Meet 3IA Côte d'Azur new Ph.D. students and Postdoc researchers
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Published on January 21, 2026–Updated on January 23, 2026
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on the January 21, 2026
Meet our new Ph.D. students and Postdoc researchers
We are delighted to welcome the 3IA Côte d'Azur 2025 second semester cohort of Ph.D. students and Postdoc researchers. Discover their research topics!
Merve Asiler, Postdoc researcher: “Computational and AI approaches in geometry processing for watertight mesh generation, alpha wrapping, surface approximation, surface reconstruction and surface remeshing”, under the supervision of Pierre Alliez (Axis 3)
Shamik Basu, Ph.D. student: “Hybrid AI for sensor-based robot control”, under the supervision of Ezio Malis (Axis 3)
Giulia Foroni, Ph.D. student: “AI-based precision oncology to monitor response of metastatic cancer to immunotherapy using PET/CT imaging”, under the supervision of Olivier Humbert (Axis 2)
Aakash Kumar, Ph.D. student: “Efficiency, Structure and Representation in Neural Networks”, under the supervision of Emanuele Natale (Axis 1)
Vanessa Lopez, Ph.D. student: “Creation of the Digital Twin of the Operating Room (OR-Twin)”, under the supervision of Marc-Olivier Gauci (Axis 2)
Tùng Nguyen, Ph.D. student: “Adaptive method for safe machine learning”, under the supervision of Samuel Vaiter (Axis 1)
Simone Varriale, Ph.D. student: “TableMind: Scalable Inference-Time Strategies for Structured Data Reasoning”, under the supervision of Paolo Papotti (Axis 3)
We look forward to the contributions they will bring to their fields!