Inria@Silicon Valley working seminar – October 2014

Inria@Silicon Valley working seminar – October 2014

On the occasion of the visit of Prof. Michel Cosnard (Inria Chairman and CEO from May 2006 to Sept. 2014) in the Bay area, an Inria@Silicon Valley workshop with Inria visiting scholars in the Bay area was organized at CITRIS on 30 October 2014. This was the occasion to exchange about ongoing and foreseen research collaborations with Inria@Silicon Valley partners, University of California Berkeley and Stanford University.

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The program of the workshop was as follows:

  • Modelling nucleic acids and proteins: insights into statistics and robotics inspired techniques
    Julie Bernauer, Inria researcher, sabbatical at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource / SLAC
    (Associate team ITSNAP / Inria AMIB)
  • Aerosol Deposition in the Lung: In Health and Emphysema
    Jessica Oakes, Inria Postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley
    (Associate team CARDIO / Inria REO)
  • Harnessing clouds to do content-based image retrieval
    Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson, Inria Postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley
    (Collaboration between Inria TexMex and AmpLab @ UC Berkeley)
  • Weakly supervised information extraction
    Edouard Grave, Inria Postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley & CITRIS
    (Associate team STATWEB / Inria SIERRA)
  • Democratizing Urban Data in Smart Cities

Sara Hachem, Inria Postdoc researcher at UC Berkeley & CITRIS
(CityLab Inria-CITRIS/ Inria MiMove)

  • Deterministic Networking in the Industrial IoT
    Thomas Watteyne, Dust Networks & UC Berkeley
    (SRP with Hipercom 2 / EVA starting 01/2015)
  • Communication optimal algorithms for linear algebra
    Laura Grigori, senior researcher, Inria / UC Berkeley
    (Associate team COALA, Inria ALPINES & UC Berkeley)
  • ICT for Smart City promoting Citizen Engagement
    Valerie Issarny, Inria Researcher, Inria @ Silicon Valley
    Visiting scholar @ UC Berkeley & CITRIS
    (CityLab Inria-CITRIS, Inria MiMove)