CV

Contact Information

Name Patrick Finnerty
Professional Title Lecturer
Email finnerty.patrick@boar.kobe-u.ac.jp
Phone (+81) 078 803-6638
Location Graduate School of System Informatics, S504, Nada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501

Professional Summary

Patrick Finnerty obtained his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from INSA Lyon, France in 2018, and his Ph.D. in Engineering from Kobe University in 2022. He has been working as a professor at Kobe University since.
His research interests include parallel and distributed computing techniques on the computing continuum, resource allocation and optimization, load balancing, as well as applications of blockchain technology.
He is a member of the ACM, IEEE Computer Society, the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers (IEICE).

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Kobe, Japan

    Lecturer (講師)
    Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
    Part of the Future Information Network Engineering (FINE) laboratory, headed by Pr. Chikara Ohta
  • 2022 - 2025

    Kobe, Japan

    Assistant Professor (助教)
    Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
    Part of the Future Information Network Engineering (FINE) laboratory, headed by Pr. Chikara Ohta
  • 2025 - present

    Japan

    Technical Committee Member
    IEICE, Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence (SeMI)

Education

Languages

French : Native proficiency
English : Bilingual proficiency
Japanese : Full professional proficiency

Interests

Distributed Systems: Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing Continuum, Load Balancing, Optimization
Blockchain: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Applications to Network Resources Management

Projects