTS 2025) , Paris, France, 2025
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Using Analytics to Predict Data Dissemination Policy Under Energy and Coverage Constraints
Loïc Guégan, Issam Raïs and Otto J. Anshus
21st IEEE International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (IEEE PE-WASUN 2025, MSWiM 2025) , Barcelona, Spain, 2025
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2024

Fast Choreography of Cross-DevOps Reconfiguration with Ballet: A Multi-Site OpenStack Case Study
Jolan Philippe, Antoine Omond, Hélène Coullon, Charles Prud’Homme and Issam Raïs
IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER2024) , Rovaniemi, Finland, 2024
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2023

Design and Evaluation of Single-Board Computer Based Power Monitoring for IoT and Edge Systems
Loic Guegan, Salma Tofaily, Issam Raïs
The 19th IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2023) , Hainan, China, 2023
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Evaluating the energy consumption of adaptation tasks for a CPS in the Arctic Tundra
Antoine Omond, Hélène Coullon, Issam Raïs and Otto Anshus
The 19th IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2023) , Hainan, China, 2023
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Simulation of Distributed Systems in Constrained Environments Using ESDS: the Arctic Tundra Case
Loic Guegan and Issam Raïs
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom2023) , Hainan, China, 2023
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Leveraging Relay Nodes to Deploy and Update Services in a CPS with Sleeping Nodes
Antoine Omond, Hélène Coullon, Issam Raïs and Otto Anshus
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom2023) , Hainan, China, 2023
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Representing Power Variability of an Idle IoT Edge Node in the Power State Model
Salma Tofaily Issam Raïs and Otto Anshus
The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom2023) , Hainan, China, 2023
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2022

LoRaLitE: LoRa protocol for Energy-Limited environments
Lukasz Sergiusz Michalik, Loic Guegan, Issam Raïs, Otto Anshus and John Markus Bjørndalen
30th International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS2022), Nice, France, October, 2022
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Impact of loosely coupled data dissemination policies for resource challenged environments
Issam Raïs, Loic Guegan, Otto Anshus
22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Taormina, Italia, May, 2022
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2021

Impact of image compression on CNN performance metrics for CPS nodes at the Arctic Tundra
Steffen Randrup, Issam Raïs, John Markus Bjørndalen, Phuong Hoai Ha, Otto Anshus
CPSCom 21 : The 14th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Melbourne, Australia, December, 2021
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Experiences Building and Deploying Wireless Sensor Nodes for the Arctic Tundra
Michael J. Murphy, øystein Tveito, Eivind Flittie Kleiven, Issam Raïs, Eeva M. Soininen, John Markus Bjørndalen, Otto Anshus
CCGrid 2021 : The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, Melbourne, Australia, 10-13 May, 2021
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2020

Trading Data Size and CNN Confidence Score for Energy Efficient CPS Node Communications
Issam Raïs, Otto Anshus, John Markus Bjørndalen, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Manish Parashar
CCGrid 2020 : The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, Melbourne, Australia, 11-14 May, 2020
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2019

Leveraging energy-efficient non-lossy compression for data-intensive applications
Issam Raïs, Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Laurent Lefèvre, Manish Parashar
HPCS 2019 : The 17th Annual Meeting of International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, Dublin, Irland, 15-19 July, 2019
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2018

Automatic Energy Efficient HPC Programming: A Case Study
Issam Raïs, Hélène Coullon, Laurent Lefèvre, Christian Pérez
ISPA 2018 : 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, Melbourne, Australia, 11-13 December, 2018
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Exploiting the Table of Energy and Power Leverages
Issam Raïs, Laurent Lefevre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Anne Benoit
ICA3PP 2018 : 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Guangzhou, China, November 15-17, 2018
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Building the Table of Energy and Power Leverages for Energy Efficient Large Scale Systems
Issam Raïs, Mathilde Boutigny, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Anne Benoit
HPCS : The 16th Annual Meeting of International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, Orléans, France, July 16-20, 2018
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Thermal aware scheduling on distributed computing water heaters
Issam Raïs, Eddy Caron and Laurent Lefèvre
CCNC : IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, USA, January 12-15, 2018
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2017

