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Congratulations to Davide Balzarotti, Assistant-Professor in the Department "Networking and Security" for his HDR (french appellation for "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches") defended on September, 30rd, 2015, on the following subject of "Web Application Security".
The Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches "sanctions the recognition of the high scientific level of the candidate, the original character of his approach in a field of science, its ability to master a research strategy in a sufficiently broad science or technology and its capacity to supervise young researchers. "

On Friday, October 9th, at 17:30, David Gesbert, Professor and Head of Department "Mobile Communications", will participate in the Round Table "Tomorrow smart objects" as part of the Science Festival, to be held at the "CIV" Valbonne.

The panel will be moderated by David LOWE of the TV show "On n’est pas que des Cobayes" - France 5. Admission is free within the limits of available places.

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Congratulations to the new Dr. Andrei COSTIN, of the Networking and Security Department (supervised by Davide Balzarotti and Aurélien Francillon) who successfully defended his thesis!
His PhD topic was the "Large Scale Security Analysis of Embedded Devices’ Firmware". It was the ninth PhD thesis of the year at EURECOM.

The 23rd class of EURECOM engineers will be honored on September 18, 2015 for the graduation ceremony, patroned by Dr. Christoph Grote, CEO of BMW Research & Technology at BMW. 

Congrats to Alberto Benegiamo (PhD student at EURECOM / Inria), Vincenzo Mastandrea (PhD student at Inria), Luca Schiatti (Accenture Labs, Sophia Antipolis), Flavio Toffalini (Master student, intern at EURECOM) and Paolo Viotti (PhD student at EURECOM) who won the prize for the most innovative startup idea of the Hackathon #GreenGame which was organized during May 29-30, 2015. The hackthon was about sustainability and green living, and it was focused on using the open data made available by different local public entities (e.g. the city of Nice, the province, etc).

The team won a prize which consists of two free enrollments for the European Innovation Academy.

The team presented the following project: 

• Typ! (That's Your Place!) allows everyone to find the perfect neighborhood to live in a given area. Users can specify several kinds of preferences or needs. For example, they may wish to live close to a bus stop or a swimming pool or rather live away from a park containing trees which cause allergies. Typ! will therefore highlight on a map different neighborhoods of the city suggesting the most suited to the users.
• Typ! is a possible application built on top of Erdös, the data aggregation and analytic platform we envision to extract value from the open data generated by public administrations. The Erdös platform will be able to classify thematically open data which are today scattered among different institutions and are not standardized. Erdös will allow policy makers to extend and coordinate the breadth of their actions by searching and discovering new patterns, getting access to clean, well-organized information.

On 2 June in Sophia Antipolis, was held a press conference organized by Com4Innov and its partner Ericsson, with several demonstrations on two innovative subjects: WIFI Calling (Voice over LTE call on WiFi) and Internet of Things (IoT). The WIFI Calling is a technical feat that is also the first in France!

As a demonstration, Christian BONNET, Professor at EURECOM, presented new information sharing means for applications such as Crowd Sourcing, home automation and remote monitoring: eg: Lightweight Gateway, where the smartphone becomes a smart object.

More info and the press release

Congratulations to Amélie Gyrard, PhD student, Mobiles Communications Dept supervised by Prof. C. Bonnet, who brilliantly defended her thesis on April 24, 2015 on "Designing Internet applications of semantic objects", as well as Martina Cardone, a doctoral student in the Department Mobile Communications supervised by Prof. R. Knopp, whose topic was "Cooperative techniques applied to future cellular networks", and finally Fidan Mehmeti, also a PhD student in Mobile Communications Department, who was supervised by Prof. T. Spyropoulos, for his thesis "Performance analysis and optimization of wireless access in cognitive and heterogeneous networks."

UCN@SOPHIA organizes a scientific day for presenting the Labex PhD research activities on April 24, in the SophiaTech campus (Amphitheater in Forum building). 

The objective of this day is to give an overview of the UCN@Sophia research activities, focused on telecommunication networks and their evolutions, and to make it possible for students and researchers to discuss their work and approaches in this area.
This day will allow everyone to discover the scientific work in the Labex through presentations and posters. This is also an opportunity to support our young researchers. That's why several EURECOM PhD students also propose topics on this day:
Florian Lugou, "Security analysis for communicating devices", Sosina-Mengistu Gashaw: "Understanding and modeling mobility characteristics of scooters and motorcycles for user-centric ITS apps", Luigi Vigneri: "Vehicles as a mobile cloud", Xiwen Jiang: "Exploiting channel reciprocity in massive MIMO", et Alberto Benegiamo: "Mathematical tools for smart-grids".

Go support them!
More info and registration

As part of the Labex UCN@SOPHIA, a workshop "Intelligent Transport System" is going to be organized on March 20, 2015 on the campus SophiaTech, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM at EURECOM. The purpose of this meeting is to create a space for exchange and discussion to initiate future collaborations and possibly a preparation projects call for answers.

Program and registration

As part of Rescom pole, ASR GDR, a theme day on vehicular networks (REVE) is organized by EURECOM on its campus in Sophia Antipolis. The theme of this 7th edition: CONNECTED VEHICLES IN INTERNET VEHICLE.
Registration is free but required for logistical reasons.

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