

{"id":78,"date":"2026-03-16T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:38:02","slug":"program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/program\/","title":{"rendered":"Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\nLocation: Jacques Morgenstern Amphitheatre, Kahn building, Inria Centre at Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06410 Biot, France\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table style=\"width:100%; table-layout:auto; border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<tbody>\n\n<tr style=\"height:36px;\">\n<th style=\"font-weight:bold; text-align:left; background:#333333; color:#ffffff;\">Time\n<\/th><th style=\"font-weight:bold; text-align:left; background:#333333; color:#ffffff;\">Tuesday 8 Sep\n<\/th><th style=\"font-weight:bold; text-align:left; background:#333333; color:#ffffff;\">Wednesday 9 Sep\n<\/th><th style=\"font-weight:bold; text-align:left; background:#333333; color:#ffffff;\">Thursday 10 Sep\n<\/th><th style=\"font-weight:bold; text-align:left; background:#333333; color:#ffffff;\">Friday 11 Sep\n<\/th><\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:25px;\">\n  <td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">08:30-09:00<\/td>\n  <td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background:#f5b7c3; text-align:center;\">Registration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:25px;\">\n  <td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">09:00-10:30<\/td>\n  <td style=\"background:#f5b7c3;\">Opening<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#f4c7a7;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Zwi\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Keynote: AI in radio access networks: challenges and open problems<\/a><br>\nSpeaker: Zwi Altman (Orange Lab)\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Nirupam\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Course: Robust Machine&nbsp;Learning: A Quest to Learning in Untrusted Environment (I)<\/a>\n<br>\nSpeaker: Nirupam Gupta (University of Copenhagen)\n<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Nirupam\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Course: Robust Machine&nbsp;Learning: A Quest to Learning in Untrusted Environment (II)<\/a>\n<br>\nSpeaker: Nirupam Gupta (University of Copenhagen)\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:25px;\">\n<td style=\"background:#f4c7a7;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Alex\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">\nKeynote: Distributed AI at the Edge\n<\/a>\n<br> Speaker: Alexandru Dobrila (Hivenet\/Antimatter)\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\n<tr style=\"height:35px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">10:30-11:00<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background:#dcefd5; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;\">Break<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:75px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">11:00-12:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Fred\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Lecture: Distributed inference in the edge-network-cloud continuum<\/a>\n<br> Speaker: Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Giroire (CNRS)<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Lorenzo\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Lecture: Bayesian optimization: Theory and applications to telecommunications<\/a><br>\nSpeaker: Lorenzo Maggi (NVIDIA)\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Bruno\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Course: Reinforcement learning: from bandits to structured MDPs (I)<\/a>\n<br>\nSpeaker: Bruno Gaujal (Inria)\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Bruno\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Course: Reinforcement learning: from bandits to structured MDPs (II)<\/a>\n<br>\nSpeaker: Bruno Gaujal (Inria)\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:75px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">12:30-14:00<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"4\" style=\"background:#ffe69a; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle;\">Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:75px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">14:00-15:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#b9d4e8;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/speakers\/#Farnaz\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Lecture:  The Road to Autonomous Networks: AI\/ML Foundations and Frontiers<\/a>\n<br>Speaker: Farnaz Moradi (Ericsson)\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#a6fcf6;\"><strong>Panel:<\/strong> Application and Role of AI in Industry<br>\nPanelists: \n<li>Zwi Altman (Orange)<\/li>\n<li>Alexandru Dobrila (Hivenet\/Antimatter)<\/li>\n<li>Lorenzo Maggi (NVIDIA)<\/li>\n<li>Farnaz Moradi (Ericsson)<\/li>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#d6cce6;\">Student Presentations (<a href=\"#session3\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Session 