Julien Bourgeois is professor of computer science at the University of Franche-Comté (UFC) in France. He is part of the FEMTO-ST institute (UMR CNRS 6174) where he leads the complex networks team. His research interests are in distributed intelligent MEMS, P2P networks and security management for complex networks. He is currently visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has been invited professor at Emory University (US) in 2011 and in Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2010 and 2011. He co-lead the distributed sensor/actuators MEMS network topic in the CNRS PPF Distributed Intelligent Microsystems. He created and then co-led the Smart Surface project. In 2011, he created the Smart Blocks project which aims at building a self-reconfigurable conveying modular plate-form composed of MEMS sensors and actuators.