Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Tau will continue Tao policy about technology transfer, accepting any informal meeting following industrial requests for discussion (and we are happy to be too much solicited), and deciding about the follow-up based upon the originality, feasibility and possible impacts of the foreseen research directions, provided they fit our general canvas. This lead to the following 5 on-going CIFRE PhDs, with the corresponding side-contracts with the industrial supervisor, plus 3 other bilateral contracts. In particular, we now have a first “Affiliate” partner, the SME DMH, and hope to further develop in the future this form of transfer. Note that it can also sometimes lead to collaborative projects, as listed in the following sections.

• CIFRE RTE 2015-2018 (72 kEuros), with Réseau Transport d'Electricité, related to Benjamin Donnot's CIFRE PhD

  Coordinator: Olivier Teytaud (until May 2016), then Isabelle Guyon, and Antoine Marot (RTE)

  Participants: Benjamin Donnot, Marc Schoenauer

• Myndblue, 2017-2018 (1 an, 50kEuros) related to consulting activities with DMH (Digital for Mental Health)(This “Affiliate” contract has been inspired by the affiliate program of Technion).

  Coordinator: Aurélien Decelle and Simon Moulieras (DMH)

  Participants: Michèle Sebag

• Contrat LFI 2017-2018 (30kEuros), with La Fabrique de l'Industrie, related to quality of life at work (Section 7.3.1).

  Coordinator: Michèle Sebag and Thierry Weil (La Fabrique de l'Industrie)

  Participants: Olivier Goudet, Diviyan Kalainathan

• POC Renault 2017-2018 (125 kEuros), Clusterisation et optimisation de scenarii pour la validation des véhicules autonomes

  Coordinator: Marc Schoenauer and Philippe Reynaud (Renault)

  Participants: Guillaume Charpiat, Raphaël Jaiswal (engineer), Marc Schoenauer

• CIFRE Renault 2017-2020 (45 kEuros), related to Marc Nabhan's CIFRE PhD Sûreté de fonctionnement d’un véhicule autonome - évaluation des fausses détections au travers d’un profil de mission réduit

  Coordinator: Marc Schoenauer and Hiba Hage (Renault)

  Participants: Marc Nabhan (PhD), Yves Tourbier (Renault)

• OPLa 2017-2018, Organizing Platform Labor (27k euros), funded by Force Ouvrière.

  Coordinator: A.A. Casilli (Telecom ParisTech)

  Participants: Paola Tubaro

• DiPLab 2017-2018, Digital Platform Labor (24k euros), funded by MSH Paris-Saclay.

  Coordinators: Paola Tubaro (avec A.A. Casilli, Telecom ParisTech)

• CIFRE Thalès 2018-2021 (45 kEuros), with Thales Teresis, related to Nizam Makdoud's CIFRE PhD

  Coordinator: Marc Schoenauer and Jérôme Kodjabatchian

  Participants: Nizam Makdoud

• CIFRE RTE 2018-2021 (72 kEuros), with Réseau Transport d'Electricité, related to Balthazar Donon's CIFRE PhD

  Coordinator: Isabelle Guyon and Antoine Marot (RTE)

  Participants: Balthazar Donon, Marc Schoenauer

• CIFRE FAIR 2018-2021 (45 kEuros), with Facebook AI Research, related to Leonard Blier's CIFRE PhD

  Coordinator: Marc Schoenauer and Yann Olliver (Facebook)

  Participatns: Guillaume Charpiat, Michèle Sebag, Léonard Blier

• Google Zurich 2018 (50kEuros), related to the AutoDL (see Section 3.4)

  Coordinator: Isabelle Guyon and Olivier Bousquet (Google)

  Participants: Zhengying Liu and Lisheng Sun

• IFPEN (Institut Français du Pétrole Energies Nouvelles) 2018-2022 (300 kEuros), to hire an Inria Starting Research Position (PhD + 4-6 years) to work in all topics mentioned in Section 3.2 relevant to IFPEN activity (see also Section 4.2).