IRP CNRS · IAoundé · MLNS2

Workshop
IAoundé &
MLNS2 2026

A joint workshop by IAoundé and MLNS2 (IRP CNRS), bringing together researchers, PhD students and practitioners from Cameroon and France to advance distributed systems, IoT, virtualisation, and AI.

Dates Feb 15 – 22, 2026
Location Yaoundé, Cameroon
Format Talks + Practical Labs
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About the Workshop

The IAoundé & MLNS2 2026 Workshop is a five-day scientific event organised by the IAoundé initiative and the MLNS2 International Research Partnership (IRP CNRS), held in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

The workshop strengthens collaboration between Cameroonian institutions and French research teams from Inria, LIG/UGA (Grenoble INP), UY1 and others, fostering knowledge transfer and joint research in distributed systems, virtualisation, networking, and AI.

Sessions combine invited talks by senior researchers and PhD students with hands-on practical labs covering virtualisation, BPF, networking, privacy, and IoT.

8
Days
25+
Speakers
4
Practical Labs
3
Countries
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Programme

09:00 – 09:45
Welcome & Registration of Participants
09:45 – 10:00
Opening Address
10:00 – 11:00
Handling the Double Paging Problem
Luc Mahop · UGA
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
Be My Guest – MCS Lock Now Welcomes Guests
Lado Saha (Toulouse INP) & Develine Ngoufack (UY1)
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:00
Practical Lab — Virtualisation
Alain Tchana · Grenoble INP
09:00 – 09:45
UPIPO
Kilian Kemgne · Toulouse INP / IRIT / SEPIA
09:45 – 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00
Contextual Cloud Steganography (CCS): Breaking the Capacity-Security Trade-Off
Stéphane Mossebo · UY1
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
A Cooperative Para-virtualized Scheduling Framework for Manycore Machines
Isabelle Nishimwe & Wilfried Yotat
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 17:00
Practical Lab — VM Introspection
Dufy Teguia (UGA) & Louis Duval (Grenoble INP)
09:00 – 09:45
CrazyOS
Landry Balekamen · UY1
09:45 – 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00
RGPD Enforcement
Nathan Sikati · Grenoble INP
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
LithOS — An Operating System for Efficient Machine Learning on GPUs
Rudy Tchamba · UY1
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15
Practical Lab — Networking
Christian Kamdoum · Grenoble INP
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
IBARA — A Micro-cluster
Achaire Zogo · UYA
09:00 – 09:45
Virtualisation Lab Debrief
Roy Fru · ENSPY
09:45 – 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00
Meshtastic in Cameroon
Dony Metili & Arole Fokou · ESTLC
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
Tapestry: Revealing Wait-For Dependencies Between Application Threads
Gabriel Nana (ENSPY) & Prisca Kamdom (UY1)
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00
Practical Lab — IoT
Dony Metili & Arole Fokou · ESTLC
15:00 – 17:00
IoT & Environment
Didier Donsez · Grenoble INP
17:00 – 18:00
Building a Research Career
Gohar Irfan Chaudhry · MIT
09:00 – 09:45
Client-side Storage Analysis
Fideline Kuetche & Franck Tamwo · Grenoble INP
09:45 – 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:00
vPIM: Processing-in-Memory Virtualization
Annaelle De Tchoua · UY1
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:00
Confidential VMs Explained: An Empirical Analysis of AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX
Roy Fru & Donal Negou · ENSPY
12:00 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45
Patient Virtuel
Alain Mbo · ENSPY
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:45
GrIOt — Graph-based Modeling of HPC Application I/O Call Stacks for Predictive Prefetch
Ronaldinho Lontsi · UY1
15:45 – 18:00
Memory Management from Userspace
Alain Tchana · Grenoble INP
18:00 – 19:00
Systems Research
Michael Paper · Stanford
Fri 20 – Sun 22 Feb
Working Session — Browser Memory Consumption Analysis
Extended collaborative research session over the weekend
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Speakers

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Organizers

Thomas Bouetou Bouetou
Professor
ENSPY – Yaoundé
Anne Chana
Professor
ENSPY – Yaoundé
Parfait Bessala Bessala
Researcher
UY1 – Université de Yaoundé I
Bernabé Batchakui
Professor
ENSPY – Yaoundé
Alain Tchana
Professor
Grenoble INP – UGA
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