Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

Rachid Deriche was awarded the 2013 French Academy of Sciences Grand Prize of the EADS Corporate Foundation in Computer Science. This award recognizes the achievement of a scientist in a French laboratory who has made exceptional contributions to the vitality and influence of computer-science research while building outstanding cooperation with industry. It has been officially awarded at the Institut de France on October 15th, 2013.

Demian Wassermann has been recruited as junior research scientist (CR2 Inria). He joined the Athena project-team by the end of Decembre 2013.

4 PhD students have been recruited : Brahim Belaoucha, Kai Dang, Rutger Fick and Marco Pizzolato.

2 PhD students defended their thesis at Nice Sophia Antipolis University : Sylvain Merlet (Sept. 11) and Anne-Charlotte Philippe (Dec. 19).

2 ANR projects have been accepted : ANR Mosifah and ANR Vibrations (see the dedicated part in this report).