Télécom Paris PhD Thesis Awards

1^st prize : Céline Comte, « Resource management in computer clusters : algorithm design and performance analysis » (supervised by Thomas Bonald and Fabien Mathieu)

2^nd prize : Mathurin Massias, « Sparse high dimensional regression in the presence of colored heteroscedastic noise: application to M/EEG source imaging » (supervised by Joseph Salmon and Alexandre Gramfort)

3^rd prize : Quentin Gilliotte, « The experience of cultural goods in digital era » (supervised by Dominique Pasquier and Jean-Samuel Beuscart)

In addition, we hail the quality of four other nominees whom the jury, with regret, was unable to select as prizewinners:

• Martin Cordier, « Entanglement and photon pair generation in hollow-core fiber » (supervised by Isabelle Zaquine, Philippe Delaye, and Eleni Diamanti)
• Alexandre Garcia, « Prediction of Structured opinion outputs: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects » (supervised by Florence d’Alché-Buc, Chloé Clavel, and Slim Essid)
• Gourab Ghatak, « Millimeter Wave Multi-RAT Small Cells for Heterogeneous Mobile Services: Performance Analysis and Optimization » (supervised by Marceau Coupechoux and Antonio De Domenico)
• Olivier Spitz, « Higly coherent quantum cascade lasers for mid-infrared applications » (supervised by Frédéric Grillot and Mathieu Carras)

On 29 March 2019, following the Doctoral Graduation Ceremony, Télécom Paris presented its thesis awards in order to distinguish three innovative doctors:

• 1st prize : Wanyu Liu, Information theory as an unified toom to understand and design human-computer interaction  (supervisors Olivier Rioul, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Yves Guiard).

• 2nd prize : Danilo Cicalese, Anycast nowadays (supervisor Dario Rossi, chair @NewNetParis)

• 3e prix : Antoine Houdard, Statistical Modeling of the Patches DC Component for Low-Frequency Noise Reduction (supervisor : Andrés Almansa et Julie Delon)

2018 Awards

On 23 March 2018, following the PhD Graduation Ceremony, Télécom Paris presented its PhD thesis awards in recognition of three innovative PhD students out of ten candidates:

• 1^st place Grigor Antipov (Eurecom): Deep Learning for Semantic Description of Visual Human Traits

• 2^nd place El Mehdi Amhoud: Coding Techniques for Space Division Multiplexed Optical Fiber Systems

• 3^rd place Jingjing Zhang (Eurecom): The Interplay Between Caching, Feedback and Topology in the Wireless Broadcast Channel

It was a difficult choice for the jury, chaired by Karine Gosse (Dassault Systèmes), since the three pitches were outstanding!

2017 Awards

• 1^st place awarded to Antoine Amarilli: Leveraging the Structure of Uncertain Data – Watch video

• 2^nd place awarded to Flora Weissgerber: Processing of Multi-Mode Multi-Resolution SAR images for the Characterization of Urban Environments – Watch video

• 3^rd place awarded to Samuel Goëta: Instantiate data, instantiate an audience, a sociological inquiry into open data– Watch video

2016 Awards

• 1^st place awarded to Annelie Heuser for her thesis, Distinguishing Distinguishers: A Theoretical Approach to Side-Channel Analysis – Watch video

• 2^nd place awarded to Martina Cardone, a Eurecom PhD student, for her thesis Cooperative Techniques Applied to Future Cellular Networks – Watch video

• 3^rd place awarded to Jeremy Boy for his thesis, Engaging Citizens to Go Beyond Simple Visualizations of Open Data – Watch video