2009 Prizes
Eitan Altman : Best article - IFIP Wireless Days 2009
Amar Prakash Azad, Sara Alouf , Eitan Altman (équipe-projet MAESTRO) Vivek Borkar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, IN), Georgios S. Paschos (CERTH - ITI, Center for Research and Technology, Greece. GR) received the prize of the best paper "Vacation Policy Optimization with Application to IEEE 802.16e Power Saving Mechanism", during the IFIP Wireless Days 2009 - 15-17 December 2009 - Paris.
Quentin Mérigot received the best paper award at GDSPM'09 for his article signed jointly by Marks Ovsjanikov and Leonidas Guibas from Stanford University: "Robust Voronoï-Based Curvature and Feature Estimation".
Stéphane Cotin (project-team ALCOVE): Young Scientist Awards - MICCAI 2009
Stéphane Cotin, Yiyi Wei, Le Fang, Jérémie Allard, Chunhong Pan, Songde Ma received the prize of the best article in the category "Computer-assisted intervention : Simulation and robotics" for their article : Toward Real-Time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolizationat the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) - september 22 -24, 2009 - London.
Maxime Descoteaux received the " prize Erbsmann " of the best article, signed jointly by Rachid Deriche, C. Poupon, J.F. Mangin and D. Bihan (NEUROSPIN, SACLAY CEA) during the 21st Biennial International Conference one Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI ' 09) 5 10 in July, 2009 in the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, (USA).
Ignasi Sau Valls , Z. Li are prize-winners of " Best student award paper " at the conference "35th International Workshop one Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science" (WG 2009) - 24-26 June 2009 - Montpellier, France) for the article: " Graph Partitioning and Traffic Grooming with Bounded Degree Request Graph ".
Rached Abdelkhalek, Henri Calandra, Olivier Coulaud, Jean Roman, and Guillaume Latu (team HIEPACS) : "Best Paper Award" - HPCS 2009
Rached Abdelkhalek, Henri Calandra, Olivier Coulaud, Jean Roman, and Guillaume Latu (team HIEPACS) received the "Best paper award" at the conférence "High Performance
Computing and Simulation 2009" (June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig)
with their article “Fast Seismic Modeling and Reverse Time
Migration on a GPU Cluster”.
Julian Monteiro (project-team MASCOTTE) has acquired the Best Paper Award at conference ALGOTEL which took place from 16 to 19 June 2009 in Marseille.
Patrick Loiseau, Romaric Guillier, Oana Goga, Matthieu
Imbert, Paulo Goncalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (project-team RESO) were rewarded for the best student Demo Award entitled "Automated Traffic Measurements and Analysis in Grid5000" during the international conference Sigmetrics / Performance 2009 in Seattle.
Bruno Levy: Special prize of jury in "Trophées du Libre"
Bruno Levy (Project-Team ALICE) acquired the special prize of jury for software Graphite, a platform for research in modelling 3D and picture of synthesis, and the 3rd price in the category "sciences " in "Trophées du Libre".
François Sillon (project-team ARTIS) received the Eurographics Award 2009 during the conference Eurographics 2009 for its jobs on pictures of synthesis.
The EATCS (European Association of Theoretical Computer Science) Award 2009 is awarded to Gerard Huet in recognition of the excellent research contributions to theoretical computer science produced throughout his outstanding scientific career.
Patrick Meumeu (project team AOSTE), received the "Best Paper Award" for his article entitled "Improving the Sensitivity of Deadlines with a Specific Asynchronous Scenario for Harmonic Periodic Tasks scheduled by FP" co-wrinting with Yves Sorel and Daniel de Rauglaudre (project team AOSTE) and Laurent George (ECE) during the ICONS 2009 conference, The Fourth International Conference on Systems (Cancun, Mexico, march 1-6, 2009).
The book Springer Handbook of Robotics received two prices of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards), The first one in "Physical Sciences & Mathematics", and the second one in Engineering & Technology. Six researchers from INRIA participated in this work (B. Espiau, Fr. Chaumette, JP Merlet, P. Morin, C. Samson, Mr Parent) who's refers in the field of robotics.
Pierrick Gaudry (project-team CACAO): "Scientific price of the university Henri Poincaré"
Pierrick Gaudry (project-team CACAO) received the scientific price of the university Henry Poincaré, computer mention for its jobs on the cryptologie with public key using the elliptical and hyperelliptical curves, and particularly on the problem of discreet logarithm, counting of point and law of efficient group in groups linked to these curves.
