Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar

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September, 2026 - More information to come
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Event open to 3IA Chairholders and theirs teams, as well as everyone from 3IA consortium interested in AI.

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Past Seminars: 2025-2026
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #56

Speakers:

  • Giulia Foroni, 3IA Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur), supervised by Olivier Humbert, 3IA Chairholder| Flash presentation - AI-based precision oncology to monitor response of metastatic cancer to immunotherapy using PET/CT imaging
  • Pierre Pereira, Ph.D. student (Inria), supervised by Emanuele Natale and Frédéric Giroire, both 3IA Chairholders | Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem with Positional Encoding
  • Pierre Monnin, Research scientist (Inria) | Rethinking Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs: Instability, Semantic Awareness, and Neuro-Symbolic Approaches
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #55

Speakers:

  • Amel Bakhouche, 3IA Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur), Supervised by Juliette Raffort-Lareyre, Fellow | Flash presentation - Multi-State Analysis of Peripheral Artery Disease Outcomes Using the SNDS Database
  • Iuliu Cuceu, Ph.D. student (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur), Supervisors: Nelson L. Christensen, Astrid Lamberts | LISA stochastic gravitational wave component separation with diffusion
  • Federica Granese, Researcher (Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur) | Topic Models for Online Analysis of Document Streams
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #54

Speakers:

  • Maya Guy, 3IA Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur), Chair of Vincent Vandewalle | Flash presentation - Unveiling Hidden Structures in the Main Belt: A Probabilistic Framework for Asteroid Families
  • Rafael Silva, 3IA Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Maxime Sermesant | Frugal Deep Learning for Shockable Rhythm Detection in Ultra-Portable Defibrillators
  • Ameer Saadat-Yazdi, Postdoctoral researcher (Inria) | Studies Show That Whatever I Say is True:  Source-Based Arguments and Citation Misuse
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #53

Speakers:

  • Matheus de Oliveira Bispo, 3IA Postdoc researcher (Inria), Chair of Pierre-Alexandre Mattei | Flash presentation - Machine Learning for Sample-Efficient Molecular Property Prediction
  • Amelie Lam, Ph.D. student (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur), co-supervised by Héloïse Meheut and André Ferrari | CNN-Augmented Fluid Solver for Capturing Fine-Scale Turbulence
  • Margaux Schmied, 3IA Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur / CNRS), Chair of Jean-Charles Régin | Solver and Generator of Cryptarithm Using Constraint Programming
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #52

Speakers:

  • Simon Queric, 3IA Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Charles Bouveyron | Flash presentation - A quick overview of Optimal Transport in Machine Learning
  • Maria Sofia Bucarelli, 3IA Postdoc researcher (Université Côte d'Azur / CNRS), Chair of Emanuele Natale | Task Singular Vectors: Reducing Task Interference in Model Merging
  • Hugo Bulzomi, Ph.D. student (Université Nice Côte d'Azur, IMRA Europe), co-supervised by Jean Martinet and Yuta Nakano | Neuromorphic Computing for Low Energy Computer Vision
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #51

Speakers:

  • Diana Sebbar, 3IA Director, and Serena Villata, 3IA Scientific Director | Greetings and announcement from the new 3IA Management
  • Mariam Grigoryan, Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur / Inria), Chair of Vincent Vandewalle | Secreted proteins as early, sensitive indicators of chemical bioactivity
  • Marco Winkler, Professor (Université Côte d'Azur) | Principles of Analytic Provenance for Intelligence Augmentation : a case study of search interactions
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #50

Speakers:

  • Ezem Sura Ekmekci, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Nicholas Ayache | Flash presentation - Temporal Action Segmentation for Robot-Assisted Surgery Analysis
  • Yingxue Fu, Postdoctoral researcher (Université Côte d'Azur) | Contextualizing Toxicity: An Annotation Framework for Unveiling Pragmatics in Conversations of Online Discussion Forums
  • Seydina Niang, Ph.D. student (Université Côte d'Azur / Inria), Chair of Charles Bouveyron | Importance weighted directed graph variational auto-encoder for block modelling of complex networks
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #49

Speakers:

  • Raphaël Razafindralambo, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Pierre-Alexandre Mattei | Flash presentation - When are Two Scores Better than One? Investigating Ensemble of Diffusion Models
  • Nissim Maruani, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Pierre Alliez | Flash presentation - ShapeShifter: 3D Variations Using Multiscale and Sparse Point-Voxel Diffusion
  • Davide Ferre', Ph.D. student (CNRS) | Constructions in mathematics with a little help from AI
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #48

Speakers:

