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Interview: Alexandru Plesco, CEO/CTO XtremLogic and NETVA 2015 laureate

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 …

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Carlos Canudas awarded with the IEEE Fellow distinction

On 1 January 2016, Carlos Canudas de Wit was elevated IEEE Fellow for his contributions to modeling and control of mechanical, robotic, and networked systems. Carlos, who leads the NECS Inria project team and is director of research at CNRS, has been an automation specialist for more than 20 years; his research on the control …

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Great fun at the OpenWSN & OpenMote tutorial at IEEE GLOBECOM in San Diego!

The OpenWSN project and the OpenMote teamed up to organize the first “OpenWSN & OpenMote” tutorial at the IEEE GLOBECOM conference on 6 December 2015 in San Diego. The very well attended half-day tutorial was a great success (download the flyer: openwsn_tutorial_flyer). The tutorial was organized as a hands-on journey across the Industrial IoT. The first …

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Focus on a joint research project: COMFORT

COMFORT (2014-2016) Control and forecasting in transportation networks Principal Investigators : Prof. Carlos Canudas de Wit, NECS project-team, Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes Prof. Roberto Horowitz, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: COMFORT addresses open issues for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The goal of ITS is to use information technologies (sensing, signal processing, machine learning, communications, and …

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Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doctoral Fellowship Opportunity

In 2016, Inria offers 1 Post-Doc fellowship in the framework of the Inria@SiliconValley program. Deadline for application is April 30th, 2016. Postdoctoral grants are allocated in priority  to existing associate teams. Candidates interested in the projects currently supported by the Inria@SiliconValley program or projects under preparation for this program are welcome to submit their application. Candidates are strongly …

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Job opportunities at Inria: PhDs, Starting and Advanced Research Positions

Are you interested in joining Inria? Do you want to become a researcher, engineer or assist research work at the Institute? Every year, Inria recruits new staff for its research teams through various recruitment procedures.. .Inria hires in 2016 starting and experienced research scientists for three-year contracts! . Inria is now offering: Advanced research positions Starting research positions …

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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 …

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French-American Doctoral Exchange Seminar (FADEx) 2016 : Cyber-Physical Systems

FADEx program encourages scientific exchanges between American and French Ph.D. students working in the same scientific field, and, by doing so, supports the creation of future French-American scientific collaborations. This year, the program will focus on cyber-physical systems, which are made of co-engineered interacting physical and computational hardware and software components. A broad spectrum of …

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Four new Associate Teams and one renewed Team with California Universities

Inria is glad to announce the selection of 4 new Associate Teams with California universities (University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, University of Southern California and University of California Los Angeles) as part of the 2016 Inria Associated Team call. The four teams are created in 2016 for 3 years. In addition, one team that was created …

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Launch of 2 transatlantic activities toward smarter inclusive cities, supported by EIT Digital

The Urban Life and Mobility Action Line of the European  EIT Digital organisation supports 2 transatlantic innovation activities that build upon collaborative research projects undertaken within the CityLab@Inria and Inria@SiliconValley initiatives, and benefit from the newly created IT Digital’s Silicon Valley hub: CivicBudget on “Software platform supporting Internet-based participatory budgeting campaigns” builds upon interdisciplinary research collaboration …

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