Vivien is a Professor of Computer Science at Grenoble INP (ENSIMAG) and a member of the LIG laboratory (ERODS).

Prior to joining Grenoble INP in 2011, he worked as a researcher at CNRS and as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Rome 1 “La Sapienza”. He also visited the LPD laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the LASR laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, and the LIP6-Inria Rocquencourt laboratory.

He received his PhD from Grenoble INP in 2005 and his “habilitation à diriger des recherches” from Grenoble University in 2010. Since 2019, he is a Junior Fellow at Institut Universitaire de France.

His research is about understanding, designing, and building (distributed) systems.