Welcome at Inria

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The French Institute for Research in ICST

• Information and Communication Science and Technologies

RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING TRANSFER AND INNOVATION

A scientific and technological public institution under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry Gérard GIRAUDON January 23rd, 2013 - 2

Inria Key figures

(31.12.2011)

4,350

(60 % paid by Inria)

8

Research Centres in France

41

International conferences

4,432

Scientific publications

3,500

Scientists 1,282 Doctoral students 258 Post-Doctoral 546 R&D engineers

180

Project teams A BUDGET OF

€ 265M

Of which more than 25% from external resources

66

Associated teams throughout the world

255

Active patents

(in total)

1,000

Software

107

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Inria’s Research Centres

Inria PARIS Rocquencourt Inria RENNES

Bretagne Atlantique

Inria BORDEAUX

Sud-Ouest Gérard GIRAUDON

Inria LILLE

Nord Europe

Inria NANCY

Grand Est

Inria SACLAY

Île-de-France

Inria GRENOBLE

Rhône-Alpes January 23rd, 2013- 4

Inria Project-Team

• 10 to 30 people working under a scientific leader supervision • • Focused scientific theme and international evaluation A limited lifespan : average 8 years, maximum 12 years • Well-defined objectives and work program • Linked to and cooperating with industrial and scientific partners in France and around the world • A priori and a posteriori evaluation 180 Inria Project Teams in 2012 140 in partnership An organization that complements the universities Gérard GIRAUDON Inria Project Team January 23rd, 2013 - 5

5 Main research topics

1 Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation 2 Algorithmics, Programming, Software and Architecture 3 Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing 4 Perception, Cognition, Interaction 5 Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and Environment Gérard GIRAUDON January 23rd, 2013 - 6

Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée Research Centre

Milestones

1981

- Creation in Sophia Antipolis scientific park

1988

- First TCP/IP connection Europe – US - Operator of the first regional research computer network

1994

- Creation of the W3C Europe office (Inria founder)

1999

- Host of the European group ERCIM

2010

- First Inria project-team with an european university (Bologna-Italy) - KIC EIT ICT labs creation

2012

- Opening Campus SophiaTech in ICST (Teaching, Research, Innovation) Gérard GIRAUDON January 23rd, 2013 - 8

KEY figures

(2013) •

600

people including

510

scientists (researchers, lecturers, PhD students, post-doctoral, engineers ) and

90

staff support.

400

Inria salaries and

200

by partners (about half from UNS) • Budget 2012:

29,7 M€

• • including 21 M€ (state funding with 18 M€ for Inria Civil Servant Salary) 8,7 M€ external funding (contracts, software licenses, etc.) most from Europe funding (4 ERC grants Math&Info) •

3

sites: Sophia Antipolis (31 teams) , Montpellier (5 teams) , Bologna (1 team)

000 m²

of buildings on

7

ha in Sophia Antipolis -

19

•

38

teams – 21 teams in partnership with CNRS, universities (11 with UNS) and engineering schools •

41

nationalities •

16

start-ups, including 7 since 2000 •

29

active patents,

280

software • Evaluation by the French Evaluation Agency (2006-2010):

A + Gérard GIRAUDON

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Regional Ecosystems

Academic partners Competitiveness Clusters SCS Pegase Eurobiomed Optitec CapEnergie Pass MerPaca Risques Trimatec Cultural activities Public authorities Gérard GIRAUDON Socio-economics actors

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3 Main scientific priorities

Computational Biology and Medecine Ubiquitous Computing and Communications Modeling, Simulating and interacting with the real world

Research focused on scientific challenges addressing the needs of society such as

health , environment , agronomy, energy , transports , telecommunications

…

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38 research teams 5 main topics

3 4 1

Applied Mathematics, Computation and Simulation (8 teams)

APICS, COFFEE, CASTOR, McTAO, NACHOS, OPALE, TOSCA, TROPICS • Very high performance computing for computational sciences (national action)

2

Algorithmic, Programming, Software and Architecture (5 teams)

AOSTE, GALAAD, GEOMETRICA, MARELLE, TITANE

Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing (7 teams)

