Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Awards

• The work on graph-based text categorization by F. Malliaros et al. [39] has received the best paper award at the 12^th NAACL-HLT Workshop on Graph-Based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs), held in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 2018.

• Riza Alp Güler obtained the 2nd place at Prix du Doctorant for the Doctoral School STIC of Univ. Paris Saclay.

• M. Papadomanolaki and M. Vakalopoulou got the 2nd place at the Earth Observation Challenge organised by Digital Globe and ESA for the project UrbanMonitor: Mapping Changes in Urban Environments towards Resilient Cities and Urban Sustainability. http://blog.digitalglobe.com/news/earth-observation-challenge-the-three-winners/

• A. Pirayre whose PhD thesis was advised by J.-C. Pesquet received the Yves Chauvin PhD award (IFPEN).

• Our M.Sc. program in Data Sciences and Business Analytics (with ESSEC Business School) was ranked 4^th worldwide in the QS World University Rankings.