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Congratulations to Leo Ackermann, an Inria PhD student in the Genscale research team, who won the Best Poster Award at RECOMB 2026, the 30th annual international conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 26 to 29 May 2026. This award recognises the poster entitled “Subquadratic storage of pairwise distance matrices of large microbial collections” [..]

Congratulations to Lucas Roquet, recipient of the IEEE European Test Symposium 2026 PhD Forum Award! Lucas Roquet, a PhD student in the TARAN research team, has been awarded the IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS) 2026 PhD Forum Award for his work entitled "Dependability Evaluation and Enhancing Methods for Transformer Models", by par Lucas Roquet, Fernando Fernandes dos Santos et Angeliki [..]

Congratulations to Jean-Marc Jézéquel on being elected a member of the Academia Europaea. A professor at the Université de Rennes, President of Informatics Europe, recipient of the Silver Medal from the CNRS, former Director of IRISA, and member of the DIVERSE team, Jean-Marc Jézéquel is joining one of Europe’s most prestigious scholarly academies, which brings together internationally renowned [..]

The Rainbow research team has once again distinguished itself and has been awarded the prize for the best paper of 2025 by the IEEE Robotic Automation Society Technical Committee on Optimization for Robotics for its paper Sensitivity-Aware Model Predictive Control for Robots with Parametric Uncertainty, by Tommaso Belvedere (post doctorant CNRS, Rainbow), Marco Cognetti (Associate Professor at [..]

A découvrir : le dernier ouvrage de Pierre-Alain Fouque « Cryptographie post-quantique » Le dernier ouvrage de Pierre-Alain Fouque « Cryptographie post-quantique » un livre aux éditions Dunod, co-écrit avec Ludovic Perret (professeur à l'EPITA) et Pascal Lafourcade (professeur à l'Université Clermont Auvergne). Destiné aux étudiants, ingénieurs et chercheurs, cet ouvrage se veut à la fois [..]

Congratulations to Paul Temple, Associate Professor at the University of Rennes and researcher in the DIVERSE team, who received the Best Artifact Award at SEAMS 2026 for the paper entitled: “ Dynamic Agent Generation for Self-Adaptive Root Cause Analysis” co-authored with Brell Sanwouo (CRIStAL, Univ. Lille ) and Clément Quinton (CRIStAL, Univ. Lille). This work explores how dynamic, agent-based [..]

Congratulations to Adel Aly who won the Best Demo Award at the 29th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2026) for his work on musical score database querying. His demonstration, entitled "Where Graphs Meet Fuzzy Logic — A DBMS-Centered Engine for Polyphonic Music Matching in Score Databases", was co-authored with Oliver Pivert and Virginie Thion, all three of whom are [..]

Accompanied by a delegation from the Region and ANSSI, Prefect Franck Robine visited IRISA on Thursday 9 April 2026 to learn about the centre’s outstanding research and academic strengths in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. This immersion at the heart of the Breton ecosystem provided an opportunity to highlight the progress and projects led by the University of Rennes and its ecosystem [..]