Distributed systems occupy a privileged place at the heart of the research carried out by the department whether they are of reasonable size (the network in the plane of the future) or of planetary scale. They have applications in all areas: Internet of Things, cloud computing, smart grid, smart city, connected car, cryptocurrency, etc …
The department sees its research activity at the confluence of computing and telecommunications, in which knowledge, communication and calculation complement each other.
- Head of department: Van-Tam Nguyen
- Deputy head of development & partnerships: Sébastien Canard
- Deputy Head of teaching: Bertrand Meyer
Latest news

[Ideas] Security of connected vehicles platoons
PhD, Digital Trust, Communication Systems & Networks — 24/03/2026Emma Braiteh: What security measures could be implemented, particularly with the help of [...]
Overview: two years of research
Faculty Members — 20/03/2026This edition of the Télécom Paris Research Overview is a retrospective dedicated dedicated to the scientific advances made within our school in [...]
Best Paper Award at Int'l Semantic Web Conference
PhD, Faculty Members, Modeling — 16/02/2026Y. Peng, Th. Bonald, and F. Suchanek receive a Best Paper Award for their paper “FLORA: Unsupervised Knowledge [...]
European award for the Software Heritage initiative
Faculty Members — 06/02/2026Stefano Zacchiroli was honoured, alongside Roberto Di Cosmo, with a Special Recognition for Community Impact for his work on [...]
[Ideas] Could AI help combat tax evasion?
Data Science & AI, Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 03/02/2026Nils Holzenberger: help legislators to anticipate risks when drafting new laws.










