Thesis Prizes 2020 : and the winners are…
PhD — 07/07/20On July 3, the 5th edition of the Télécom Paris thesis prize took place. The three winners presented their doctoral work and its prospects in five minutes before a jury from the academic [...]
Public Controversies: a project awarded by France-Berkeley Fund
Faculty Members — 01/07/20The "Public Controversies in Science, Technology and Medicine" project, carried out in collaboration between Télécom Paris and the CSTMS of the University of California [...]
The Inventor's Journey
Innovation — 26/06/20Follow the adventure of the researcher who becomes an inventor in his quest for innovation. The PIV (Intellectual Property and Valorization Pole) publishes a [...]
Facial Recognition: Embodying European Values
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 25/06/20Renaissance Numérique advocates for the creation a strong EU-level standardisation system for facial recognition [...]
The latest version of leading knowledge database, Yago
Data Science & AI — 24/06/20Yago 4 is now based on Wikidata and schema.org and contains a total of 50 millions entities.
Spatial Computing, the next paradigm of HCI
Design interaction perception — 15/06/20With four papers and a workshop accepted at ACM CHI conference, Jan Gugenheimer, Assistant Professor in Human-Computer [...]
Co-investment and network sharing in Europe
Digital Economy — 05/06/20The Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) is an organization bringing together European actors, public (Arcep, CSA…) and private [...]
Health crisis, what safeguards for our fundamental freedoms?
Digital Trust, Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 04/06/20The current pandemic and unprecedented measures taken to slow its spread provide an [...]
[Replay Webinar] What are the ethics of artificial intelligence?
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI — 03/06/20David Bounie, director of the SES department and Winston Maxwell, director of rights and digital at [...]
Postdocs, a key stage in young researchers’ careers
PhD, Data Science & AI — 28/05/20A postdoctoral position, or postdoc, represents a key opportunity for aspiring researchers to broaden their scientific [...]
Wikipedia in the time of the Covid-19 crisis
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 25/05/20Wikipedia's aim is difficult to achieve when it comes to providing real-time information about a crisis marked by uncertainty, as is the case with the current [...]
Best PhD student paper award to Kimia Nadjahi at ICASSP 2020
PhD, Data Science & AI — 06/05/20Kimia Nadjahi received the best student paper award for "Approximate Bayesian Computation with the Sliced-Wasserstein Distance".
Frédéric Grillot nominated to the STC.UMN Innovation Awards
Innovation, Very Large Networks and Systems — 06/05/20Frédéric Grillot a été distingué pour son brevet « Light-Emitting Device Having III-V [...]
Scikit-network: Graph analysis in Python
Data Science & AI — 05/05/20Scikit-network is a Python package for the analysis of large graphs like social networks, Web graphs and relational data.
Covid-19: Consumers' Mobility, Expenditure & Online-Offline Substitution
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 30/04/20This paper investigates a number of general phenomena connected with consumer behaviour in [...]
Operational AI Ethics: the new research initiative of Télécom Paris
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI — 23/04/20Télécom Paris, has just launched its new multidisciplinary research initiative, bringing [...]
Flexible and Context-Specific AI Explainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI — 23/04/20Telecom Paris' Operational AI Ethics initiative has just published its first report [...]
Taking on quantum computer
Faculty Members, Very Large Networks and Systems — 22/04/20What if quantum computers, with their high computing power, were already available: what would happen? How would quantum computing transform [...]
Netherlands Welfare Case Sheds Light on Explainable AI for AML-CFT
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 16/04/20The District Court of the Hague, Netherlands found that the government’s use of artificial [...]
IDEAL project : high-level training for PhD students
PhD — 14/04/20In the context of the ongoing evolution of research careers and the increasing diversity of the society and employers’ needs, IDEAL, an [...]
The Migration of Ethnic Germans from Romania to West Germany
Faculty Members — 07/04/20Dana Diminescu (Department of Sociology, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), made a public lecture at the Center for European and Russian Studies at UCLA (Univ. [...]
On Collaboration: Personal, Educational and Societal Arenas
Faculty Members — 02/04/20An elaborated analysis of what it means to collaborate, particularly in educational contexts : it thereby adopts a [...]
C in your browser: reward by a leading global MOOC provider
Faculty Members, Innovation — 20/03/20In the academic world, teaching and carrying out research often go hand-in-hand. This is especially true for [...]
Coronavirus: Télécom Paris closed, continuity of teaching assured
— 16/03/20All Télécom Paris campuses are closed until further notice, in accordance with instructions from the public authorities. Teaching is provided remotely from this date. Our priority is [...]
