Oct 11 2017
STATWEB (2011-13) Fast statistical analysis of web data via sparse learning Principal Investigators: Dr. Francis Bach, SIERRA project-team, Inria Paris Rocquencourt Prof. Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: STATWEB aims to provide web-based tools for the analysis and visualization of large corpora of text documents, with a focus on databases of …
Oct 11 2017
France-Stanford – 2018 call for Collaborative Projects, Fellowships and Conferences The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, founded in partnership with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims to bridge the disciplines of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Engineering, Business and Law, addressing historical and contemporary issues of significance for France and the United States from …
Sep 14 2017
Thomas Watteyne, EVA Inria research team and Ziran Zhang, Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc, attended the VivaTechnology trade-show in Paris last June to promote the SmartMarina project. The goal of the project is to build a system composed of sensors deployed all over the marina, and advanced software to monitor the occupation of moorings, and the electricity and water consumption on each spot. The result …
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 …
Sep 13 2017
Every year Inria@SiliconValley launches a call for Post-Doc Fellowships. After a tough competition, we are please to congratulate Melissa Ailem, Shuxia Tang and Georgios Bouloukakis who have been selected! Melissa Ailem will conduct her post-Doc within the LEGO associate team between the MAGNET Inria Team (Lille) and Fei Sha‘s team at USC. “Transfer and multi-modal learning of word representations” Recently, word …
Sep 13 2017
Fulbright Fellowships for PhD students and Researchers are now open for French candidates. Deadline for submission is February 1st, 2018. 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 do …
Sep 13 2017
Professor Gupta’s research interests span topics in embedded and cyber-physical systems with a focus on energy efficiency from algorithms, devices to systems that scale from IC chips, and data centers to built environments such as commercial buildings. He currently leads NSF project MetroInsight with the goal to organize and use city-scale sensing data for improved services. …
Sep 13 2017
SPLENDID (2012-2014) Self-paced learning for exploiting noisy, diverse or incomplete data Principal Investigators: Dr. Nikos Paragios, GALEN project-team, Inria Saclay Île-de-France Prof. Daphne Koller, Stanford University Research objectives: Supervised learning requires that all the samples in the training dataset are fully annotated. In many cases, the collection of such datasets is either impossible to obtain …
Jul 03 2017
The 7th annual Inria@SiliconValley workshop, took place on June 8-9, 2017 at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute in Berkeley. The workshop gathered more than 150 participants over the two-day event organized around an international open conference and working sessions. June 8, 2017: #BLOCKCHAINFORGOOD For the 2017 edition, Inria@SiliconValley partnered with the CTIRIS and Banatao Institue to organize …
