Category: Research

Focus on a joint research project: ORESTE

ORESTE (2012-2017) Optimal reroute strategies for traffic management Principal Investigators:  Dr. Paola Goatin, ACUMES team, Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée Prof. Alexandre Bayen, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: The problem of road traffic, and its effects on pollution, time-consumption and their social and economical consequences, require an accurate policy and planning of road networks. The recent …

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Cordelia Schmid : Inria – French Académie des sciences Grand Prize

Cordelia Schmid, recognized as one of the worlds’ leading specialists in computer aided vision, heads up the Thoth project team at Inria’s Grenoble Rhône-Alpes research centre. Her research is dedicated to artificial vision, and more particularly the automatic interpretation of digital images and videos. She has made fundamental contributions in the field of representation of …

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Paola Goatin awarded “Femme en Or 2016” in the Smart City category

The 24th edition of the “Femme en Or” award was dedicated to Innovation, with two new categories this year: “Femme de Goût ” (Woman of Taste) promoting the “French art of life” and “Femme de la Smart City” (Smart City Woman) for those who introduce digital science in our cities. The “Femme de la Smart City” …

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Nina Miolane Awardee of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science

Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doc laureate Nina Miolane  is one of the thirty promising young researchers recognised by UNESCO and the L’Oréal Foundation in 2016. She has been awarded a “Women in Science” Fellowship for her virtual patient research in the category “Exploring the brain, a new world to conquer”.   The thirty laureates were chosen this year from …

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Focus on a joint research project: ITSNAP

ITSNAP (2009-2014) Intelligent techniques for structures of nucleic acids and proteins Principal Investigators:  Dr. Julie Bernauer, AMIB project-team, Inria Saclay Île-de-France Prof. Michael Levitt, Stanford University Dr Henry van den Bedem, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, SLAC Research objectives: RNA molecules are key biomolecules that are involved in a wide range of important biological processes for therapeutics …

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France-Stanford 2017 call is now open!

France-Stanford – 2017 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 …

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France Berkeley Fund 2017 call is now open!

France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 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 …

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Launch of the ERC-funded ONE project “One is Not Enough”: meeting with Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, researcher in the DECIbel Associate Team

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is member of EX-SITU, a joint LRI and Inria Saclay Île-de-France centre team, contributing to the Inria@SiliconValley associate team DECIbel with CITRIS Last spring Michel received an ERC Advanced Grant for his ONE project. The aim of the project is to fundamentally rethink the basic principles and the conceptual model of interactive systems, in order to enable …

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Collaborative project funding opportunities: France Berkeley Fund & France Stanford 2017 call

France-Berkeley Fund – 2017 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 …

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Mobility Funding opportunities: Chateaubriand STEM and Fulbright Fellowships

STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) 2016-2017 The STEM Chateaubriand Fellowship program targets outstanding Ph.D. students enrolled in an American university (U.S. citizenship is not required) who wish to conduct part of their doctoral research in a French laboratory for a 4 to 9 month period. The Office of Science and Technology and …

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