PhD Awards
Since 2020, EDSTIC awards the best theses of the year. The selection is usually made in the fall for theses defended between September 1 of the previous year and August 31 of the current year. It is not necessary to apply for these prizes. The number of prizes and their titles may vary from year to year. These prizes, which are awarded on the basis of parity between men and women, are intended to reward innovative work as well as the ability of the doctoral student to present his or her work in a clear and pedagogical manner.
The majority of these awards are funded by the ED itself, and generally one award is funded by the Fondation de l’Université Côte d’Azur.
Eligibility. All EDSTIC doctoral students are eligible for the award, but winners must agree to attend the award ceremony. Please inform the Doctoral School secretariat, with a copy to the management, if you do not wish to compete for the PhD Awards. The names of the winners and the titles of their dissertations will be published on this page each year.
Selection Process. An initial selection will be made to determine the list of "finalists". This selection will be based on the evaluations of the PhD reviewers and the quality of the defense. In the fall, the EDSTIC Board will meet to select the winners from the finalists.
2023 Awards
| Award Title | Name | Title of the doctoral dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| 1st ATSI Specialty Award | Yann FRABONI | Reliability and Robustness of Federated Learning in Practical Applications |
| 2d ATSI Specialty Award | Marielle PÉRÉ | Modeling cancer drug response dynamics in single-cells to predict the emergence of drug-tolerant cells |
| 1st Electronics/COP Specialty Award | Pierre-Emmanuel NOVAC | MicroAI: Embedded Artificial Intelligence for Human Activity Recognition on Smart Glasses |
| 1st Computer Science Specialty Award | Sara RIVA | Factorisation of discrete dynamical systems |
| 2d Computer Science Specialty Award | David ANGHELONE | Computer vision and deep learning applied to face recognition in the invisible spectrum |
| Parity Award | Dima EL ZEIN | Representing, Tracking, and Evaluating User's Changing Knowledge and Needs in Information Retrieval |
| Special Award for Interdisciplinarity | Eva GIL SAN ANYONIO | Intelligent storage on synthetic DNA for archiving digital images |
2022 Awards
| Award Title | Name | Title of the doctoral dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| 1st ATSI Specialty Award | Yann THANWERDAS | Riemannian and stratified geometries on covariance and correlation matrices |
| 2d ATSI Specialty Award | Agustin YABO | Optimal resource allocation in bacterial growth: theoretical study and applications to metabolite production |
| 1st Electronics/COP Specialty Award | Luca SANTAMARIA | Integrated Reconfigurable Antenna Systems for Dynamic Wireless IoT Networks |
| 1st Computer Science Specialty Award | Foivos FIORAVANTES | Edge-labellings, vertex-colourings and combinatorial games on graphs |
| 2d Computer Science Specialty Award | Nicolas ISOART | The traveling salesman problem in constraint programming |
| Parity Award | Lesly-Ann DANIEL | Symbolic Binary-Level Code Analysis for Security |
| UniCA Foundation Award | Hicham LESFARI | Foundations of Networks towards AI |
2021 Awards
| Award Title | Name | Title of the doctoral dissertation |
|---|---|---|
| 1st ATSI Specialty Award | Arne BECHENSTEEN | Constrained L2-L0 optimization and its application to Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy |
| 2d ATSI Specialty Award | Benoît AUDELAN | Probabilistic segmentation modelling and deep learning-based lung cancer screening |
| 1st Electronics/COP Specialty Award | Lyes KHACEF | Exploration of brain-inspired computing with self-organizing neuromorphic architectures |
| 2d Electronics/COP Specialty Award | Gildas SIGGINI | Integrated approach for the prospective analysis of the deep decarbonization of the European power system by 2050 in the face of climate variability |
| 1st Computer Science Specialty Award | Piotr KRASNOWSKI | Joint source-cryptographic-channel coding for real-time secure voice communications on voice channels |
| 2d Computer Science Specialty Award | Othmane BELMOUKADAM | QoE aware content management in the Internet: caching and transport |
| Parity Award | Muxingzi LI | Geometric approximation of structured scenes from images |
| UniCA Foundation Award | Zhiqi TANG | Visual servo control of aerial vehicle |