Luc Bouganim (project-team SMIS) in collaboration with Bjorn Tor Jonsson (Reykjavik University) and Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen) received the best paper award during the conference CIDR 2009 - Pacific Grove, Californie, for his article entitled "uFLIP: Understanding Flash IO Patterns". (January, 4-7, 2009). More...
Thesis Prizes
Fabien Lotte, former doctorant in Bunraku project-team, in post-doc at Singapour obtained AFRIF thesis prize for his thesis entitled "Study of Electroencephalographic Signal Processing and Classification Techniques towards the use of Brain-Computer Interfaces in Virtual Reality Applications" (December 4, 2008).
Jonathan Boisvert (project-team ASCLEPIOS): Prize of thesis in joint guardianship 2009
Jonathan Boisvert is a prize-winner of the Prize of thesis in joint guardianship 2009. Its thesis, led in collaboration between the project ASCLEPIOS, the University of Montreal, and the Saint - Justine de Montreal hospital concerned the construction, from the medical images, from the geometrical and statistical models of the scoliosis at the child. The thesis was co-managed by N. Ayache and X. Pennec (project-team ASCLEPIOS), and F. Cheriet( University of Montreal).
Jonathan Touboul (project team NEUROMATHCOMP),which supported its thesis of mathematics to the Ecole polytechnique 23 decembre on 2008, has just received one of 10 prizes of theses awarded by the Doctoral Schools for all the disciplines.
Matthieu Chavent (project-team ORPAILLEUR) obtained the GGMM thesis prize (GGMM) for his thesis in the fields of Protein-Protein interactions and Molecular surface visualization (May, 5-7, 2009 - Mittelwihr, Alsace).
Dizan
Vasquez, (project-team E-MOTION)
: Georges Giralt/EURON thesis prize
Dizan
Vasquez, (project-team E-MOTION) received the Georges Giralt/EURON prize which rewards the best European thesis in the field of robotics.
Pierre Fillard (project-team ASCLEPIOS) received a prize "special mention" for his thessis "Riemannian Processing of Tensors for Diffusion MRI and Computational Anatomy of the Brain" during the "journées RITS" (March, 18-20, 2009 - Lille).
Sébastien Paris (project-team BUNRAKU)
: Thesis prize of the "Fondation Métivier"
Sébastien Paris (équipe-projet BUNRAKU) obtained the thesis prize of the "Fondation Métivier" during the general assembly of the pole Images and networks (Marc, 30, 2009).
Pierrick Coupé (project-team VISAGES) received the prize of the best thesis (innovation prize) from the Section France of IEEE - Chapter EMBS - SFGBM - and AGBM.
Scientific titles
Members of the Academy of Sciences
Serge Abiteboul, Research Director at INRIA,
elected member (December 2008).
Olivier
Faugeras, elected
member of the restricted Committee of the Academy of Sciences (January
2007).
François Baccelli, Research Director at INRIA,
elected member (November 2005).
Olivier Faugeras, Research Director at INRIA, elected
member (November 1998).
Gilles Kahn, Scientific Director of INRIA, elected
member (November 1997).
Pierre-Louis Lions, Chairman of the Evaluation Committee
and advisor to INRIA's Chairman., elected member (October 1994).
Philippe Flajolet, head of project Algo and Chairman
of the Project Committee (INRIA Rocquencourt), elected associate member
(June 1994).
Gérard Huet, in charge of international relations
for INRIA, elected associate member (March 1990).
Maurice Nivat, scientific advisor at INRIA, elected
associate member (April 1983).
Olivier Pironneau, in charge of prospects at INRIA,
elected associate member (April 1997).
Members of the Academia Europæa
Gérard Berry, Research Director at the École
des mines de Paris and member of project Meije (a joint project
of INRIA Sophia Antipolis and the Applied Mathematics Center of
the École
des mines de Paris at Sophia).
Philippe Flajolet, head of project-team ALGO and Chairman
of the Project Committee (INRIA Rocquencourt).
Gérard Huet, in charge of international relations
for INRIA.
Gilles Kahn, Scientific Director of INRIA.
Members of the Institut Universitaire de France
Benoît
Perthame, head of project-team BANG (a
joint project-team with ENS) and Professor at the University of Paris
6, appointed senior member (December 2006).
Yves Robert,
old head of project-team ReMaP, member of project-team GRAAL (a
joint project of INRIA Rhône-Alpes and LIP, CNRS and ENS Lyon laboratory),
Professor at the ENS Lyon and junior member, appointed senior member
(December 2006).