  • Deborah Dore, Ph.D. student (CNRS), Chair of Serena VillataFlash presentation: Comprehensive Emotion Understanding and Applications
  • Louis Hauseux, Ph.D. student (Inria), Konstantin Avrachenko | Generalization of Single-Linkage with Higher-Order Interactions
  • Andrea Nasi, Ph.D. student (Università degli Studi di Torino) | Ontology-Driven Interfaces for Spatio-Temporal Exploration of Cultural Landscapes
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #47

Speakers:

  • Seongro Yoon, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of François BremondFlash presentation: Comprehensive Emotion Understanding and Applications
  • Federica Facente, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of Pierre Berthet-Rayne | Multi-stage CNN for fast registration of 3D preoperative CTs to 2D intraoperative X-rays
  • Vincenzo Marciano, Ph.D. student (EURECOM), Chairs of Sébastien Ourselin & Maria A. Zuluaga | Diffusion-Based Quality Control of Medical Image Segmentations across Multiple Organs
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Past Seminars: 2024-2025
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #46

Speakers:

  • Guillaume Méroué (Inria, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S - PhD) | Flash presentation - Neural-based Analogical Reasoning for Link Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
  • Clara Thomas (Inria - PhD) | How to reduce the energy consumption of an industrial Pick and Place Robot
  • Nicolás Ocampo (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica - Postdoc) | Where lies Meet Hate : Combating Harmful Misinformation Online
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #45

Speakers:

  • Madina Bekbergenova  (Université Côte d'Azur - ICN, PhD)Flash presentation: MetaboT: AI-based agent for natural language-based interaction with metabolomics knowledge graphs
  • Xufeng Zhang (Inria - Team Neo, PhD) | Memory-efficient online caching Policies with regret guarantees
  • Cloé Mahé (Université Côte d'Azur, PhD) | First robust census of binary supermassive black holes : Deep Learning techniques applied to the Euclid space mission.
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #44

Speakers:

  • Manasi Kattel  (Inria, PhD)Flash presentation: MRI-Ultrasound Image Registration for Prostate Cancer Care
  • Francesco Diana (Inria, PhD) | Attribute Inference Attacks for Federated Regression Tasks
  • Alexey Sergeyev (Université Côte d'Azur, Researcher) | Asteroids in the Digital Age: Insights from Modern Sky Surveys
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #43

Speakers:

  • Xufeng Zhang (Inria, PhD) | Flash presentation: Online optimistic caching with switching cost
  • Lisa Guzzi (Inria, PhD) | Differentiable Soft Morphological Filters for Improving Arterial Segmentation in Peripheral Artery Disease
  • Luc Lehéricy (Université Côte d'Azur, Researcher) | Deconvolution with unknown noise distribution for structured signals
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #42

Speakers:

  • Morgane Fierville (IPMC CNRS - Université Côte d'Azur) | Flash presentation: Spatial transcriptomics of the human lung from health to pathologies
  • Davide Adamo (PhD, CEPAM lab / INRIA) | Rethinking Multiple Kernel Learning under the lenses of Variational Inference
  • Emmanuel Bouilhol (Postdoc, I3S Université Côte d'Azur) | ECMQuant: Quantitative Analysis of the Tumor Extracellular Matrix in Head and Neck cancer
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #41

Speakers:

  • Seydina Niang (PhD, Université Côte d'Azur / Inria) | Flash presentation: Deep generative models for the joint analysis of networks and continuous
  • Greta Damo (PhD, Université Côte d'Azur / Inria) | Detecting and Countering Hate Speech Messages on Social Media
  • Benjamin Billot (Researcher, INRIA) | Domain-agnostic segmentation of brain MRI scans
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #40

Speakers:

  • Olivier Bisson (PhD, INRIA) | Flash presentation: Geometry, stratification and applications of structured correlation matrices
  • Tomasz Stanczyk (PhD, INRIA) | Temporally Propagated Masks and Bounding Boxes: Combining the Best of Both Worlds for Multi-Object Tracking
  • Jean-Pierre Merlet (3IA Chairholder, INRIA) | Solving parametric systems of equations with neural network
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #39

Speakers:

  • Margaux SCHMIED (PhD, UCA) | Flash presentation: Improving assignment problems with costs
  • Victor DAVID (Researcher, INRIA) | An Axiomatic Study of the Evaluation of Enthymeme Decoding in Weighted Structured Argumentation
  • Rémy SUN (Researcher, INRIA) |
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #38

Speakers:

  • Rafael Silva (PhD, Inria) | Flash presentation: Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cardiac Monitoring
  • Eloise Da Cunha (PhD, UCA) | Speech-Based Detection of Motor and Physical Deficits in the geriatric population
  • Valeriia Rezapova (PhD, UCA) | Computational analysis on mature osteoclast transcriptome revealed the existence of 3 osteoclast lineages with different functional, metabolic and regulatory properties
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #37

