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 …
Category: Research
Oct 13 2016
Focus on a joint research project: IT-SG-WN
IT-SG-WN (2011-2013) Wireless networks and information theory Principal Investigators: Dr. François Baccelli, TREC project-team, Inria Paris Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: The research is centered on the interplay between stochastic geometry and network information theory, with a particular emphasis on wireless networks. In terms of research, two main lines of thought are: …
Sep 13 2016
Nina Miolane and Ziran Zhang: Awardees of the 2016 Inria@SiliconValley Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Every year Inria@SiliconValley launches a call for Post-Doc Fellowships. After a tough competition, we are please to congratulate Nina Miolane and Ziran Zhang who have been selected. Nina Miolane will conduct her post-Doc within the GeomStats associate team between the ASCLEPIOS Inria Team (Sophia-Antipolis) and Susan Holmes’ team at Stanford University: “Geometric Hierarchical Model of the …
Sep 13 2016
Interview: Adrien Bousseau, Inria Sophia Antipolis, receives an ERC Starting Grant.
Adrien Bousseau is a researcher from the GRAPHDECO project team at Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée. He is also the French principal investigator of the Inria@SiliconValley associate team CRISP (Creating and rendering images based on the study of perception) with UC Berkeley. Specialist in digital imaging, Adrien received one of the three Eurographics best thesis prizes in 2011. …
Sep 09 2016
Fulbright Fellowships for French PhD students and Researchers: deadline is February 1st, 2017
. Fulbright Fellowships for PhD students and Researchers are now open for French candidates. Deadline for submission is February 1st, 2017. 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 …
Sep 09 2016
France Berkeley Fund & France-Stanford 2016 results: 2 involving Inria
The France-Berkeley Fund and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies published the list of their 2016 call laureates, of which 2 involving collaborations with Inria teams: Congratulations to the laureates! France Berkeley Fund 2016 awardees: SHRIMP: Smart Harbor Implementation: Steven Glaser, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley and Thomas Watteyne, EVA Inria Research Team, Inria Paris …
Sep 05 2016
Focus on a joint research project: HYPERION
HYPERION (2012-2014) Large-scale statistical learning for visual recognition Principal Investigators : Dr. Zaid Harchaoui, LE AR project-team, Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes Dr. Cordelia Schmid, LEAR project-team, Inria Grenoble Rhône Alpes Prof. Jitendra Malik, University of California Berkeley Prof. Noureddine El Karoui, University of California Berkeley Research objectives: A recent trend in computer vision as well as …
Aug 08 2016
Call for US-France projects ANR-NSF (PIRE)
ANR has joined up with the American National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund French teams jointly selected by France and the US under the NSF’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) call for proposals. The multidisciplinary PIRE programme backs American researchers in their commitments to global collaborations whose scientific excellence enables the combined promotion …
Jul 26 2016
Outcome Report from the US-Europe Invited Workshop on Next-Generation Internet of Things @USC
The USC Ming Hsieh Institute and Inria@SiliconValley organized a USEurope Invited Workshop on NextGeneration Internet of Things at Los Angeles on March 31April 1, 2016. The workshop was attended by about thirty leading researchers from academia, government labs, and industry from different US states and EU countries (France, Italy, Ireland, etc). Details of the workshop including the list …
Jul 26 2016
Interview: Chedy Raissi tells us about his experience at the Frontier Development Lab at NASA Ames and SETI Institute
Chedy Raissi received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Montpellier and the Ecole des Mines d’Alès in July 2008. He was part of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases Team (TaToo) in the Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics and Microelectonics of Montpellier (LIRMM) where he worked on topics such as data streams and sequential pattern mining. Chedy also worked at …