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

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Contact

CITI-Inria Lab.
Office: TLC 233
Bat. Hedy Lamarr, 6 avenue des Arts
69621 Villeurbanne Cedex France

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Publications

Journals

• Zagalo, Kevin, Abdeddaïm, Yasmina, Bar-Hen, Avner, Cucu-Grosjean, Liliana. Response Time Stochastic Analysis for Fixed-Priority Stable Real-Time Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TC.2022.3211421

Conferences

• Khazen, Marwan Wehaiba El, Zagalo, Kevin, Clarke, Hadrien, Mezouak, Mehdi, Abdeddaïm, Yasmina, Bar-Hen, Avner, Amor, Slim Ben, Bennour, Rihab, Gogonel, Adriana, Kougblenou, Kossivi, Sorel, Yves, Cucu-Grosjean, Liliana. Work in Progress: KDBench - towards open source benchmarks for measurement-based multicore WCET estimators. 2022 IEEE 28th Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), 2022. DOI: 10.1109/RTAS54340.2022.00035

• Zagalo, Kevin, Cucu-Grosjean, Liliana, Bar-Hen, Avner. Identification of execution modes for real-time systems using cluster analysis. 2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ETFA46521.2020.9211983

Preprints

• Kevin Zagalo, Avner Bar-Hen. Response time central-limit and failure rate estimation for stationary periodic rate monotonic real-time systems. 2026. arXiv:2211.01720

• Kevin Zagalo, Jean-Marie Gorce, François Baccelli. Decoding Delay Guarantees of Space Regulated Multiple Access Random Wireless Networks using Successive Interference Cancellation. 2026. arXiv:2604.25868

Theses

• Zagalo, Kevin. Stochastic analysis of stationary real-time systems. PhD thesis, 2023. NNT: 2023SORUS394

Teaching

Currently:

• Digital communications, INSA Lyon, Spring 2026.

Past lectures:

• 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 interns

• 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

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

• 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

• External Reviewer of Globecom 2026.

• Program committee member of RTCSA 2026.

• External Reviewer of WCNC 2026.

• Program committee member of RTCSA 2025.

• Local organization of RTSS 2022.

• Web chair of RTNS 2022.

• Workshop Committee member of JRWRTC 2022.

• Workshop Committee member of JRWRTC 2021.

• Local organization of RTNS 2020.