Executive summary

I am an IT professional with more than six years of experience in consulting, software engineering and project management. I am currently doing a PhD in Information Systems at the Distributed Object Programming Lab of HEC Lausanne (University of Lausanne - Switzerland). My area of research is related to human mobility and distributed systems.

During my master’s in Information Systems, I worked on indoor tracking systems by implementing a system that balanced ubiquity, accuracy, and cost. Prior to this experience, I led the development of a national portal of Investment for the Republic of Guinea and, along with a team, made a mapping of the Guinean private sector as a consultant for a World Bank Project (IDA H 8670 – GN).

My area of expertise ranges from collecting, analyzing and modeling location data as well as managing IT projects in controlled environments.

Experience

  • Doctoral Researcher & Graduate Teaching Assistant (HEC Lausanne – Switzerland), March 2020 - Now
  • Student Teaching Assistant (HEC Lausanne - Switzerland), November 2018 - February 2020
  • IT Business Analyst (Matchmore - Lausanne, Switzerland), June 2018 - October 2018
  • IT support (Infomaniak - Geneva, Switzerland, 40%), March 2018 - August 2018
  • Consultant, Head of the IT department (WorldBank IDA H 8670 / Private Investment Promotion Agency - Conakry, Guinea), June 2014 - November 2016
  • Co-founder & Lead developer (Techevox - Conakry, Guinea), December 2015 - January 2017

Teaching assistantships

Thesis supervision

  • Stergios Konstantinidis (2024). Enhancing the Mobixim Framework: Interface Adjustments and Feature Implementations for Collaborative Indoor Tracking Systems.
  • Shahzeb Ahmed, (2022). Privacy risks related to Indoor Positioning Systems.
  • Sarah Büchner, (2021). Parky, an Attempt to make Cities Smarter.

Publications

  • A. Diallo, S. Konstantinidis and B. Garbinato, “A Pragmatic Trade-Off Between Deployment Cost and Location Accuracy for Indoor Tracking in Real-Life Environments,” 2024 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), Antwerp, Belgium, 2024, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ICL-GNSS60721.2024.10578486. keywords: {Accuracy;Costs;Pedestrians;Magnetic sensors;Logic gates;Mobile handsets;Spatial indexes;Indoor Tracking;Drift-Correction;Clustering Algorithms;Spatial Indexing},
  • Diallo, A., Garbinato, B. (2024). Decentralized Collaborative Inertial Tracking. In: Zaslavsky, A., Ning, Z., Kalogeraki, V., Georgakopoulos, D., Chrysanthis, P.K. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. MobiQuitous 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 593. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63989-0_2
  • A. Diallo and B. Garbinato, “Mobixim: A Framework for Devising Collaborative Algorithms,” in WiP Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation - Work-in-Progress Papers (IPIN-WiP 2023) co-located with 13th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2023), vol. Vol-3581. CEUR-WS, Sep. 2023. [Online]. Available: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3581/196WiP.pdf

Projects

Certifications

  • Prince 2 Foundation

Interests: Robotics, Human Mobility, Distributed Systems, Indoor Positioning, Information Security and Privacy.