ACM, « Association for Computing Machinery » the world's largest computer science society, announced on May 11 the winners of four prestigious awards. These leaders were selected by their peers for making contributions to groundbreaking research and practical applications that impact people using technology every day. Among these 4 prestigious awards, the ACM Software System 2021 Award recognizes [..]
Awards & nominations

Congratulations to Sandrine Blazy, winner of the ACM Software System Award

Congratulations to Christine Guillemot who received the insignia of Officer of the Légion d'honneur
Christine Guillemot, Inria research director and head of the Sirocco research team, was awarded the Légion d'honneur on 22 April. In 2010, Christine Guillemot received the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. On 1 January 2021, she was promoted to the rank of officer. On 21 April 2022, she received the insignia of Officer of the Legion of Honour from Michel Cosnard (former CEO of Inria) [..]

Congratulations to Rebecca Fribourg, who receives the Gilles Kahn Thesis Award for her thesis at IRISA
Congratulations to Rebecca Fribourg, who receives the Gilles Kahn Thesis Award for her thesis at IRISA "Contribution of the study of factors influencing the sense of embodiment towards avatars in virtual reality Rebecca Fribourg was a PhD student at IRISA in the Hybrid and Mimetic team. Since September 2021, Rebecca is an associate professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, in the laboratory AAU [..]

Louis Couturat National Logic Prize
Congratulations to Guillaume Aucher (Associate Professor Université de Rennes 1) who was awarded the Louis Couturat National Logic Prize 2021 for his paper "On the Universality of Atomic and Molecular Logics via Protologics". His paper will be published in the journal Logica Universalis. Guillaume Aucher will participate in the next UNILOG conference to be held in Crete in April 2022. During this [..]

Congratulations to François Torregrossa, who received the Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations to François Torregrossa, PhD student in the LinkMedia research team, who received the Best Student Paper Award at the WI-IAT 2021* conference for his work entitled "Unsupervised Tree Extraction in Embedding Spaces for Taxonomy Induction". François Torregrossa completed his thesis in collaboration with SoLocal, within the LinkMedia research team. *The 2021 IEEE/WIC/ACM International [..]

Congratulations to Ruituraj Singh, who received the thesis award at the BDA conference
Congratulations to Ruituraj Singh On October 28th 2021, Ruituraj Singh, PhD student at IRISA from 2018 to 2021, received the BDA conference* thesis prize for his work entitled "Data Centric Workflows for Crowdsourcing Application". Rituraj Singh completed his PhD in the DRUID and SUMO teams, under the supervision of Zoltan Miklos and Loïc Hélouët. Rituraj Singh's thesis has developped techniques [..]

Best Research Paper Award at ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference 2021
Congratulations to Hugo Martin (PhD student Université de Rennes 1), Mathieu Acher (Associate Professor Université de Rennes 1), Juliana Alves Pereira (Post doctoral student Université de Rennes 1) and Jean-Marc Jezequel (Professor Université de Rennes 1) of the research team DIVERSE for their Best Research Paper Award at the SPLC 2021, ACM International Systems and Software Product Line [..]

Your work is about Music and Science? You have 8 days left to apply
The Journée Science et Musique (science and music day) rewards each year a young researcher whose work is related to the theme of Science and Music. If your subject deals with computer science, signal processing, acoustics, psychoacoustics, musical interfaces, sound design, musicology, etc...don't hesitate to apply! There is still time to try your luck, and to submit your application before [..]