Sep 21 2021
The Franco-American Fulbright Commission launched the Call for projects for the year 2022-2023. It supports study and research projects of French students, PhD students and researchers. It offers about 100 scholarships per year to French candidates, funded by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the U.S. Department of State, the Ministry of Higher Education, …
Dec 21 2017
In 2017 Inria celebrated its 50th anniversary. While remembering all the men and women who, from 1967 to 2017, have made Inria what it is, we shall also be looking ahead to what the future may bring. Inria wants to take the opportunity afforded by this anniversary to think about the digital world in which …
Oct 16 2017
Xavier Pennec, Senior researcher at Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée centre, and co-leader of the Inria@SiliconValley associate team Geomstat with Stanford University, has been elected as a Fellow of the MICCAI scientific society for “pioneering theoretical contributions grounding the field of computational anatomy, shape statistics and medical image computing”. He is the second scientist from the Inria Asclepios project-team …
Sep 13 2017
Maria Laura Delle Monache: a Franco-American journey in traffic flow control Researcher with the NeCS team, Maria Laura Delle Monache has just been awarded the “France-Berkeley Fund award for high-achieving younger researchers”, along with Samitha Samaranayake (Cornell University, PhD UC Berkeley). The prestigious Fund is thereby rewarding the researcher’s commitment to forging links between France …
Sep 13 2017
Demian Wassermann : coding our current knowledge of the brain Researcher in the Athena project-team at Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée, Demian Wassermann has just received a prestigious 2017 “Starting Grant” from European Research Council (ERC). Specialist on mathematical and computational modelling of the brain, he is going to pursue his research in the formalisation of …
Jul 03 2017
On June 7, the “Collège de France” hosted a symposium organized by the France-Berkeley Fund during which Samitha Samaranayake and Maria Laura delle Monache received the “France-Berkeley-Fund Award for high-achieving younger researchers” for their work on the project “Optimal traffic flow with GPS enabled smartphones” (2012 FBF Grant). Maria Laura took part in the optimal reroute …
May 05 2017
The AppCivist project of the Social Apps Lab at CITRIS (Connected Communities Initiative) in partnership with Inria, has won the 2016-17 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the category of Campus-Community Partnership in collaboration with the City of Vallejo. All award recipients were honored at an awards ceremony and reception on May 2, 2017 in Krutch Theatre on the Clark Kerr campus …
May 04 2017
The French Society for Biomedical Engineering (SFGBM) has just given its 2016 Thesis Research Award to Matthieu Lê for his thesis written under the direction of Nicholas Ayache and Hervé Delingette of the Asclepios team at Inria’s Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée research centre. The Asclepios team is part of the Inria@SilivonValley associate team Geomstats with Stanford University. The …
Dec 13 2016
Cordelia Schmid, recognized as one of the worlds’ leading specialists in computer aided vision, heads up the Thoth project team at Inria’s Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research centre. Her research is dedicated to artificial vision, and more particularly the automatic interpretation of digital images and videos. She has made fundamental contributions in the field of representation of …
Dec 13 2016
The 24th edition of the “Femme en Or” award was dedicated to Innovation, with two new categories this year: “Femme de Goût ” (Woman of Taste) promoting the “French art of life” and “Femme de la Smart City” (Smart City Woman) for those who introduce digital science in our cities. The “Femme de la Smart City” …
