Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• Xavier Pennec received an ERC advanced grant on geometric statistics for life sciences.

• Shuman Jia ranked 2nd in the AI Data Challenge organized by the French Society of Radiology.

• Shuman Jia earned 2nd prize at the Pierre Lafitte PhD competition.

• Fanny Orlhac was awarded for the L’Oréal-UNESCO grant for women in science 2018.

• Wen Wei received a travel award at the MICCAI conference.

• Wen Wei received a travel award from the SFRMBM (french society of magnetic resonance in biology and medicine) for the Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB 2018.

• Nina Miolane received the second prize (special mention) for the AFRIF (french association for shape interpretation and recognition) PhD prize for her PhD entitled “Geometric Statistics for Computational Anatomy” realized in the context of the associated team GeomStats under the direction of Xavier Pennec (Inria Sophia Antipolis) and Susan Holmes (Stanford University).