Category: Research

Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doctoral Fellowships Opportunity – New deadline: May 11th, 2018

In 2018, Inria offers 2 Post-Doc fellowships in the framework of the Inria@SiliconValley program. Extended deadline for application is May 11th, 2018 (initially April 30th). Postdoctoral grants are allocated to support existing associate teams as well as collaborations between Inria and California teams. Candidates interested in the projects currently supported by the Inria@SiliconValley program or projects under preparation for this …

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Focus on a joint research project: Meta&Co (formerly MetaMRI)

  Meta&Co (Since 2015)  Machine learning for meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging data*   *formerly MetaMRI (from 2015 to 2017): Machine learning for meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging data  Principal Investigators:  Bertrand Thirion, PARIETAL project team, Inria Saclay Ile- de-France research center Russ Poldrack, Stanford University, Psychology department Research objectives: Meta&Co (since 2018) is an associate team that is …

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Interview: Christian Duriez, head of the Inria DEFROST team and Fulbright fellow, presents his work with the CHARM Lab at Stanford university

  Christian Duriez, Inria researcher leading the DEFROST team in Lille, is currently spending 6 months in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) Lab at Stanford University, supported by a Fulbright fellowship. He tells us about his work and the collaboration with his California partner.     Christian, what is your field of research? …

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Focus on a joint research project: NUM4SEP

  NUM4SEP (Since 2017) Numerics for Spherical Electroporation  Principal Investigators:  Clair Poignard, MONC project-team, Inria Bordeaux – Sud-Ouest Research Centre Frederic Gibou, Dpt of Mechanical Eng., U.C. Santa Barbara Research objectives: The goal of NUM4SEP is to provide a link between the quite well-understood cell electroporation and the tumor-like multicellular spheroid models. The distribution of the electric field in tumors as …

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The Thomas Jefferson Fund 2018 Call for Proposals

The Thomas Jefferson Fund is now accepting applications! Deadline is March 12th, 2018 Created by the Embassy of France in the United States and the FACE Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Fund supports cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research that addresses the most pressing global challenges. Each …

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Two new Associate Teams and three renewed teams with California Universities – Update: A third project joins Inria@SiliconValley!

Inria is glad to announce the selection of 2 new Associate Teams with California partners (University of California, Irvine and the RAND Corporation ) as part of the 2018 Inria Associated Team call.  In addition, three teams that were created in 2015 (Meta&Co , formerly MetaMRI, GeomStats (both with Stanford University) and REALMS (with UC Berkeley) have …

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Interview: Christine Morin, Inria’s newly appointed Director of European and International Partnerships

The new head of the Department of European and International Partnerships (DPEI), appointed on 1 February, Christine Morin has worked at the Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique Research Centre since 1991. From 2010, she was head of the Myriads team (a joint project team between Inria, Université de Rennes 1, INSA Rennes, the CNRS and ENS Rennes …

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Focus on a joint research project: LEGO

  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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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 …

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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 …

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