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

u.osmfr.org/m/1116506

Research

Journals

• Kevin Zagalo, Yasmina Abdeddaïm, Avner Bar-Hen, Liliana Cucu-Grosjean. Response Time Stochastic Analysis for Fixed-Priority Stable Real-Time Systems. IEEE Transactions on Computers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023, pp.1-12. 10.1109/TC.2022.3211421, hal-03797980.

Conferences

• M. W. El Khazen, K. Zagalo, H. Clarke, M. Mezouak, Y. Abdeddaïm, A. Bar-Hen, S. Ben Amor, R. Bennour, A. Gogonel, K. Kougblenou, Y. Sorel, L. Cucu-Grosjean, 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, pp. 309-312, doi: 10.1109/RTAS54340.2022.00035.

• Kevin Zagalo, Liliana Cucu-Grosjean, Avner Bar-Hen. Identification of execution modes for real-time systems using cluster analysis. 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA, Sep 2020, Vienne, Austria. 10.1109/ETFA46521.2020.9211983, hal-02938202

Preprints

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

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

Theses

• Stochastic analysis of stationary real-time systems, NNT : 2023SORUS394, tel-04378907, Ph. D. thesis supervised by Liliana Cucu-Grosjean (Inria Paris) and Avner Bar-hen (Cnam Paris). Defended on September 28, 2023.

• The Ulam-Hammersley problem, .pdf, Master thesis supervised by Quentin Berger (LPSM, Sorbonne Université). Defended on September 18, 2018.

Software

I mainly implement things in Python.

• An adapted version of SimSo for probabilistic execution times, implemented with Marc-Antoine Auvray

• A Python library for the reparameterized inverse Gaussian distribution, implemented with Olena Verbytska

• A Python library for hypoexponential distributions

Teaching

Currently:

• Radio access networks, INSA Lyon, Spring 2026.

• Digital communications, INSA Lyon, Spring 2026.

Past lectures:

• 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.

• 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.