Speakers:

  • Vincenzo Marciano (PhD, EURECOM) | Flash presentation
  • Mariam Grigoryan (PhD, Inria) | Identification of Molecular Patterns for Chemical Safety Assessment
  • Mathieu Carrière (Research Scientist, Inria) | Diffeomorphic interpolation for efficient topological optimization
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Past Seminars: 2023-2024
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #36

Speakers:

  • Pierpaolo Goffredo (PhD, CNRS - I3S) | Argument-based Detection and Classification of Fallacies in Political Debates
  • Célian Ringwald (PhD, Inria - I3S) | Impact of Syntaxes on Data Extraction with Language Models
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #35

Speakers:

  • Edoardo Sarti (permanent researcher, INRIA) | Spectral partitioning into protein structural domains
  • Lucile Sassatelli (full professor, Université Côte d'Azur) | Visual objectification in films as a new AI task
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #34

Speakers:

  • Gonzague Radureau (PhD, OCA) | A new high-performance computation method of the Eddington tensor in radiation hydrodynamics simulation
  • Stefan Sarkadi (KCL, INRIA) | Deceptive AI and Society
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #31

Speakers:

  • Ryan Cotsakis (UniCA) | The extremal range: a local statistic for studying spatial extremes
  • Sara Frusone (UniCA) | Identifying spatiotemporal dispersion in catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation: a comparative study of machine learning techniques using both real and realistic synthetic multipolar electrograms
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #30

Speakers:

  • Francesco Galati (EURECOM) | A Single Model Strategy for Multi-Domain Cerebrovascular Segmentation
  • Luca Calatroni (CNRS, I3S) | Physics-inspired learning for fluctuation-based super-resolution microscopy
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #29

Speakers:

  • Hava Chaptoukaev (EURECOM) | AI for e-health: Stress Identification from Multimodal Data
  • Louis Ohl (Inria) | Generalised mutual information (GEMINI) - A constellation of discriminative clustering models
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #28

Speakers:

  • Matej Hladis (UniCA) Matching receptor to odorant with protein language and graph neural networks
  • Elena Di Bernardino (3IA chair, UniCA) | Geometry of excursion sets: a statistical and computational point of view
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #27

Speakers:

  • Faisal Jayousi (CNRS)Geometric and statistical analysis of the extracellular matrix 
  • Oualid Zari (EURECOM) Privacy Attacks in Machine Learning and Defenses
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Past Seminars: 2022-2023
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #26

Speakers:

  • Nissim Maruani (Inria)VoroMesh: Learning Watertight Surface Meshes with Voronoi Diagrams
  • Julien Aubert (CNRS) On the convergence of the MLE as an estimator of the learning rate in the Exp3 algorithm
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #25

Speakers:

  • Stefano Spaziani (CNRS) | Estimating the functional connectivity in the brain via a multiscale spike-LFP autoregressive model
  • Virginia d'Auria (invited researcher) | Quantum information science
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #24

Speakers:

  • Zhijie Fang (Inria) Landmark detection via convolutional neural network
  • Josué Tchouanti (CNRS LJAD) Detection of neural synchronization and implication for neuroscience experimental design
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #23

Speakers:

  • Thi Khuyen Le (Inria)Comparison of handcrafted radiomics and 3D-CNN models to diagnose striatal dopamine deficiency in Parkinsonian syndromes based on 18F-FDOPA PET images
  • Irene Balelli (external researcher - Inria) The search for causality in the analysis and modeling of biomedical data
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #22

Speakers:

  • Valerya Strizhkova (Inria)Multi-View Video Masked Autoencoder for Emotion Recognition
  • Lucie Cadorel (invited outside 3IA - I3S & Inria)Geospatial Knowledge in Real Estate Listings : Extracting and Localizing Uncertain Spatial Information from Text
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #21

Speakers:

  • David Loiseaux (Inria)Towards multiparameter persistent homology descriptors for machine learning
  • Alessandro Betti (Inria)Deep Learning to See
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #20

Speakers:

  • Yacine Khacef (Université Côte d'Azur)High-Resolution Traffic Monitoring with Distributed Acoustic Sensing and AI
  • Daniel Inzunza (Inria)A PINN approach for traffic state estimation and model calibration based on loop detector flow data
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #19

Speakers:

  • Lucia Innocenti (Inria) Analysis of Multi-centric AI-based frame-works in prostate segmentation
  • Riccardo Taiello (Inria) Privacy Preserving Image Registration

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #18

Speakers:

  • Rémi Felin (UCA, I3S) | Optimizing the Computation of a Possibilistic Heuristic to Test OWL 2 SubClassOf Axioms Against RDF Data
  • Huiyu Li (Inria, Epione) | Data Stealing Attack on Medical Images: Is it Safe to Export Networks from Data Lakes?
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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #17

Speakers:

  • Benjamin Ocampo (UCA, I3S) | "We Need Two Poke Flutes to Wake You Up'' an In-depth Analysis of Implicit and Subtle Hate Speech Messages
  • Tong Zhao (Inria) | Progressive Discrete Domains for Implicit Surface Reconstruction

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Past Seminars: 2021-2022
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #16

Speakers:

  • Prof. Ludovic Dibiaggio | Introduction to the OTESIA institute
  • Daniel Inzunza (Inria) | PINNs approach for traffic model calibration
  • Angelo Rodio (Inria) | Resource-aware Federated Learning

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #15

Speakers:

  • Andrea Castagnetti (UCA, LEAT) | Neural information coding for efficient spike-based image denoising
  • Christos Bountzouklis (UCA, LJAD) | Environmental factors affecting wildfire-burned areas in southeastern France

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #14

Speakers:

  • Antonia Ettorre (UCA, I3S) | A systematic approach to identify the information captured by Knowledge Graph Embeddings
  • Victoriya Kashtanova (Inria) | Deep Learning Approach for Cardiac Electrophysiology Modeling

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #13

Speakers:

  • Aude Sportisse (Inria) | Informative labels in Semi-Supervised Learning
  • Alexandra Würth (Inria) | Data driven traffic management by Macroscopic models

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #12

Speakers:

  • Hind Dadoun (Inria) | AI-based Real Time Diagnosis of Abdominal Ultrasound Images
  • Victor Jung (UCA) | Checking Constraint Satisfaction

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #11

Speakers:

  • Bogdan Kozyrskiy (EURECOM) | Binarization for Optical Processing Units via REINFORCE
  • Paul Tourniaire (Inria) | Attention-based Multiple Instance Learning for Histopathology

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #10

Speakers:

  • Etrit Haxholli (Inria) | On the Estimation of Shape Parameters of Tails of Marginal Distributions
  • Cedric Vincent-Cuaz (UCA) | Semi-relaxed Gromov-Wasserstein divergence with applications on graphs

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #9

Speakers:

  • Santiago Marro (CNRS) | Natural Language Argumentation Quality Assessment maps
  • Artem Muliukov (UCA) | Cortex-inspired multimodal AI approach based on self-organizing 

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #8

Speakers:

  • Kristof Huszar (Inria) | Towards Efficient Algorithms in Computational Topology
  • Mauro Zucchelli (Inria) | Diffusion MRI based Brain Tissue Microstructure Characterization Using Autoencoder Neural-Networks

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #7

Speakers:

  • Vasiliki Stergiopoulou (CNRS) | COL0RME: Super-Resolution Microscopy Based on the Localization of Sparse Blinking Fluorophores
  • Ali Ballout (UCA) | Predicting the Possibilistic Score of Atomic Candidate OWL Axioms

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #6

Speakers:

  • Hugo Schmutz (Inria) | Towards safe deep semi-supervised learning
  • Amirhossein Tavakoli (MINES ParisTech) | Hybrid combinatorial optimization and machine learning algorithms for energy-efficient water network

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Past Seminars: 2020-2021
 

Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #5

Speakers:

  • Ayse Unsal (Eurecom) | A Statistical Threshold for Adversarial Classification in Laplace Mechanisms
  • Ashwin James (CNRS) | Inference of choice granularity via learning model selection in a cognitive task 

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #4

Speakers:

  • Mohsen Tabejamaat (Inria) | Conditional image generation using structural priors
  • William Hammersley (UCA) | Randomizing gradient descents on the space of probability measures
  • Athanasios Vasileiadis (UCA) | Exploration noise for Mean Field Games

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #3

Speakers:

  • Amar Bouali (3IA Côte d'Azur) | Introduction to the Partnership and Innovation initiatives of 3IA Côte d'Azur
  • Antoine Collin (CNRS) | Automatic cell type annotation for cell atlas construction
  • Ziming Liu (Inria) | High-resolution Detection Network for Small Objects

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #2

Speakers:

  • Aurélie Delort (3IA Côte d'Azur) | Presentation of the Education & Training program
  • Boris Shminke (CNRS) | Using Denoising Autoencoder for Cayley table completion task
  • Dingge Liang (Inria) | A Deep Latent Recommender System based on User Ratings and Reviews
  • Martijn Van Den Ende (UCA) | Fibre-optics, earthquakes, and a zebra: intelligent signal denoising with Deep Learning

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Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #1