Adlen Ksentini (adlen.ksentini@eurecom.fr) is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Cergy-Pontoise in 2005.

From 2006 to 2016, he worked at the University of Rennes 1 as an assistant professor. Since March 2016, he has been a professor in the communication systems department of EURECOM, Sophia-Antipolis, France, where he leads the Network Softwarization group.

He is involved in several European Union projects related to network slicing and 5G, such as the 5G!Drones and MonB5G projects