Category: Research

France-Stanford & France Berkeley Fund 2015: 3 Inria awardees

The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the France-Berkeley Fund published the list of their 2015 call laureates, of which  3 Inria awardees.. France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies 2015-2016 awardees: Visiting Student Researcher Fellowship in Computer Science:Gabin Personeni, LORIA/INRIA, Nancy, France The widespread use of patient Electronic Health Records in hospitals generates large volumes of …

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Inria@SiliconValley 2011-2014 Activity Report

The Inria@SiliconValley Program builds research and innovation partnerships in California, with the aim to carry out joint projects with a transatlantic impact. The program was initiated in 2011 based on Inria collaborations with University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University and has since been expanding. The program leverages the Inria International mobility and Associate …

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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 …

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Focus on a joint research project: BIGDATANET

  BIGDATANET (2013-2015) A hybrid P2P/cloud for big data Principal Investigators : Dr. Patrick Valduriez, Zenith project-team, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée Prof. Divyakant Agrawal, University of California Santa Barbara Research objectives: With the advent of the Internet and the World-wide-web, there is an emergent need to develop user applications that access data and resources stored …

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Save the date: Stamlins 2015: ICML Workshop on Statistics, Machine Learning and Neuroscience (July 10th, 2015)

The Stamlins 2015 workshop will take place in Lille (France) on July 10th, 2015. It is co-organized by Inria-CEA (Bertrand Thirion, Inria@SiliconValley joint team MetaMRI), Technical University of Denmark (Lars Kai Hansen) and Stanford University (Sanmi Koyejo) Visit the workshop website at: https://sites.google.com/site/stamlins2015/home In the last decade, machine learning has had a growing influence on …

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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 …

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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 …

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Focus on a joint research project: AQUARIUS

AQUARIUS  (2011-2017) Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification Applied to CFD Problem Principal Investigators : Dr. Pietro Marco Congedo, CARDAMOM project-team, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino, Stanford University. Research objectives: Aquarius deals with the development of uncertainty quantification methods and its application to Computational Fluid Dynamics problems. It involves the Inria team CARDAMOM (P.M. Congedo) and …

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Workshop: Neuroimaging meta-analysis methods – 21-22 April 2015, Saclay, France.

A workshop  organized as part of the BrainPedia ANR project, the HBP flagship project and the MetaMRI associate team. Neuroimaging produces huge amounts of complex data that are used to better understand the relations between brain structure and various cognitive functions. In the long term, the results of this field will be used to better …

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Focus on a Research Result: Learning from Neuroscience to Improve Internet Security

A research collaboration between Inria (Lead: Claude Castelluccia), Ruhr-University Bochum (Lead: Markus Duermuth), and University of California Berkeley (Lead: Fatma Imamoglu) that operates at the boundaries of Neuroscience and Internet Security with the goal of improving the security and usability of user authentication on the Internet. Most existing security systems are not user friendly and …

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