Professors worthy of note
Thesis prizes & Best Paper awards
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PhD students awarded
- Charles-Alban Deledalle receives the Thesis Prize in Signal, Image, Vision in June 2012, awarded by three French expert societies in signal processing, automatics and robotics (Club EEA, GdR ISIS, and GRETSI). His PhD thesis Image denoising beyond additive Gaussian noise. Patch-based estimators and their application to SAR imagery was directed by Florence Tupin (professor at Telecom ParisTech) and Loïc Denis (associate professor at Telecom Saint-Étienne).
- Tobias Ritschel, post-PhD student at the Signal & Images Processing department, received the Eurographics PhD Award for his thesis in graphics computing written at Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany.
- Julien Cornebise wrote his doctoral thesis in mathematics at the Doctoral School at UPMC, directed by Éric Moulines, Télécom ParisTech, and P. Deheuvels, UPMC, entitled Méthodes de Monte-Carlo Séquentielles Adaptatives. He received the Savage Award from NSF / BA, a very prestigious international award in the statistics and Bayesian methods community, in the "Theory" section.
- Nicolas Chenouard received the 2010 doctoral thesis award from the Société Française de Génie Biologique et Médical and EMBS “IEEE Section France” for his thesis: Advances in probabilistic particle tracking for biological imaging under the direction of Isabelle Bloch, professor at Télécom ParisTech, and Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin of the Institut Pasteur.
- Leyla Bilge-Yumer, doctoral student at EURECOM (Sophia Antipolis), received the 2011 Symantec graduate fellowship for her research in the detection of very advanced computer viruses, "botnets": article in WebTimeMedias Riviera, 8th March 2011. This is the first time this prize has been awarded to a European student! The selection process is very strict and only one or two people receive the award each year.
- Ruan He, doctoral student at CIFRE Orange Labs / Télécom ParisTech (directors: Marc Lacoste, Orange, and Jean Leneutre, Télécom ParisTech) obtained an honourable mention in the PhD/MSc Award by CONET (Cooperating Objects Network Of Excellence). His thesis, completed in November 2010, is entitled Security Architecture and Mechanisms for Self-protection of Pervasive Systems.
- Anthony Leverrier, presented by the Télécom ParisTech Information Processing and Communication Laboratory, is one of the 2010 winners of the Prix de Thèse ParisTech.(PhD Prize). He is a Télécom ParisTech doctor with the Quantum team at the School's Network and Computer Science department, under the direction of Gilles Zémor (Université de Bordeaux) and Philippe Grangier (CNRS and Institut d'Optique). His work is dedicated to the "Theoretical study of quantum distribution of continuous variable keys". The two other winners are Guillaume Druart (Institut d'Optique) and Guoshen Yu (Polytechnique). The finals on 17th November 2010, during which the doctors present their work, received nine finalists selected by the research directors at the ParisTech Schools. Previously, out of 550 theses defended in 2009 at ParisTech Schools, 50 passed an initial selection by the Schools. The ParisTech thesis award jury was chaired by Pierre-Étienne Bost, Executive Officer of Académie des Technologies.
- Alzennyr Gomes da Silva receives the Simon Régnier Thesis Prize
- Nancy Bertin receives the GdR-Isis/EEA/GRETSI Thesis Priz
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Best paper
- A. Mejri, G. Rekaya-Ben Othman & J-C. Belfiore are awarded a Best paper award in IEEE International conference on Communications and Networking (Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2012) for Lattice Decoding for the Compute-and-Forward Protocol.
- Carmelo Velardo and Jean-Luc Dugelay won a Best Student Research Demonstration Award for Real Time Extraction of Body Soft Biometric for Telemedicine during the GTTI Thematic Meeting on Multimedia Signal Processing 2012 at Courmayeur (Italy), March, 19-21.
- EI-DRR 2012 Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX (IS&T/SPIE 24th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, January 2012) Best Student Paper Award awarded to Olivier Morillot, Laurence Likforman-Sulem and Emmanuèle Grosicki for their paper entitled Construction of language models for an handwritten mail reading system. This prize is sponsored by Google.
- Wiem Taktak and Jean-Luc Dugelay received a Best Student Paper Award for the article Digital Image Forensics: A 2-step approach for identifying source and detecting forgeries during 2011 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, December 20-22, Sydney, Australia.
- Michael Lafaye (Phd student CIFRE Thales) and Laurent Pautet, professor at Telecom ParisTech, receive the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference held in Seattle, October 2011, for their paper Model Driven Early Exploration of IMA Execution Platform.