Lasers: two papers co-authored by PhD students acclaimed
PhD, Faculty Members — 10/03/20The editor of Scientific Reports (Nature) has selected the best articles on semiconductor lasers. The article [...]
World University Rankings: Télécom Paris very well ranked by QS
Engineers — 04/03/20In the edition published in March 2020, Télécom Paris is very well ranked in two disciplines of the Engineering [...]
#Debating: Télécom Paris wins vs CentraleSupélec!
Engineers — 14/02/20"This house believes that the voting age should be reduced to 16": Five students of the Télécom Paris team won their first debate [...]
SPEIT students visit Télécom Paris
Engineers, International Partnerships — 17/01/20Télécom Paris had the pleasure of welcoming a group of seventeen Chinese students from SJTU-ParisTech Elite Institute of [...]
Hotel Rankings : Best Scientific Paper award for Ulrich Laitenberger et al.
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 15/01/20The "Outstanding Scientific Performance" award from the Sponsors' Association of the European [...]C Programming with Linux : edX Prize for Télécom Paris/IMT and Dartmouth
Innovation — 21/11/19Created by Rémi Sharrock, Associate Professor at Télécom Paris, and Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Professor at the [...]
Data brokers: the middlemen running the markets
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 20/11/19Over the past five years, major digital technology stakeholders have boosted the data broker business. These middlemen collect and combine masses of traces that [...]
Best Paper Award to Iulia Mitrica et al. at EUVIP
PhD, Faculty Members — 18/11/19The paper Cockpit video coding with temporal prediction has received the best paper award at EUVIP Conference. Congrats to the [...]
Best Paper Award for Petr Kuznetsov et al. at DISC 2019
Faculty Members — 13/11/19Petr Kuznetsov, professor at Télécom Paris, has received a best paper award at DISC 2019 (33rd International Symposium on [...]
20 years FDDP with NUS Singapore
Engineers, International Partnerships — 12/11/19On November 10th and 12th was celebrated the 20th anniversary of the French Double Degree Program with NUS at Singapore. The [...]
Télécom Paris relocates to Palaiseau !
Institutional — 12/11/19Télécom Paris moved to Palaiseau, in a brand new building in the École Polytechnique district. This move brings us closer to our partners [...]
4 postdoctoral positions in Machine Learning at Télécom Paris
Data Science & AI — 11/10/19We are currently opening 4 postdoctoral positions in the Department Image, Data and Signal of Télécom Paris, [...]
Summer internship in Finland
Engineers, International Partnerships — 03/09/19Antoine, Jane and Luc, three master’s students from Paris spent their summer in Helsinki working as research interns. Aalto [...]
Data reliability, a key challenge for artificial intelligence
Data Science & AI — 15/07/19The volume of data stored on our planet, which can be collected by a range of equipment and sensors, backed up on the “cloud” or shared on the Internet, has reached a [...]Frédéric Grillot OSA Senior Member
Faculty Members — 10/07/19Frédéric Grillot is a professor specialist in optics at Télécom Paris. OSA (Optical Society) Senior Members are well-established [...]
Best Paper Honorable Mention at ICML 2019
Data Science & AI — 17/06/19The paper entitled A Tail-Index Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Noise in Deep Neural Networks is awarded a Best Paper Honorable [...]
Spinoffs : Télécom Paris top ranked by U-Multirank
— 06/06/19In the U-Multirank dimension for knowledge transfer, as measured by the number of spin-offs founded by universities, two French institutions were the top performing ‘open border’ [...]
Institut Polytechnique de Paris officially established
Institutional — 06/06/19Institut Polytechnique de Paris, encompassing École Polytechnique, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis has now been officially established by [...]
Restricting algorithms to limit their powers of discrimination
Digital Trust — 28/05/19From music suggestions to help with medical diagnoses, population surveillance, university selection and professional recruitment, algorithms are everywhere, and transform our [...]
First graduating cohort in Sino-French Master’s Program
Graduates, Engineers — 01/04/19On March 31, 2019, a graduation ceremony was held on the Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University (ZJU) for the first [...]
SJTU-ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology (SPEIT) celebrates its first graduating class
Graduates, Engineers, International Partnerships — 30/03/19The graduation ceremony of the first graduating class of the [...]
PhD defense Hussein Chouman
PhD — 22/03/19In this thesis, we design the transmission layer using two different modulation formats sets with different bit-rates ranges; and consequently different [...]
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence for Digitalized Industry & Services
— 20/03/19Established for a five-year period with the help of the Fondation Mines-Télécom and the support of Airbus Defence & [...]
