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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #48
Speakers:
- Deborah Dore, Ph.D. student (CNRS), Chair of Serena Villata | Flash 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
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #47
Speakers:
- Seongro Yoon, Ph.D. student (Inria), Chair of François Bremond | Flash 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
- Past Seminars: 2024-2025
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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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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) |
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
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
- Past Seminars: 2023-2024
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Past Seminars: 2022-2023
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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
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
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
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
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
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #21
Speakers:
- David Loiseaux (Inria) | Towards multiparameter persistent homology descriptors for machine learning
- Alessandro Betti (Inria) | Deep Learning to See
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
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
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?
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
- Past Seminars: 2021-2022
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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
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
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
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #13
Speakers:
- Aude Sportisse (Inria) | Informative labels in Semi-Supervised Learning
- Alexandra Würth (Inria) | Data driven traffic management by Macroscopic models
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #12
Speakers:
- Hind Dadoun (Inria) | AI-based Real Time Diagnosis of Abdominal Ultrasound Images
- Victor Jung (UCA) | Checking Constraint Satisfaction
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
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
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
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
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
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
- Past Seminars: 2020-2021
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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
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
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
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
Doctoral & Postdoctoral Seminar #1