Shutdown Policies with Power Capping for Large Scale Computing Systems
Anne Benoit, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Raïs, Issam
Europar 2017 : International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 2017
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Towards Energy Budget Control in HPC
Pierre-François Dutot, Yiannis Georgiou, David Glesser, Laurent Lefèvre, Millian Poquet, and Issam Raïs
17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), Madrid, Spain, May 2017
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2016

Impact of Shutdown Techniques for Energy-Efficient Cloud Data Centers
Issam Raïs, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, and Martin Quinson
International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Granada, Spain, December 2016
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International Workshop articles

2023

Quantifying the variability of power and energy consumption for IoT edge nodes
Salma Tofaily, Issam Raïs and Otto Anshus
UrbCom 5th International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbCom, DCOSS-IoT 2023), Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
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Weather-Aware Wake-Up of Sleeping Cyber-Physical IoT Nodes
Steffen Randrup, John Markus Bjørndalen, Issam Raïs, Phuong Hoai Ha, Otto Anshus
1st International Workshop on Long and Short Range Wireless Technologies Applied to IoT for Networks of Tomorrow (LS-NoT, DCOSS-IoT 2023), Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus
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Validation of ESDS using epidemic-based data dissemination algorithms
Loic Guegan, Issam Raïs and Otto Anshus
5th International Workshop on IoT Applications and Industry 5.0 (IoTI5 2023, DCOSS-IoT 2023), Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus 2023
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2021

Distribution of Updates to IoT Nodes in a Resource-Challenged Environment
Roberth Tollefsen, Issam Raïs, John Markus Bjørndalen, Phuong Hoai Ha, Otto Anshus
Cloud2Things - 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Melbourne, Australia, May 2021
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2019

Uavs as a leverage to provide energy and network for cyber-physical observation units on the arctic tundra
Issam Raïs, John Markus Bjørndalen, Phuong Hoai Ha, Ken-Arne Jensen, Lukasz Sergiusz Michalik, Håvard Mjøen, Øystein Tveito, Otto Anshus
Wi-DroIT 2019 : International Workshop on Wireless sensors and Drones in Internet of Things - International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Santorini, Greece, May 2019
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2018

Performance and Energy Analysis of OpenMP Runtime Systems with Dense Linear Algebra Algorithms
João Lima, Issam Raïs, Laurent Lefèvre, Thierry Gautier
Workshop WAMCA : 8th Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures during SBAC-PAD 2017 - International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Campinas, Brazil, October 2017
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2016

An Analysis of the Feasibility of Energy Harvesting with Thermoelectric Generators on Petascale and Exascale Systems
Issam Raïs, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne Benoit, and Anne-Cécile Orgerie
Workshop Optimization of Energy Efficient HPC & Distributed Systems (OPTIM 2016) - The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016), Innsbruck, Austria, July 2016.
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Teachings

2024

  • Parallel Programming (inf-3201), UiT, Tromsø, Course responsible (Norway)

2023

  • Parallel Programming (inf-3201), UiT, Tromsø, Course responsible (Norway)
  • Operating System Fundamentals (inf-2201), UiT, Tromsø (Norway)

2022

  • Parallel Programming (inf-3201), UiT, Tromsø, Course responsible (Norway)
  • Operating System Fundamentals (inf-2201), UiT, Tromsø (Norway)

2021

  • Parallel Programming (inf-3201), UiT, Tromsø (Norway)
  • Operating System Fundamentals (inf-2201), UiT, Tromsø (Norway)

2020

  • Operating System Fundamentals (inf-2201), UiT, Tromsø (Norway)

2017 - 2018

  • Project (L3), ENS Lyon, Lyon (France)
  • Parallelism (M1), UCBL1, Lyon (France)
  • Distributed algorithms (M1), UCBL1, Lyon (France)

2016 - 2017

  • Project (M1), ENS Lyon, Lyon (France)
  • Parallelism (M1), UCBL1, Lyon (France)
  • Distributed algorithms (M1), UCBL1, Lyon (France)