FOCUS, LOGNET, INDES, MAESTRO, COATI, OASIS, DIANA • •

Perception, Cognition, Interaction

AYIN, AXIS, COPRIN, GRAPHIK, LAGADIC, STARS, REVES, WIMMICS, ZENITH Personally Assisted Living (PAL) (national action)

5

Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and Environment (9 teams)

• • ABS, ASCLEPIOS, ATHENA, BIOCORE, DEMAR, MODEMIC, MORPHEME, NEUROMATHCOMP, VIRTUAL PLANTS CardioSense 3D, Cardiac Simulation (national action)

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Exemple of Centre’s Industrial Partnerships

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Start-ups created in Sophia

2010 : 2000 : 1988 : 2005 : 2007: 2000: 2001: 1998: 2003: 2006 : 1990: 1988:

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Training and knowledge dissemination

• Training through research   150 PhD/year and 140 internship/year Activities in computing engineery, training in industrial companies  Most advanced equipement • Post-doctoral training • Welcoming young foreign researchers • • • Post-doctoral periods abroad ERCIM fellowships in European countries Fellowships for industrial post-docs • Teaching      University degree courses (Master) Engineering schools (École Polytechnique, ENS, etc.)

Creation of international master of UNS (Biocomp – Ubinet

)

and with Montpellier, master TIC Santé

Teaching computing and digital science to teachers in secondary school Member of the GIS Ecole Normale supérieur de Lyon – UNS - CNRS INRIA • Organizing courses and seminars  Setting up Inria courses, seminars and working groups  Organizing national and international conferences Gérard GIRAUDON January 23rd, 2013 - 15

International

relationships

(2013 1/2) • Euro méditerranean relations •

Italy

: Joint research projet team with Univ. of Bologna (Focus) (Davide Sangiorgi) •

Greece

: Cooperation Agreement signed with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. (September 2010) – Ioannis Emiris •

Tunisia

: Visit of a delegation led by the managing director to meet our main partners : Enit Lamsin, Ensi, Sup ’Com (March 2010). Strong participation within the framework STIC Tunisia. Many co-publications since 2003. Challenge MED IN Sup ’Com Tunis. (July 2011) •

Algeria

: 1st Algerian-French University/Research Conference. (October 2010). 1 Project STIC Algeria in 2011 and 2012. (project within the framework STIC-Algerie (Prof. D. Cherifi and L. Boumghar from USTHB, Alger). 4 teams involved with some Algerians partners. •

Marocco

: Collaboration with the University of Marrakech, Institut National des Postes et Télécommunications Rabat, 1 permanent researcher in Opale. • • Since 2005, strong involment within the framework EuroMéditerranée 3+3 and International Laboratory for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (LIRIMA), created in 2009.

Pilote of the CoAdvise project (FP7 « People » programme) : fund euromed. PhD theses Leader of the EuroMéditerranée 3+3 programme (Algeria, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia)

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International

relationships

(2013 2/2) • International • 13 associate teams mostly with USA universities (Stanford and Berkeley), but also Chile, Canada and Asia • Teams of the centre are involved in : Inria-CNRS-FAPs cooperation in Brazil, STIC AmSud, Math AmSud, STIC Asia programmes, Inria@SiliconValley, Poncelet France-Russia joint laboratory, LIAMA (joint laboratory with Chinese Academy of Sciences) • 20 researchers and post-doc involved in the Communication and information Research and Innovation Center (CIRIC) in Chile, joint Center (Inria, Universities of Chile) • Since 2006, about 1000 foreign researchers have been welcomed in the research teams.

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• Rate of foreign researchers and students

PhD students Post-doc Foreign researchers Number

99 / 186 (53%) 34 / 47 (73 %) 23 / 165 (14 %)

2011 Nationalities

38 (4 China, 5 chili, 8 India, 11 Marrocco, Tunisa, Algeria, 13 Italy)

Number

103 / 179 (58 %)

2012 Nationalities

41 (Italy, Marrocco, Algeria, Tunisia, India, Chile, China) 19 (2 China, mostly Italian) 8 (mostly italian) 38 / 46 (83 %) 23 (China, Italy) 24 / 157 (15 %) Mostly italian A comparative study wich shows a strong mediterranean population in the research center. May be you in the near future !

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A research centre in Euroregion with an international influence

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