Landmark events
November has been a vibrant month at LINCS. In addition to the regular activities, such as the reading groups and the seminar talks, that continued as per tradition, we had the pleasure of welcoming more new PhD students and postdocs to the laboratory, further enriching our community.
We also hosted a group of students from a Chinese university, accompanied by Calvin, which provided a wonderful opportunity for exchange and dialogue.
The most special moment of the month was undoubtedly the PhD Welcome Day. During this event, PhD students and postdocs affiliated with the Lincs were introduced to the laboratory’s work and mission. They also had the opportunity to present themselves, learn about each other’s research, and share a convivial lunch together, fostering connections and a sense of community.
We’re thrilled to see our LINCS community grow and thrive, and we look forward to more exciting activities in the months to come!
Lincs PhD Welcome Day
The PhD Welcome Day at LINCS, held on November 20, brought together the entire community at the Rose Dieng-Kuntz amphitheater at Telecom Paris for a day of introductions and presentations, with a special focus on welcoming our first-year PhD students. The event began with a warm speech from the director, Daniel Kofman, outlining the laboratory’s mission, spirit, and objectives
Following this, the coordinators of the reading groups Francesca Bassi et François Durand, took the floor to introduce the lab’s annual activities and the digital resources at their disposal.
The heart of the event was the series of presentations from PhD students, starting with first-years, followed by second- and third-year students, and postdocs, interspersed with talks from their supervisors.
This format provided a comprehensive overview of the lab’s research.
Here you have some pictures taken that day :
At this link, you will find the table of ongoing theses. If your thesis is not listed or contains errors, please contact me for corrections : you know my e-mail !
LINCS newcomers
Tiphaine George
Tiphaine is a first-year PhD student at Telecom Paris, under a CIFRE contract in collaboration with Orange Innovation. She holds an engineering degree from ENSTA Paris specializing in Optimization and Operations Research and a master’s degree from the MPRO (Parisian Master of Operations Research). Her PhD focuses on the mathematical modeling of the circular economy applied to smartphones, specifically studying the integration of recycling and refurbishment into smartphones economy. The objective is to study the efficiency of circular economy practices for smartphones and to identify optimal strategies to minimize environmental impact. She is supervised by Marceau Coupechoux at Telecom Paris and Mikaël Touati and Aurélien Bechler at Orange Innovation.
Jules Sintes
Jules Sintes is a first-year PhD candidate in the ARGO team at INRIA Paris. With a background in Material Science and Complex Adaptive Systems, he worked in the industry as an R&D Data Scientist for two years, specializing in the development of autonomous agents for power grid management using supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. His doctoral research focuses on advancing reinforcement learning algorithms in decentralized settings, with a particular emphasis on energy systems applications.
Ashok Krishnan
Ashok Krishnan is a postdoc at Inria, Paris. He works on game and control theoretic analysis of electricity markets, under the supervision of Ana Busic and Hélène Le Cadre (Inria, Lille).
His research has been in the areas of control of wireless networks,queueing and pricing.
Meeting with visiting students from Xidian University, China
On October 30, our colleague Calvin introduced our lab to a group of students participating in an exchange program focused on Education in France. They attended our seminar and we spent some time together over a snack in the Hedy Lamarr room.
What’s coming next!
Coming Seminar talks and Reading groups
Seminar talks
- Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar – Handover frequency in dynamic terrestrial network – December 4
- Gourab Ghatak – Line Cox Processes Part II: Large Scale Automotive Radar Networks and Statistics of Successive Successful Detection – December 11
- Olivier Rioul – How can alpha-information theory formally prove that your sensitive circuits are protected against side-channel attacks? – December 18
Practical Network
- Junepyo JUNG – Heroes: Lightweight Federated Learning with Neural Composition and Adaptive Local Update in Heterogeneous Edge Networks – December 6
Network Theory
- Sanjoy Kumar Jhawar – Sharp phase transitions of discrete and continuum percolation – December 13
Tools, Tips and Tricks
- Leonardo Linguaglossa – Git happens: from first commit sadness, to CI/CD greatness – December 20
What we’ve been doing…
Previous talks at LINCS seminar
- The Squared Kemeny Rule for Averaging Rankings by Dominik Peters – November 6
- Knowledge Graphs Construction using Small Language Models by Camilo Chacón Sartori – November 27
Previous Practical Networks Reading Groups
- Decentralized Federated Policy Gradient with Byzantine Fault-Tolerance and Provably Fast Convergence by Alexandre Pham – October 18
Previous Network Theory Reading Groups
- Optimizing Energy Consumption and Performance in Modern Cloud Systems by Fadel Chbib – November 15
Previous Tools, Tips and Trics Reading Groups
- The functools python module by Marc-Olivier Buob – November 29
- uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver & marimo notebooks: rethinking the notebook to create reproducible notebooks by Alonso Silva – November 8
Lab’s life
Room Hedy Lamarr (4C06)
As you might know, Hedy Lamarr is the winner of the online survey to name our shared scientific exchange room after a female scientist. She was an Austrian-born American actress (1914 – 2000), inventor of the Frequency-hopping spread spectrum, a technique used in GPS, WIFI, and Bluetooth.
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