Scientific achievements

• Awards
• Conferences
• Best Papers
• Appointments

Awards

• The European Research Council (ERC) awarded grants to seven researchers in Inria project teams, recognising the scientific excellence of their exploratory research:
  • Stanley Durrleman was awarded an ERC Starting Grant.
  • Sylvain Lefebvre, Jan Ramon and Stéphane Redon were awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant.
  • Rachid Deriche and Christine Guillemot were awarded an ERC Advanced Grant.
  • Karthik Bhargavan was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant.

• The Belgian Royal Academy awarded the Agathon de Potter Prize for mathematics to Antoine Gloria of the Mephysto research team.

• The French Academy of Sciences awarded the Michel Monpetit Prize [FR] to Christine Paulin-Mohring of the Toccata project team.

• The Inria – Academy of Sciences 2015 Prizes were awarded to three researchers for their significant contributions to computer science and the development of a number of innovations with a great potential for the enrichment of the whole society:
  • Véronique Cortier, CNRS Research Director in the Cassis research team, was awarded the Inria – Academy of Sciences Young Researcher Prize.
  • Marc Lavielle, Inria Research Director in the Popix research team, was awarded the Inria – Academy of Sciences – Dassault Systems Prize.
  • Benoît Perthame, a professor at the UPMC – Paris VI, was awarded the Inria – Academy of Sciences Grand Prix Prize.

• Florence Forbes, of the Mistis research team, and Radu Patrice Horaud, of the Perception research team, were jointly awarded a grant from the Xerox Foundation University Affairs Committee for their work on advanced signal processing techniques applied to graphs.

• Ana Busic and Sean Meyn, of the Dyogene research team, were jointly awarded a Google Faculty Research Award for their work on “Distributed control for renewable integration in smart communities”.

• Michel Beaudoin-Lafon of the Ex-situ research team, received an ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award which is awarded to those who have contributed to the development and success of SIGCHI and the community.

• Marc Lavielle, of the Popix research team, was awarded the International Society of Pharmacometrics Innovation Award.

• Jérôme Jaffré, of the Serena research team, was awarded the SIAM Geosciences Senior Career Prize.

• The Prosecco research team won the Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography for their miTLS software.

• The jury of the EDUCNUM Operation Private Life Competition [FR] organised by the French Data Protection Commission (CNIL) awarded their special prize to Nolwenn Maudet of the Ex-situ research team for the Data Fiction project that she led jointly with Thomas Thibault.

• The algorithm developed by Lucas Royer (under the joint supervision of A. Krupa, M. Marchal and G. Dardenne of the Hybrid and Lagadic research teams) won the MICCAI Challenge for echographic hepatic monitoring.

• Jeremy Boy, of the Aviz research team, won the World Statistics Day 2015 Data Visualisation Competition with his online platform, “Is the world a better place today?”.

• Jonathan Grizou, a PhD student in the Flowers research team, was awarded the Le Monde Prize for University Research 2015.

• The Nuukik team won the Best Data Analysis Trophy at the Night of Connected Business event for their seasonal recommendations project.

• The HeadsUp! and MicroPnP projects won prizes in the IPSO Challenge competition for their work on the possibilities opened up by the IP protocols and open standards in the development of the Internet of Objects.

• Pierre Michaud, of the Alf research team, won the second Data Pre-fetching Championship at ISCA 2015.

• Cordelia Schmid, of the Lear research team, was awarded the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation Humbolt Research Award for her work on visual recognition by computer.

• Olivier Faugeras, of the Mathneuro research team, was awarded the Okawa Foundation Prize for his “pioneering contributions for computer vision and for computational neuroscience”.

• The first Dirk Bartz Prize for medical computer simulation was presented to seven pioneering researchers working on the development of medical simulators based on the Sofa software at the Eurographics 2015 conference. The seven winners were:
  • Stéphane Cotin, Nazim Haouchine, Igor Peterlik and Hugo Talbot, of the Mimesis research team,
  • Jérémie Dequidt and Christian Duriez, of the Defrost research team, and
  • Hervé Delingette, of the Asclepios research team.

• Clémentine Prieur, of the Airsea research team, was awarded the Gamni-Smai Blaise Pascal Prize by the Academy of Sciences for her cross-disciplinary work.

