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May 11 2015
Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc: Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson presents his work
Gylfi received his Phd. from Rennes 1 University in 2013. The topic of his thesis was “Parallelism and Distribution for Very Large Scale Content Based Image Retrieval”. During this time, he worked with Hadoop and took part in experiments that involved hundreds of machines from Grid’ 5000 and as many as 100 million images (tens …
May 10 2015
Focus on a joint research project: BIGDATANET
BIGDATANET (2013-2015) A hybrid P2P/cloud for big data Principal Investigators : Dr. Patrick Valduriez, Zenith project-team, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée Prof. Divyakant Agrawal, University of California Santa Barbara Research objectives: With the advent of the Internet and the World-wide-web, there is an emergent need to develop user applications that access data and resources stored …
May 02 2015
Save the date: Stamlins 2015: ICML Workshop on Statistics, Machine Learning and Neuroscience (July 10th, 2015)
The Stamlins 2015 workshop will take place in Lille (France) on July 10th, 2015. It is co-organized by Inria-CEA (Bertrand Thirion, Inria@SiliconValley joint team MetaMRI), Technical University of Denmark (Lars Kai Hansen) and Stanford University (Sanmi Koyejo) Visit the workshop website at: https://sites.google.com/site/stamlins2015/home In the last decade, machine learning has had a growing influence on …
Apr 16 2015
Interview: Hélène Kirchner tells us about BIS workshop
Hélène Kirchner, former Director of Inria International Relations, tells us about BIS workshop . Hélène, what is “BIS” workshop? « BIS» stands for Berkeley-Inria-Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and Stanford University being the first Californian universities with joint research projects with Inria when the Inria@SiliconValley program was launched in 2011 with CITRIS. Continuing the work with theese two …
Apr 15 2015
Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc: Jessica Oakes presents her work
Jessica Oakes received her PhD from University of California San Diego in Mechanical Engineering. She started collaborating with the CARDIO team during a three-month internship in 2011 and returned as a Whitaker Postdoctoral Scholar for a year in 2014. Jessica is now continuing her work with the support of an Inria@SiliconValley postdoctoral fellowship. Jessica’s research interests …
Apr 14 2015
Focus on a joint research project: AQUARIUS
AQUARIUS (2011-2017) Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification Applied to CFD Problem Principal Investigators : Dr. Pietro Marco Congedo, CARDAMOM project-team, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino, Stanford University. Research objectives: Aquarius deals with the development of uncertainty quantification methods and its application to Computational Fluid Dynamics problems. It involves the Inria team CARDAMOM (P.M. Congedo) and …
Apr 14 2015
3 Inria spin-offs will be coached to launch onto the U.S. market
Inria’s goal is to ensure that its research has the greatest possible economic and societal impact by stimulating innovation through the transfer of its skills and technologies. Inria makes technology transfer a priority by helping to launch new companies. In that direction, PRIME & French Tech Hub are offering soft-landing facilities for 3 selected start-ups …
Mar 16 2015
Inria International Chairs: Call for applications
. Inria is hiring experienced researchers for long visits (12 months along five years), giving them the opportunity to develop or strengthen collaborations in their expertise fields/areas with Inria project-teams. Deadline for submission is September 15th, 2015. The number of available positions for 2016 will be determined early 2016. . . Eligibility : Have your main professional activity outside …
Mar 13 2015
Towards better means for democratic assembly and collective action: the AppCivist Project
Inria with CITRIS and its partners at University of California Berkeley have engaged into research collaboration on smart cities, leveraging their related initiatives in the area among which the CityLab@Inria Project Lab – under creation at Inria – and the CITRIS core initiatives on “Data and Democracy” and “Intelligent Infrastructure”. AppCivist is part of this …
Mar 12 2015
Inria International Chair: Interview with Mathieu Desbrun and Pierre Alliez
Inria is digitalizing our environment Display our world in three dimensions: that is the objective of the Titane team, directed by Pierre Alliez. For the next five years, Pierre will be working with Professor Mathieu Desbrun, the Head of the Information Sciences and Mathematics Department of Caltech (United States), within the framework of an Inria …
