LEGO (Since 2016) LEarning GOod representations for natural language processing Principal Investigators: Aurélien Bellet, MAGNET project-team, Inria Lille Fei Sha, University of Southern California, Dpt of Computer Science (formerly with TEDS,UCLA) Research objectives: LEGO lies in the intersection of Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Its goal is to address the following challenges: what are the …
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Jan 29 2018
Job opportunities at Inria: PhDs, Starting and Advanced Research Positions 2018
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 2018 starting and experienced research scientists for three-year contracts: About Advanced research positions About Starting research positions Inria also …
Jan 29 2018
French-American Doctoral Exchange Seminar (FADEx) 2018: Artificial Intelligence – Apply now!
The Office for Science & Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States opens the call for application for FADEx 2018! Presentation The French-American Doctoral Exchange (FADEx) program encourages scientific exchanges between American and French Ph.D. students working in the same scientific field through a week-long program organized in France. By doing so, it …
Dec 21 2017
NETVA 2017: 2 “made in Inria” start-ups (Lybero.net and iExec) took off for the United States!
Supported by the scientific and technological services of the French embassies to the US and Canada, the NETVA programme (New Technology Venture Accelerator) helps young French businesses to find their feet across the Atlantic by introducing them to the contacts and resources they need to penetrate the North American market. For the 2017 edition …
Dec 21 2017
Retrospective: Inria@SiliconValley in 2017
Dec 21 2017
Focus on a joint research project: LargeBrainNets
LargeBrainNets (Since 2016) Characterizing Large-scale Brain Networks Using Novel Computational Methods for dMRI and fMRI-based Connectivity Principal Investigators: Demian Wassermann, PARIETAL project-team, Inria Saclay (formerly ATHENA project team, Inria Sophia Antipolis) Vinod Menon, Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory Research objectives: The major goal of this project is to develop and validate sophisticated computational tools for identifying …
Dec 21 2017
1967-2017: Inria celebrated its 50th anniversary!
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 25 2017
France Berkeley Fund 2018 call is now open!
France-Berkeley Fund – 2018 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 …
Oct 16 2017
Xavier Pennec elected Fellow of the MICCAI scientific society
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 …
Oct 16 2017
Open call for STEM Chateaubriand fellowships (2018)
STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathamatics & Biology-Health) 2018-2019 The Chateaubriand Fellowship in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Biology-Health (STEM) for doctoral students aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations, partnerships or joint projects between French and American research teams. The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship program targets outstanding Ph.D. students enrolled in an American university (U.S. citizenship …