IEEE VTC2011 Best Student Paper Award awarded to the PhD student Quang Hien Chu and Jean-Christophe Cousin, professor at Telecom ParisTech, for their paper Experimental Characterization and Modeling of Shadow Fading Correlation for Relaying Systems, in IEEE- VTC2011-Fall conference (September 2011).- WISTP'11 Best Paper Award awards Houssem Maghrebi, PhD student at the Communications & Electronics department, Sylvain Guilley and Jean-Luc Danger, professors at the Communications & Electronics department at Telecom ParisTech, for their paper entitled Leakage Squeezing Countermeasure Against High-Order Attacks, during the workshop WISTP'11 "Security & Privacy of Mobile Devices in Wireless Communications".
- Juan Pablo de la Plata, Jérémie Anquez, Lazar Bibin, Tamy Boubekeur, Elsa Angelini and Isabelle Bloch, professors & associate professors at TSI department, received an honourable mention from Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine, for their paper entitled FEMONUM: A Framework for Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling from Ante-Natal Imaging Data.
- The Best Paper Prize at the ACCV 2010 conference (10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, November 2010, New Zealand) was granted to the paper Context based support vector machines for interconnected image annotation by Hichem Sahbi and Xi Li.
Hichem Sahbi is Research Associate at the CNRS and Xi Li is a post-doctoral student at the Signal and Image Processing department at Télécom ParisTech - IEEE-ICIP 2010 Best Student Paper Award granted to Charles-Alban Deledalle, Florence Tupin and Loïc Denis for their article Poison NL Means: Unsupervised Non Local Means for Poison Noise. Charles-Alban Deledalle is a doctoral student at the TSI department at Télécom ParisTech and Florence Tupin is a professor at the TSI department.
- Nicolas Widynski, doctoral candidate, receives the award for the best paper at the RFIA conference.
- Stefano Secci, doctoral candidate, receives the Best Paper Award at the 2009 NGI conference.
- Hany Kamal, doctoral candidate at the Computing and Networking department, received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE European Wireless 2009 conference for his paper "Optimal and Heuristic DSA Policies for Cellular Networks with Coordinated Access Band", co written with M. Coupechoux, Ph. Godlewski and J. M. Kelif (Orange Labs). The work was done as part of the URC project (SYSTEMATIC competitiveness cluster) in collaboration with Orange Labs.
- Fausto Gómez Agis and Cedric Ware receive the title “Letter of the Month” from Electronics Letters magazine
Professors awarded
- Éric Moulines winner of the 2011 Grand Prix France Télécom awarded by the Académie des Sciences.
- Michèle Wigger, “Information Processing and Communication” Laboratory (CNRS - Télécom ParisTech), was one of the winners of the 2011 “Emergence(s)” programme run by the Ville de Paris for the project “Pushing the Performance Limits of Wireless Networks by Exploiting Side-Channels”.
- Alain Sibille has been nominated French delegate of the european cooperation Action COST IC 1004 "Cooperative Radio Communications for Green Smart Environments" (2011-2015) and he has been elected at the steering committee where he will coordinate the "topical working groups" activities.
- Elmar Eisemann, associate professor at Signal & Images Processing department (TSI), received the Eurographics Young Researcher Award.
- Juan Pablo de la Plata, Jérémie Anquez, Lazar Bibin, Tamy Boubekeur, Elsa Angelini and Isabelle Bloch, professors & associate professors at TSI department, received an honourable mention from Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine, for their paper entitled FEMONUM: A Framework for Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling from Ante-Natal Imaging Data.
- Professor in the mobile communications department at Eurecom (Sophia Antipolis), Petros Elia received the "Distinguished Achievement Award” from the Newcom++ network of excellence. WebTimeMedias Riviera, 1st March 2011
- Frédéric Dufaux was awarded twice by ISO for his top contributions to JPEG 2000 Wireless - JPWL (ISO/IEC 15444-11) and JPSearch (ISO/IEC 24800).
- Éric Moulines, professor at Institut Télécom / Télécom ParisTech, received the 2010 Silver Medal from the CNRS. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1981), Télécom ParisTech (1986) and is an Ingénieur Général du corps interministériel des Mines.
Mathematician and signal processor, Eric Moulines’s career has been with CNET then Télécom ParisTech. He was recognised by the Institut des sciences informatiques et de leurs interactions (INS2I) for the originality, quality and importance of his work in the area of stochastic learning and probability methods applied to signal processing. - Hervé Chabanne, associate professor, receives the Sésames trophy at the Cards & Identification trade show.
- An ANR chair of excellence for Aslan Tchamkerten.
- The Médaille Blondel awarded to Isabelle Bloch.
- Jean-Claude Belfiore, professor at the COMELEC department, receives the Médaille Blondel.
- Ghaya Rekaya, professor at the COMELEC department, receives the Prix de la Ville de Paris for a young Parisian scientist.