3<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#d6cce6;\">Student Presentations (<a href=\"#session5\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Session 5<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:35px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">15:30-16:00<\/td>\n<td colspan=\"3\" style=\"background:#dcefd5; text-align:center;\">Break<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#f5b7c3; color:#b00020; font-weight:bold;\">END<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n<tr style=\"height:100px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">16:00-17:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#d6cce6;\">Student Presentations (<a href=\"#session1\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Session 1<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#d6cce6;\">Student Presentations <br>(<a href=\"#session2\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Session 2<\/a>)<\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#d6cce6;\">Student Presentations (<a href=\"#session4\" style=\"color:#8B0000; font-weight:bold;\">Session 4<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height:100px;\">\n<td style=\"width:1%; white-space:nowrap; text-align:left; padding-right:12px;\">19:00-21:30<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td style=\"background:#ffe69a;\">Social Dinner at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelier67.fr\/\">l&#8217;Atelier 67<\/a><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details id=\"session1\" class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>Session 1 (Tuesday 8 Sep): <strong>Efficient Edge Inference<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L\u00e9o Bernard \u2014 Threshold-based Routing for Energy-efficient Experts<br>Kyrylo Tymchenko \u2014 Confidence-Shaped Regression Cascades for Efficient Edge Inference<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details id=\"session2\" class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>Session 2 (Wednesday 9 Sep): <strong>Resource Allocation and Efficient Training<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isidoor Pinillo Esquivel \u2014 Quantized Online Gradient Descent for Constant-Time Caching with Dynamic Regret Guarantees<br>Mariya Peter \u2014 Fairness-Aware Optimal Transport Framework for Flow Allocation in Interconnected Network Systems<br>Nicolas Helson \u2014 Network-Adaptive Gradient Compression for Faster ML Model Training in Datacenters<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details id=\"session3\" class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>Session 3 (Thursday 10 Sep): <strong>Federated Learning: Fairness, Robustness, and Unlearning<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neeraja Sudhakaran \u2014 Towards Fair Federated Learning: Analyzing the Impact of Data Heterogeneity and Data Repair<br>Jingye Wang \u2014 The Praetorian Guard: Unveiling the Vulnerability of Trust-Based Defense in Federated Learning<br>Florian Zimmer \u2014 Enabling Decentralised Federated Unlearning in Industrial Cross-Organisational Environments<br>Panos Raptis \u2014 Dynamic Fairness in Multi-Task Edge Learning<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details id=\"session4\" class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>Session 4 (Thursday 10 Sep): <strong>Reinforcement Learning and AI-Driven Network Intelligence<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sooraj Skanda \u2014 Model-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Integrated Sensing and Communication<br>Andreas Pattichis \u2014 Continual Learning from Streams of Unlabeled Data in LLM Systems<br>Michele Simeone \u2014 Exploring KPI Trade-offs in O-RAN Conflict Resolution with Deep Reinforcement Learning<br>Luigi Rachiele \u2014 From Fixed Pipelines to Agentic Decisions: An LLM Orchestrator for Anomaly Detection in Mobile Network  Drive Tests<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details id=\"session5\" class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\" open><summary>Session 5 (Friday 11 Sep): <strong>Learning and Control under Resource Constraints<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muyun Li \u2014 RL-based Edge Access Control for Time-Sensitive Tasks under Resource Contention<br>Oihan Azkarate Iriarte \u2014 Optimal Control and Learning of Tandem Queues with Transfer Costs<br>Haoming Lin \u2014 Structure of Optimal Admission Control under Resource Constraints<br>Berfin Dinc \u2014 Closed-Loop Control with Delayed Information<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Jacques Morgenstern Amphitheatre, Kahn building, Inria Centre at Universit\u00e9 C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur, 2004 Route des Lucioles, 06410 Biot, France Time Tuesday 8 Sep Wednesday 9 Sep Thursday 10 Sep Friday 11 Sep 08:30-09:00 Registration 09:00-10:30 Opening Keynote: AI in radio access networks: challenges and open problems Speaker: Zwi Altman (Orange\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/finality1stphdschool\/program\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> 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