Romain Jacob

Best Paper Award at HotCarbon'24

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For the third year in a row, we presented our ongoing sustainable networking work at HotCarbon.
Cherry on the cake: We had the pleasure of receiving the Best Paper Award! Check it out!

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Pledge to Open Science - 2024 review

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

After 4.5 years, I finally took the time to assess my commitment to my pledge to open science. A nice opportunity to reflect on my past choices–and do some adjustments.

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Pledge to Open Science - 2024 review

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019, as I was approaching the end of my doctorate, I decided to commit to open science practices. Why? Can’t say it any better than Erin McKiernan, who inspired me to do this.

If I am going to “make it” in science, it has to be on terms I can live with.

More than four years have passed. It is time to look back and assess how truthful I have been to my own commitment. And maybe make a couple of adjustments.

Spoiler alert: I’m writing this primarily for myself. So, unless you are somehow particularly interested in what’s happening in my life, you should close this tab and move on with your day.

Still reading? Let’s go then!

Step 1: Assessment

I will not edit, review, or work for closed or hybrid access journals or conferences.

This is an easy one: The pledge gave me an ethically a

Lecture material on Sustainable Networking

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

To wrap up 2023, I had the pleasure of giving a 2-hour lecture on Sustainable Networking for Master’s students.
As always, I learned a lot while preparing to teach this class. It also made me aware of how much I’ve learned about sustainability in the past 18 months; back then, I knew pretty much nothing about what I just taught. 😅

The slides’ PDF and sources are openly available. You’re welcome to take/adapt/reuse. I’d be happy to know if you do so! 🙃

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Presentation at HotCarbon

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have been really happy to present our first technical paper at the 2023 HotCarbon workshop. That marks the first milestone of my journey researching “sustainable networking.” Check it out!

Joining the ORCID Researcher Advisory Council

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I have been selected to serve in the very first Researcher Advisory Council of ORCID.

I hope to assist ORCID in its mission to “help (researchers) spend more time conducting their research and less time managing it.” How cool is that?

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Curating your professional network

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

My 2022 email picture: Me and my daughter focused on our task.

As a young researcher, you are often told that “it’s important to network,” that you should know a lot of people, and that they should know you. I agree, it’s important. But this post is not about building up your network.

It’s about getting people to remember you.

TL;DR
Shortly after the New Year, I send a short email with some professional and personal updates (about half-half), with a picture of a fond memory from the year.

Everyone has a network

We all know people. We have supervisors, collaborators, colleagues; people we work with. That’s your professional network. But people move on, they graduate, they

Starting as Editor-in-Chief for JSys

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

It is my pleasure to serve as one of the JSys Editors-in-Chief.

Looking forward to helping bring your research to the world, with high quality review, artifact evaluation, and of course, no fees nor paywall!

JSys website

TriScale Tutorial at SIGCOMM

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Last week, I held a half-day tutorial about TriScale at ACM SIGCOMM. That was the opportunity for

Check-it out and spread the word! Let’s foster replicability in networking research!

Tutorial recording (1h40)

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Joining SwissRN

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Happy to announce that I officially joined the Swiss Reproducibility Network, an academic-driven consortium that aims to promote and ensure rigorous research practices in Switzerland!

SwissRN website