Denis
Caromel, professeur à l'Université de
Nice-Sophia-Antipolis et membre du projet OASIS,
projet commun avec le laboratoire CNRS I3S et l'Université de
Nice Sophia Antipolis , nommé membre junior (Septembre 2001).
Marie-Paule Cani, Professor at INPG and member
of project-team IMAGIS, a joint project-team with CNRS, INPG and UJF, appointed
junior member. (August 1999)
Jean-Paul Haton, head of project-team SYCO (a joint
project-team of INRIA Lorraine, CNRS, INPL, Henri Poincaré-Nancy
1 and Nancy 2 Universities) and Professor at the Nancy University,
appointed senior member (1997).
Dominique Méry, CNRS researcher at Loria,
appointed junior member (1995).
Étienne Pardoux, member of project-team Sysdys
(a joint project-team of INRIA Sophia Antipolis and LATP) and Professor
at the University of Provence, appointed junior member.
Members of other organizations
Monique Teillaud (project-team GEOMETRICA)
has been appointed member editorial board of journal CGTA (Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications).
Josiane
Zerubia (project-team ARIANA)
has been renewed for 3 years member of the Evaluation Committee of
Research and Technology of the CNES.
Laurent Romary, adviser to the Research Department for linguistic computer science and scientific and technical information, has been appointed as the chairman of the scientific board of TEI (Text Encoding Intitiative) - January 2008.
Olivier Faugeras (project-team ODYSSEE) was elected Delegate of the "Section des Sciences Mécaniques et Informatiques of the Academia Europæa (September 2007).
Pierre Kornprobst (project-team ODYSSEE) has been appointed member of the scientifiqueue Council of the "Pôle de Recherche Scientifique et Technique" (PRST) intitled "Modélisation, Informations et Systèmes Numériques (MISN)" (September 2007).
Bernard Lang, Research Director (project-team ATOLL)
has been appointed as representative of the open source software. More...
Andrew Zisserman, member of project-team WILLOW,
professor at the University of Oxford and with a EADS/ENS chair,
has been elected at the Royal
Society.
Rose
Dieng-Kuntz (project-team ACACIA)
has been appointed member of the Scientifique Council of the
"Fondation pour la Culture Scientifique et Technique", called Fondation
C. Genial
Olivier
Faugeras (project-team ODYSSEE)
was made Doctor Honoris Causa at the Karlsruhe University, IT Department.
(February 2007).
Sabine
Moisan (project-team ORION)
was appointed member of the scientific committee (The Department of
Applied Mathematics and Informatics of INRA.
David Guiraud (project-team DEMAR),
was elected deputy chairman of the scientific board of LIRMM.
Laurent
Kott,
in charge of Competitive Clusters at INRIA, and Bernard Larrouturou,
former Chairman and CEO of INRIA, appointed members at the Strategic
Advisory Board on Information Technologies on July 19, 2006.
Nozha
Boujemaa (project-team IMEDIA)
was appointed French expert in the committee ICT (Information
and Communication Technologies) of the COST (European
Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research)
on May 22, 2006.
Denis
Talay (project-team OMEGA)
was appointed as SMAI's new
Chairman (French Applied Math. Society) on
June 8, 2006.
Rose Dieng-Kuntz (project-team ACACIA)
was appointed for 3 years by the Ministry of Research in the committee
for the work equality between
women and men in the higher education and the research on January
6, 2006.
Laurent
Busé (project-team GALAAD)
was elected to Board of Directors
of the "Société de Mathématiques de France"
(SMF).
Serge
Piperno (project-team CAIMAN)
appointed Director of Cermics (Mathematics,
computer science and scientific computing teaching and research centre,
ENPC laboratory) and will join ENPC (Champs/Marne)
on September 2005.
Monique
Thonnat (project-team ORION)
appointed Chairwoman of Industrial Liaison Committee by Walter Kropatsch,
Head of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.
Josiane
Zerubia (project-team ARIANA)
has been appointed for 3 years member of the Evaluation Committee of
Research and Technology of the CNES.
Nicholas
Ayache (project-team EPIDAURE,)
has been appointed Scientific Advisor of the Institute of Advanced
Engineering in Hong-Kong working with Chinese University, focusing
on R&D in two selected major
areas, namely biomedical engineering and multimedia.
Gilles Kahn,
Chairman and CEO of INRIA, appointed member at the Strategic Advisory
Board on Information Technologies and member of
Scientific Council of defense.
Nicholas
Ayache appointed member at the High Council
for the Research and for the Scientific and Technological Cooperation
between France and Israel,
council co-headed by Gilles Kahn (2004).
