Awards & nominations

The Rennes 1 Foundation awarded, on Thursday July 2nd, its 2019 Thesis Prizes to 8 PhDs from the University of Rennes 1. Congratulations to Hakim Si-Mohammed who completed his thesis in the Hybrid research team. Thesis Director: Anatole Lécuyer Thesis abstract: Design of new interactive systems in which users manipulate real and virtual objects, thanks to Brain-Computer Interfaces that allow to [..]

Intel sponsors and works alongside leading academic researchers around the globe in such areas as quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and other emerging innovative technologies. Each year, Intel recognizes the outstanding contributions made by Intel-sponsored academic research by awarding prizes to outstanding researchers. In selecting the winners, special consideration is given to [..]

Awards at the IEEE HAPTICS 2020 Conference Congratulations to Rahaf Rahal (PhD Student Université de Rennes 1, RAINBOW research team) Thomas Howard (post-doctoral CNRS, RAINBOW research team) Guillaume Gicquel (engineer, CNRS) Giulia Matarese (student M2, RAINBOW research team) Steeven Villa (student M2, RAINBOW research team) Xavier de Tinguy (PhD Student, INSA, HYBRID reseach team) Maud Marchal [..]

Congratulations to Fabien Spindler (Inria Engineer) and François Chaumette (Inria Research Director) of the Rainbow research team and the other members of the consortium of the H2020 Comanoid project coordinated by Abderrahmane Kheddar (CNRS Researcher at LIRMM), who received at ICRA 2020 conference the best paper 2019 award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine for the article : A. Kheddar [..]

The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) is pleased to announce the winners of this year's Best Paper Awards. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer) for : Robin Gerzaguet (associate professor at Enssat and member of GRANIT research team) Nikolaos Bartzoudis, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Vincent Berg, Jean-Baptiste Doré, Dimitri Kténas, Oriol Font-Bach [..]

Congratulations to Juliana Alves Pereira (Post doctoral student Université de Rennes 1), Mathieu Acher (Associate Professor Université de Rennes 1), Hugo Martin (PhD student Université de Rennes 1) and Jean-Marc Jezequel (Professor Université de Rennes 1) of the research team DIVERSE for their Best Paper Award at the ICPE 2020 international conference, which took place from 20-24 April at distance [..]

Congratulations to the Hybrid reserach team which was awarded 3 prizes at the IEEE VR 2020 conference Best Journal Paper Award : "Avatar and Sense of Embodiment: Studying the Relative Preference Between Appearance, Control and Point of View" Rebecca Fribourg, Ferran Argelaguet, Anatole Lécuyer, Ludovic Hoyet Best Conference Paper Award : "Detecting System Errors in Virtual Reality Using EEG [..]

This year, the CNRS awards 22 researchers the silver medal for the originality, quality and importance of their work and 46 researchers the bronze medal to encourage them to continue their committed and already fruitful research. Congratulations to Anne-Cécile Orgerie who received the bronze medal from the CNRS, in recognition of its outstanding work on energy efficiency in distributed systems [..]