Assistant professor in the telecommunication department of INSA Lyon. I do my research in the Maracas team of Inria Lyon hosted in the CITI laboratory. I currently work on latency-focused analyses of random wireless networks based on stochastic geometry approaches. I also host the MARACAS seminar.

Research interests

  • Real-time scheduling

  • Random wireless networks

Contact

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CITI–Inria Lab.
Office TLC 233

Bâtiment Hedy Lamarr
6 avenue des Arts
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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2026

  • Response time central-limit and failure rate estimation for stationary periodic rate monotonic real-time systems

    Kevin Zagalo and Avner Bar-Hen

    IEEE Transactions on Computers

  • Performance Guarantees of SIC-Based Decoding for VLSF Codes in Hardcore-Regulated MAC

    Kevin Zagalo, Guodong Sun, Phillippe Mary, Samir M. Perlaza and Jean-Marie Gorce

    IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

  • Decoding Delay Guarantees of Space Regulated Multiple Access Random Wireless Networks using Successive Interference Cancellation

    Kevin Zagalo, Jean-Marie Gorce and François Baccelli

    Preprint

2023

  • Response Time Stochastic Analysis for Fixed-Priority Stable Real-Time Systems

    Kevin Zagalo, Yasmina Abdeddaïm, Avner Bar-Hen and Liliana Cucu-Grosjean

    IEEE Transactions on Computers

  • Stochastic analysis of stationary real-time systems

    Kevin Zagalo

    PhD thesis · Sorbonne Université

2022

  • Work in Progress: KDBench - towards open source benchmarks for measurement-based multicore WCET estimators

    Marwan Wehaiba El Khazen, Kevin Zagalo, Hadrien Clarke, Mehdi Mezouak, Yasmina Abdeddaïm, Avner Bar-Hen, Slim Ben Amor, Rihab Bennour, Adriana Gogonel, Kossivi Kougblenou, Yves Sorel and Liliana Cucu-Grosjean

    RTAS 2022 - IEEE 28th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium

2020

  • Identification of execution modes for real-time systems using cluster analysis

    Kevin Zagalo, Liliana Cucu-Grosjean and Avner Bar-Hen

    25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA

2018

  • Le probleme d'Ulam-Hammersley

    Kevin Zagalo

    MSc thesis · Sorbonne Université

Teaching

Advanced digital communications · INSA LyonFall 2026
  • Bayesian decision theory

  • Base band signals, channel and noise

  • Gaussian channel, selective channel and OFDM

  • Rayleigh channel, diversity and MIMO

Network performance evaluation · INSA LyonFall 2026
  • Discrete time Markov chains

  • Continuous time Markov chains

  • Queueing theory

  • Jackson networks

Bayesian decision theory · INSA LyonSpring 2027
  • Likelihood, a priori and a posteriori distributions

  • Likelihood ratio test

  • Neyman-Person theorem

  • Bayesian estimators

  • Fisher information and Cramer-Rao theorem

Digital communications · INSA LyonSpring 2027
  • Modulation, I/Q symbols

  • Compression, Huffman codes

  • Linear codes, cyclic codes, Reed-Solomon codes

Radio access networks · INSA LyonSpring 2027
Previous teaching
  • Digital communications, INSA Lyon, Spring 2026.

  • Radio access networks, INSA Lyon, Spring 2026.

  • Advanced digital communications, INSA Lyon, Fall 2025.

  • Network performance evaluation, INSA Lyon, Fall 2025.

  • Introduction to probabilities, INSA Lyon, Fall 2025.

  • Radio Access Network (tutorials), INSA Lyon, Spring 2025.

  • Digital communications, INSA Lyon, Spring 2025.

  • Hertzian and optical propagation, INSA Lyon, Fall 2024.

  • Probabilities, INSA Lyon, Fall 2024.

  • Machine learning, ESIEE, Université Gustave Eiffel, Fall 2021.

  • Probabilities, ESIEE, Université Gustave Eiffel, Spring 2021.

  • Machine learning, ESIEE, Université Gustave Eiffel, Fall 2020.

Student supervision
  • Johan Bartosik, GNN for Joint User Detection and Channel Estimation, 2025.

  • Marc-Antoine Auvray, Autopilot execution time prediction from sensors data, 2022.

  • Olena Verbytska, Parametric estimation of response time distributions of periodic real-time systems, Spring 2022.

  • Margarita Tomina, Multivariate inverse Gaussian applied to response time analysis of real-time systems, Spring 2022.

Activities

Invited talks

  • GLOBECOM 2026, Macau, December, 8 2026.

  • MARACAS Seminar, CITI, November, 26 2026.

  • PEPR Futur networks, PC9 Found Seminar, April, 27 2026.

Earlier talks
  • The Way to 6G Workshop, IEEE MASCOTS, October 23, 2025.

  • Journées PEPR Réseaux du futur, Bordeaux, June 2, 2025.

  • France PhD Information Theory Workshop, Telecom Paris, June 7, 2024. poster

  • Journées PEPR Réseaux du futur, Grenoble, March 20, 2024.

  • MARACAS Seminar, Inria Lyon, October 19, 2023.

  • Real-Time Systems Group Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, July 12, 2023.

  • Verification Seminar, IRIF, February 20, 2023.

Committees

Previous committees & service