Tania CASTRO

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France Berkeley Fund 2017 call is now open!

France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 Call for Projects The France Berkeley Fund (FBF) was established in 1993 as a partnership between theFrench Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the University of California at Berkeley, the France-Berkeley Fund promotes scholarly exchange in all disciplines between UC Berkeley and all research centers and public institutions of …

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Launch of the ERC-funded ONE project “One is Not Enough”: meeting with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, researcher in the DECIbel Associate Team

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is member of EX-SITU, a joint LRI and Inria Saclay Île-de-France centre team, contributing to the Inria@SiliconValley associate team DECIbel with CITRIS Last spring Michel received an ERC Advanced Grant for his ONE project. The aim of the project is to fundamentally rethink the basic principles and the conceptual model of interactive systems, in order to enable …

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Collaborative project funding opportunities: France Berkeley Fund & France Stanford 2017 call

France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 Call for Projects The France Berkeley Fund (FBF) was established in 1993 as a partnership between theFrench Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the University of California at Berkeley, the France-Berkeley Fund promotes scholarly exchange in all disciplines between UC Berkeley and all research centers and public institutions of …

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Mobility Funding opportunities: Chateaubriand STEM and Fulbright Fellowships

STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) 2016-2017 The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship program targets outstanding Ph.D. students enrolled in an American university (U.S. citizenship is not required) who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a 4 to 9 month period. The Office of Science and Technology and …

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Focus on a joint research project: IT-SG-WN

IT-SG-WN (2011-2013) Wireless networks and information theory Principal Investigators:  Dr. François Baccelli, TREC project-team, Inria Paris Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: The research is centered on the interplay between stochastic geometry and network information theory, with a particular emphasis on wireless networks. In terms of research, two main lines of thought are: …

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Nina Miolane and Ziran Zhang: Awardees of the 2016 Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Every year Inria@SiliconValley launches a call for Post-Doc Fellowships. After a tough competition, we are please to congratulate Nina Miolane and Ziran Zhang who have been selected.   Nina Miolane will conduct her post-Doc within the GeomStats associate team between the ASCLEPIOS Inria Team (Sophia-Antipolis) and Susan Holmes’ team at Stanford University: “Geometric Hierarchical Model of the …

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Interview: Adrien Bousseau, Inria Sophia Antipolis, receives an ERC Starting Grant.

Adrien Bousseau is a researcher from the GRAPHDECO project team at Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée. He is also the French principal investigator of the Inria@SiliconValley associate team CRISP (Creating and rendering images based on the study of perception) with UC Berkeley. Specialist in digital imaging, Adrien received one of the three Eurographics best thesis prizes in 2011. …

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Fulbright Fellowships for French PhD students and Researchers: deadline is February 1st, 2017

. Fulbright Fellowships for PhD students and Researchers are now open for French candidates. Deadline for submission is February 1st, 2017.   Fulbright Fellowship for PhD students: This fellowship is eligible to French PhD students, doing their Doctorate in France, invited in a US university for a research stay. Note: Current PhD students willing to …

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France Berkeley Fund & France-Stanford 2016 results: 2 involving Inria

The France-Berkeley Fund and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies published the list of their 2016 call laureates, of which 2 involving collaborations with Inria teams: Congratulations to the laureates! France Berkeley Fund 2016 awardees: SHRIMP: Smart Harbor Implementation: Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Watteyne,  EVA Inria Research Team, Inria Paris …

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Focus on a joint research project: HYPERION

HYPERION (2012-2014) Large-scale statistical learning for visual recognition Principal Investigators : Dr. Zaid Harchaoui, LE AR project-team, Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes Dr. Cordelia Schmid, LEAR project-team, Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes Prof. Jitendra Malik, University of California Berkeley Prof. Noureddine El Karoui, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: A recent trend in computer vision as well as …

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