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Congratulations to Raphaël TRONCY, Assistant Professor in the Multimedia Dept. and his team (Giuseppe Rizzo, Julien Plu, Ahmad Assaf, Jose Luis Redondo Garcia), who won the First Prize of the Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC 2015 sponsored by Elsevier with their project and application "3cixty @ Expo Milano 2015"! This is the most prestigious award for the Semantic Web community and EURECOM is now the only organization who has won it twice within its 10 years existence (in 2012 and in 2015). 

Complete success for EURECOM at the 8th edition of the K-CAP Conference (International Conference on Knowledge Capture) held in Palisades, United States, from October 7-10, 2015.

- Best Paper Award for "The Nature of News Concentric Semantic Snapshots" (Redondo Garcia, José Luis; Rizzo, Giuseppe; Troncy Raphael)

- Best poster for "The 3cixty Knowledge Base for Expo Milano 2015: Enabling Visitors to Explore the City" (Giuseppe Rizzo, O. Corcho, Troncy Raphael Plu, Julien Hermida, Ballesteros Juan Carlos; Ahmad Assaf).

In total, about 80 people attended the conference and 82 papers were submitted. The acceptance rate was 29%, that is to say 34 papers accepted at all!

On Friday, October 9th, at 17:30, David Gesbert, Professor and Head of Department "Mobile Communications", will participate in the Round Table "Tomorrow smart objects" as part of the Science Festival, to be held at the "CIV" Valbonne.

The panel will be moderated by David LOWE of the TV show "On n’est pas que des Cobayes" - France 5. Admission is free within the limits of available places.

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Congratulations to Davide Balzarotti, Assistant-Professor in the Department "Networking and Security" for his HDR (french appellation for "Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches") defended on September, 30rd, 2015, on the following subject of "Web Application Security".
The Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches "sanctions the recognition of the high scientific level of the candidate, the original character of his approach in a field of science, its ability to master a research strategy in a sufficiently broad science or technology and its capacity to supervise young researchers. "

Congratulations to the new Dr. Andrei COSTIN, of the Networking and Security Department (supervised by Davide Balzarotti and Aurélien Francillon) who successfully defended his thesis!
His PhD topic was the "Large Scale Security Analysis of Embedded Devices’ Firmware". It was the ninth PhD thesis of the year at EURECOM.

The 23rd class of EURECOM engineers will be honored on September 18, 2015 for the graduation ceremony, patroned by Dr. Christoph Grote, CEO of BMW Research & Technology at BMW. 

Congratulations to Julien PLU, Giuseppe RIZZO and Raphaël TRONCY ! They won the "Open Knowledge Extraction Challenge Award" for their article "A Hybrid Approach For Entity Recognition And Linking" at l'ESWC 2015, 12th European Semantic Web Conference, Open Extraction Challenge, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31-June 4, 2015.

After Marrakech in 2013 and Lisbon in 2014, EUSIPCO will travel to Nice in 2015. 

The conference will be held at the Nice Congress Center, in Nice, France, and is hosted by EURECOM in collaboration with partners of the campus SophiaTech (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, INRIA and CNRS I3S). The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications.

Congratulations to Clémentine Maurice, Phd CIFRE EURECOM/Technicolor, and Aurélien Francillon, professor in the Networking and Security Department, and to their co-authors who have won a Best Paper Award for their article "C5: Cross-cores cachecovert channel", at DIMVA 2015 (12th International Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment), which took place in July 9-10 in Milano, Italy.

David Gesbert, Professor and Head of the Mobile Communications Department at EURECOM, has obtained a scholarship ERC Advanced Grant for research he conducted on wireless communication systems beyond the standard 5G. A promising funding that will allow to deeply influence the mobile communications of the future, and strengthens the quality of research conducted at EURECOM.

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