Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

The ANSWER project (Advanced aNd Secured Web Experience and seaRch) is lead by the QWANT search engine and the Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée research center. This proposal is the winner of the "Grand Challenges du Numérique" (BPI) and aims to develop the new version of the search engine http://www.qwant.com with radical innovations in terms of search criteria, indexed content and privacy of users. Nataliia Bielova, Manuel Serrano and Tamara Rezk are involved in this project. The project started on January 1, 2018. In the context of this project, we got

• with Arnaud Legout from the DIANA project-team a funding for a 3 years Ph.D. student to work on Web tracking technologies and privacy protection. Imane Fouad was hired to work on this project.

• a funding for 18 months Postdoc to work on Web application security. Yoon Seok Ko has worked on this project as a postdoc.