Swan Dubois

Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Swan Dubois is a leading researcher in distributed computing, with a focus on autonomous mobile robots and dynamic networks. Her work addresses fundamental challenges in systems where the environment—such as a graph’s connectivity—can change unpredictably, without stability or periodicity. Dubois’s major contributions include pioneering the study of computability in highly dynamic rings, as demonstrated in her most-cited paper (2017, 23 citations), which explores whether perpetual exploration is possible when edges appear and disappear arbitrarily. She also introduced the concept of gracefully degrading gathering in dynamic rings (2018, 12 citations), enabling robots to maintain partial functionality under adverse conditions, and advanced self-stabilizing algorithms for robots in such environments (2018, 5 citations). Her research bridges theory and practice, offering foundational insights for resilient multi-robot systems. Dubois’s work is notable for its rigorous analysis of impossibility results and algorithmic solutions, making her a key figure in the field of distributed robotics. Her achievements have shaped how researchers approach fault-tolerant coordination in dynamic, real-world networks.