XtremeLogic, co-founded by Inria researchers Christophe Alias, and Alexandru Plesco, is a new start-up offering next generation green high-performance computing on FPGAs with up to 100 times better performance/watt ratio than existing solutions. In 2015 the start-up was selected in the framework of the NETVA program. Alexandru Plesco, who was the Startup Project Manager and is now XtremeLogic CEO/CTO, tells us about …
Category: Interview
Feb 17 2016
Interview: Thierry Priol reviews 2015 and tell us what to expect from Inria@SiliconValley in 2016!
Thierry Priol, Inria’s Director of European & International Partnerships (DPEI) tells us about Inria@SiliconValley program’s 2015 highlights and what to look forward to in 2016. Thierry, can you tell us about the highlights of 2015 regarding the Inria@SiliconValley program? TP: 2015 was a fruitful year for Inria’s collaboration with California partners! With 15 joint research projects through the “Associate …
Nov 23 2015
Interview: Chrisitine Azevedo Coste presents her collaboration with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Stanford University awarded with a collaborative research grant from the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Christine Azevedo Coste DEMAR Inria Project Team Christine Azevedo Coste is Dr.-Ing. research scientist at INRIA/LIRMM, Montpellier, France within the DEMAR Inria project-team. Christine got her PhD and “Habilitation à Diriger les recherches” in 2002 and 2014, respectively. Christine and Jessica Rose, Professor in the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford University and director of …
Oct 26 2015
Interview: Thomas Watteyne, EVA research team and REALMS associate team, presents his research, his collaboration with California and the IPSO Challenge
.Thomas Watteyne is an insatiable enthusiast of low-power wireless mesh technologies. He is a researcher at Inria in Paris, in the new EVA research team, where he designs, models and builds networking solutions based on a variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) standards. He is Senior Networking Design Engineer at Linear Technology, in the Dust Networks product group, the undisputed …
Sep 16 2015
Interview: Thierry Priol, new Director of Inria’s European & International Partnerships Department
Thierry Priol, new Director of Inria’s European and International Partnerships Department, introduces himself and presents the main goals and challenges of this new Department resulting of the merger of the former European Partnerships Department and the International Relations Department. Thierry, in a few words, could you introduce yourself and retrace the different steps of your …
Jul 15 2015
Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc: Sara Hachem presents her work
The Urban Civics Project is part of the CityLab@Inria collaboration with University of California Berkeley towards establishing ICT solutions for smart cities, with the main focus being on engaging citizens towards environmental sustainability and data democratization. To support the research & development of the Urban Civics project, an Inria@SiliconValley postdoctoral research fellowship was awarded to …
May 20 2015
Inria International Chair: Interview with John Canny (U.C. Berkeley)
John Canny received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics from Adelaide University in South Australia, 1979, a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, Adelaide University, 1980, an M.S. and a Ph.D. from M.I.T, 1983 and 1987, respectively. He joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty of EECS in 1987. John Canny has been awarded an international …
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 …
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 …