IMT awards the Bercy-IMT Grand Innovation Awards to two start-ups, Energysquare and Optiwaves, on the occasion of CES 2019 in Las Vegas
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Data centers: when digital technology transforms a city
PhD, Faculty Members — 20/03/19As the tangible part of the digital world, data centers are flourishing on the outskirts of cities. They are promoted by elected representatives, sometimes contested by [...]
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 5 partner schools for a world-class institution
Institutional — 20/03/19Algorithms: bias, discrimination and equity
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI, Faculty Members — 26/02/19Algorithms are becoming more and more involved in our daily lives, such as decision support algorithms [...]
Robots teaching assistants
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 06/02/19The H2020 ANIMATAS project, launched in January 2018 for a four-year period, seeks to introduce robots with social skills in schools to [...]
From human feelings to digital emotions
Data Science & AI, Faculty Members — 30/01/19Increasing the efficiency of human-computer interactions has created a new field of research: social computing. This [...]
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, a name and brand for a world-class institution
Institutional — 10/01/19The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, and the Secretary of State to the Ministry of [...]An ERC Starting Grant 2018 for Mansoor Yousefi
Faculty Members — 10/01/19The objective of his project is to determine the information-theoretic limits in optical fiber networks and to devise communication [...]Frédéric Grillot SPIE-Optics & Photonics fellow
Faculty Members — 10/01/19The society SPIE has just awarded the title of "Fellow of the SPIE Society" to Frédéric Grillot, Professor at Télécom [...]
How has digital technology changed migrants’ lives?
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 21/12/18Over the past few decades, migrants have become increasingly connected, as have societies in both their home and [...]
Left out of the digital revolution?
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 18/12/18Dominique Pasquier : Individuals without college degrees find it harder to adjust to paperless administrative services, do less [...]Social media and crisis situation: learning how to keep control
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 12/12/18Attacks, riots, natural disasters… all these crises spark wide-spread action among citizens on online [...]The 2018 IEEE Paper Award for Mansoor Yousefi
Faculty Members — 10/12/18Mansoor Yousefi, Assistant Professor within the GTO team at Télécom ParisTech, and Frank R. Kschischang, Professor at the University [...]Silicon and laser: a brilliant pairing!
Faculty Members — 28/11/18Researchers at Télécom ParisTech, in partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), have developed new optical [...]
Four flagship measurements of the GDPR for the economy
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 16/11/18Numerous scandals concerning data theft or misuse that have shaken the media in recent years have highlighted [...]Optical Netwoks : a paper highlighted
Faculty Members — 16/11/18The paper "Alien Wavelengths over Optical Transport Networks" by Cedric Ware et al. has been highlighted as an Editor's Pick by "Journal of [...]RAPPLE : an AI app created by six PhD students
PhD, Data Science & AI — 16/11/18For freestyle rappers, RAPPLE is an app that let the user battle against a virtual opponent in order to come up with new [...]TTool : security, safety and performance for embedded systems
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 12/11/18By combining three areas for assisting the design of embedded systems, the TTool platform is seen as a [...]Agreement Polytechnique-ENSTA-ENSAE-Télécom ParisTech-SudParis
Institutional — 21/10/18As part of the work being conducted under the supervision of Jean-Lou Chameau, a cooperation agreement has been drawn [...]
Mobilimb : Augmenting Mobil Devices with a Robotic Limb
Design interaction perception, Faculty Members — 08/10/18MobiLimb is a research project by Marc Teyssier, Eric Lecolinet (Télécom ParisTech), Gilles Bailly [...]Using hardware to defend software against cyber-attacks
Digital Trust — 05/09/18Software applications are vulnerable to remote attacks via the internet or local networks and are cyber-attackers’ target of [...]Analyzing the development of brain pathologies in children
Faculty Members — 04/09/18Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enables doctors to obtain precise images of human structure and anatomy and the [...]Distributed Computing : Best Paper Award for a PhD student
PhD — 19/06/18Thibault Rieutord, PhD student at Telecom ParisTech, and Yuan He are co-recipient of a Best Student Paper Award for their paper An [...]
Robotics : €15M€ fundraising for Exotec
Startups — 12/06/18Exotec Solutions, a leading French AI robotics start-up bringing top logistics performance to ecommerce, today announced a €15 million [...]2018 Seoul Test of Time Award granted to Fabian Suchanek et al.
Faculty Members — 02/05/18Fabian Suchanek, Professor at Télécom Paris, Gjergji Kasneci (SCHUFA Holding AG), and Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck [...]Coming soon: new ways to interact with machines
Faculty Members — 02/05/18Our electronic and computing devices are becoming smaller, more adapted to our needs, and closer to us physically. From the very [...]