Rate My Professor Romuald Rocher

Romuald Rocher is an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at the University of Rennes 1, affiliated with the IUT of Lannion and the IRISA laboratory's CAIRN team since September 2008. Previously, he held the position of Assistant Professor (ATER) from September 2006 to August 2008 at the University of Rennes 1, ENSSAT, and IUT Lannion, also as a member of the CAIRN project-team. Rocher earned his Engineering degree and M.Sc. in Electronics and Signal Processing Engineering from ENSSAT, University of Rennes 1, in 2003. He completed a Master of Science in Signal Processing at the University of Rennes 1 from September 2002 to September 2003, followed by his PhD from October 2003 to September 2006 at the University of Rennes 1 in Lannion, under the direction of Olivier Sentieys. His doctoral thesis, defended in 2006, is titled "Analytical Accuracy Evaluation of Fixed-point systems." Currently, he serves as the Head of the Networks and Telecommunications department at IUT Lannion, overseeing programs such as the BUT Réseaux & Télécommunications with a cybersecurity track.

Rocher's research interests center on floating-point to fixed-point conversion, adaptive filtering, and cryptography. His contributions to the field include 5 international journal publications and 17 international conference papers. Notable works encompass "Analytical Fixed-Point Accuracy Evaluation in Linear Time-Invariant Systems" (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2008, with D. Menard and O. Sentieys), "Accuracy Evaluation of Fixed-Point based LMS Algorithm" (Digital Signal Processing, Elsevier, 2010, with D. Menard, O. Sentieys, and P. Scalart), "Analytical Approach for Numerical Accuracy Estimation of Fixed-Point Systems Based on Smooth Operations" (IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2012, with D. Menard, O. Sentieys, and P. Scalart), and "Fixed-Point Configurable Hardware Components" (EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 2006, with D. Menard, N. Herve, and O. Sentieys). At IUT Lannion, he teaches undergraduate courses (L1 and L2) in electronics (components, filtering, signal generators), telecommunications (analog modulation, sampling, converters), digital signal processing (FFT, digital filters), and digital communications (modulation, OFDM, CDMA, SDH).