PhD Researcher · Lab-STICC · ENSTA Paris

Hocine
Mahni

HPC Storage & I/O Optimization
Data Placement on Heterogeneous & Multilevel Storage Systems

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Hello! I am Hocine Mahni, a PhD researcher at the Lab-STICC laboratory, affiliated with ENSTA | Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

My research focuses on data placement strategies for heterogeneous and multilevel storage systems, particularly in the context of high-performance computing. I am interested in improving I/O efficiency, storage resource utilization, and data management policies for large-scale scientific applications.

Lab-STICC Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance
ENSTA Institut Polytechnique de Paris
CEA French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
UBO Université de Bretagne Occidentale

Academic Background

2022 — Present

PhD in HPC Data Placement

ENSTA | Institut Polytechnique de Paris

DataMeSS: HPC Data Placement on Heterogeneous and Multilevel Storage Systems

2019 — 2021

Master in Big Data Analytics

USTHB — University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene

Big Data Analytic Methods & Decision Support

2016 — 2019

Licence in Operational Research

USTHB — University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene

Research in Operational Decision Methods

Professional Track

2024

Assistant Teacher

ENSTA | Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Database Linear Optimization Intro to Programming Embedded Machine Learning
Aug 2021 — Nov 2022

Information Systems Administrator Engineer DevOps

SONELGAZ (ELIT) — Algiers, Algeria

GitLab CI / Jenkins Ansible Docker / Kubernetes PostgreSQL KVM / VMware Node.js · Java EE
Feb — Jul 2021

Intern — Master's Final Project

SONELGAZ (Ex-ELIT) — Algiers, Algeria

Design and implementation of a decision-support system for datacenter administration tasks.

Jan — Jul 2019

Intern — Bachelor's Final Project

USTHB

Development of a decision-support tool for managing faculty assignments.

Publications

Institutional Collaborators

CEA
ENSTA Paris
Lab-STICC

Let’s connect.

Open to collaborations, research discussions & opportunities.