• Annabelle Collin, of the Reo research team, was awarded the 2015 Gamni-Smai Prize for her thesis, “Asymptotic analysis in cardiac electrophysiology. Applications in modelling and in data assimilation”.

• Clément Maria, of the Geometrica research team, was awarded the 2015 Gilles Kahn Thesis Prize by the SIF under the sponsorship of the Academy of Sciences for his thesis “Algorithms and Data Structures in Computational Topology”.

• The thesis by Jean-Guillaume Fages, of the Tasc research team, on the use of graph structures in constraint programming won the French Artificial Intelligence Association thesis prize, together with their doctoral research prize for constraint programming.

• Jeremy Boy and Samuel Huron, PhD students in the Aviz research team, were awarded the IEEE VGTC VPG Doctoral Dissertation Award 2015, for their theses, with first prize going to Samuel Huron and an honourable mention for Jeremy Boy.

Conferences

• Erwan Faou, of the Ipso research team, was awarded the 2015 Germund Dahlquist Prize at the international Scientific Computation and Differential Equations 2015 conference in Potsdam, Germany.

• Louis Mandel and Marc Pouzet, of the Parkas research team, were awarded the Most Influential PPDP’05 Paper Award at the PPDP 2015 conference in Sienna, Italy, for their paper, “ReactiveML: A reactive extension to ML”.

Best Papers

• Alan Schmitt, of the Celtique research team, was awarded the Most Influential POPL Paper Award 2015 for his paper “Combinators for bidirectional tree transformations: A linguistic approach to the view-update problem”, published in 2005.

• Luc Segoufin and Victor Vianu, of the Dahu research team, were awarded the 2015 ACM Alberto O. Mendelzon Test of Time Prize for their paper, “Views and queries: Determinacy and rewriting”, published in 2005 by the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS).

• The paper, “Global vs. local search on multi-objective NK-landscapes: Contrasting the impact of problem features”, co-authored by Arnaud Liefooghe, of the Dolphin research team, was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the ECOM track of the GECCO 2015 conference.

• The prize for the Best Paper on Genetic Programming at GECCO 2015 was awarded to Robyn Ffrancon and Marc Schoenauer, of the Tao research team, for their paper on “Memetic Semantic Genetic Programming”.

• The Prosecco research team won the Best Paper Award at WOOT 2015 for their paper, “FlexTLS: A tool for testing TLS implementations”, the Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research at BlackHat 2015 for “Weak Diffie-Hellman and the Logjam Attack”, and the Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE S&P 2015 for “A messy state of the union: Taming the composite state machines of TLS”.

• A paper on the Kermata metalanguage, “Weaving executability into object-oriented metalanguages”, written by Jean-Marc Jézéquel, of the Diverse research team jointly with Franck Fleurey and Pierre-Alain Muller of IRISA, was awarded the prize for the most influential paper of the last decade at Model 15.

• Christian Grothoff, of the Decentralise research team, was awarded the OOPSLA Most Influential Paper Award [FR] for his paper, “X10: An object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing (DOI)”, presented at the OOPSLA conference ten years ago and considered to have had the greatest influence over the past decade.

• Damien Stehlé, of the Aric research team, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the Eurocrypt 2015 conference.

• Jan Gmys, of the Dolphin research team, won the Best Paper Award for his PhD thesis at the international PPAM 2015 conference on parallelism and applied mathematics.

Appointments

• Nikos Paragios, of the Galen research team, has been appointed a senior member of the French University Institute (IUF) in mathematics.

• Xavier Leroy, of the Gallium research team, has been appointed a Fellow of the American learned society ACM in recognition of his decisive work on the reliability and security of programming languages and compilers.

• Marie-Paule Cani, of the Imagine research team, has been appointed to the Chair of Computing and Computer Science of the Collège de France for the year 2015. She led a series of conferences entitled, “Realising the imaginary: From 3D digital models to animated virtual worlds”.

• Jean-Pierre Merlet, of the Hephaistos research team, has been appointed an IEEE Fellow.

• Carlos Canudas de Wit, of the Necs research team, has been appointed an IEEE Fellow for his work on the control of systems.

• David Simplot-Ryl, Director of the Inria Lille – Nord Europe research Centre, has been awarded the Kuhlmann Prize.