Awards

Zeina Abdallah, third year PhD student in MOST team, has received the "Best student paper award" of the field "Terahertz, RF, Millimeter, and Submillimeter-Wave Technology and Applications" at the SPIE Photonics West San Francisco Conference.

Jean-Bernard Lasserre, already granted in 2014 (ERC Advanced Grant), received two awards at the INFORMS Conference 2015. "John von Neumann Theory Prize", awarded by INFORMS and the "Khachiyan Prize" of the INFORMS Society of Optimization.

During the Internationale Conference On Humanoid Robots, 18-20 november, 2014, in Madrid, Mehdi Benallegue and Florent Lamiraux (Gepetto team), received the price Mike Stilman rewarding the most original and innovative works for their presentation "Humanoid flexibility deformation can be efficiently estimated using only inertial measurement units and contact information"

During he 7th Franco-Spanish Day CMC2 / IBERNAM (MicroCapteurs Chimiques français / Spanish Network of Micro and Nanosystems) in Bilbao (Spain), our colleague Aliki Tsopela (MICA group) received the Club Award 2014 for Chemical microsensors for her invited talk «Electrochemical lab on-chip biosensors for the detection of water pollutants ».

Severin Lemaignan, PhD (RIS team) under the supervision of Rachid Alami, was awarded of the 2012 Best thesis prize by the GDR Robotics for his thesis entitled "Grounding the Interaction: Knowledge Representation for Interactive Robots" (LAAS-CNRS, IAS TUM, Munich)

The European Research Council, ERC, has just published the results of the Advanced Grant 2013 call. Jean-Paul Laumond, senior researcher in the field of robotics at LAAS-CNRS, has been selected for his project Actanthrope : Computational Foundations of Anthropomorphic Action.

Frédéric Blanc won the competition for the best application of the 2013 French edition of 2014 NIDays.

Best Paper Award to Nadia Chaabane Fakhfakh, PhD student at ROC Team at ICORES 2014

Medal of CNRS award ceremony for S. Bachmann, N. Fabre et J.M Pons.