Marc Berthod,
Director of the Sophia Antipolis research unit, elected President of
the association for the development of
the
Nice-Sophia Antipolis university center (Persan) in March 1998.
Jean-Claude Le Moal, head of the Publishing and
Information Diffusion Department of the Scientific Information and
Communication
Service of INRIA, appointed member of the High Council of Libraries
(1997).
Jean-Pierre Verjus,
Professor at the Institut national
polytechnique de Grenoble and Director of the Rhône-Alpes
research unit, appointed at the High Council for Research and Technology
(CSRT) as representative of the technical and scientific communities
and of the various sectors of research (1997).
Jean-Pierre
Verjus, also made Doctor Honoris Causa
of the Montréal University (October 1996).
Distinctions 2009 - 2010
Christine Azevedo-Coste (project-team DEMAR) was elected member of "board of directors" de "l'International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society"
Nicholas Ayache and Xavier Pennec (project-team ASCLEPIOS) are part of the editorial board of SIAM journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) as "Associate Editors" since first january 2010.
Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau (project-team REO) is Chief Editor of the journal ESAIM Proceedings.
Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau (project-team REO) is member of the editorial board of the journal Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (M2AN)
Christian Retoré (project-team SIGNES
)
is named in the editorial board of the review "Gazette des mathématiciens" (French Mathematical Society).
Marie-Paule
Cani (project-team EVASION) is
named "Director
at Large" of ACM SIGGRAPH. More...
Denis
TALAY (project-team TOSCA) is
named chief associate editor of the new journal "MathematicS
In Action" (2008).
Olivier Festor (project-team MADYNES)
is named vice-chairman of IFIP (International
Federation for Information Processing - WG 6.6 Management
of Networks and Distributed Systems).
Nicholas Ayache (project-team ASCLEPIOS)
is elected member of the College of Fellows’ Class of 2008 of AIMBE (American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering).
Josiane
Zerubia (project-team ARIANA)
is
named officiellement "Associate
Editor - European Space Organizations and Industries, Space Signal
and Image Processing" of the e-magazine Earthzine.
Philippe
Nain (Project-team MAESTRO) is
named Chief Editor of the Performance Evaluation Review. He is also elected in the
executive committee of the ACM
Sigmetrics.
Denis
Talay (project-team OMEGA)
is named Associate Editor of Journal
Scientific Computing.
David Simplot-Ryl (project-team POPS)
is named director of publication of the review Ad
Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: An International Journal (AHSWN)
(Old City Publishing).He is also member of the editorial
board of the review International
Journal of Computers and Applications (IJCA)
(ACTA Press), of the review International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
(IJWMC) (Inderscience) and of
the review International
Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS)
(Taylor & Francis).
Pierre
Boulet (projec-team DART)
was appointed secretary to the association Electronic Chips & Systems design
Initiative (ECSI) - June 7, 2006.
Frédéric
Bonnans (project-team SYDOCO)
is named member of the Council at Large (4 members) of the Mathematical Programming
Society during 2006-2009.
Rose Dieng-Kuntz (project-team ACACIA)
is named in the editorial board of the Revue
de l'Intelligence Artificielle (Review of Artificial Intelligence).
Gilles
Celeux (team SELECT)
is named Chief Editor of Statistics
and Computing.
Philippe
Nain (project-team MAESTRO)
has been named Associate Editor of "IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking".
Jean-Pierre
Merlet (project-team COPRIN)
has been named Associate Editor of the scientic journal "Mechanism
and Machine Theory".
Patrick
Rives (project-team ICARE)
is named Associate Editor of the review IEEE
ITRO (Int. Transactions on RObotics).
Jérôme
Chailloux, old senior research scientist at INRIA, has
just been named ERCIM Manager. The ERCIM consortium is co-founded by
INRIA and houses W3C Europe.
The ERCIM Office and W3C Europe are located at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
Research Unit.
Gilles Grimaud,
project-team POPS,
(best PhD thesis by ASF in 2001),
is named
Vice-President of the French ACM
SigOps chapter.
Chadi
Barakat (project-team PLANETE)
is named Area Editor for ACM
Computer Communication Review and guest
editor for a JSAC special issue on Sampling the Internet: Techniques
and Applications.
Christian
Rétoré,
project-team SIGNES, is named
Chief Editor of the international review "Traitement Automatique
des Langues" (with Sylvain Kahane and Pierre Zweigenbaum), published
by Lavoisier.
Paul-Louis George, project-team GAMMA,
is member of writting committee of the International
Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, review published
by John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd.
