April 14, 2015 Sebastian Hitziger Defended his PhD on “Modeling the Variability of Electrical Activity in the Brain”. Supervisors Théo Papadopoulo and Maureen Clerc.

Jury members : Laure Blanc-Feraud (CNRS- I3S), Bruno Torresani (Aix-Marseille University), Alain Rakotomamonjy (Insa Rouen), Christian Benar (Aix-Marseille University), Jean-Louis Divoux (Neuromedics), Maureen Clerc (Thesis co-Director, Athena team, Inria Sophia) and Theo Papadopoulos (Thesis co-Director, Athena team, Inria Sophia).

Maureen Clerc, a researcher in the Athena project team at Inria, has been awarded the Pierre Faurre Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in recognition of her work on the modelling and interpretation of electrical signals in the brain.

Rachid Deriche, director of research and head of the project team at Athena Research Center Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée has received the title of Honorary Doctor (honoris causa) from the University of Sherbrooke. The title was awarded on September 20 at the University of Sherbrooke.

Emmanuel Caruyer : AFRIF Best PhD thesis award 2013 for his work “Q-space diffusion MRI: Acquisition and Signal Processing” team Athena under the direction of Rachid Deriche. He received the award thesis AFRIF 2013 to RFIA Conference 2014, June 30 to July 4, 2014 in Rouen.

June 24, 2014 Romain Trachel defended his PhD on “Brain-computer interaction protocols for enhancing visuo-spatial attention performance in humans”. Supervisors Maureen Clerc and Thomas Brochier.

Jury members: Dr Marco Congedo (CNRS, Gipsa-lab), Dr Franck Vidal (CNRS-AMU, LNC), Dr Jean Lorenceau (UPMC/CNRS/INSERM), Dr Fabien Lotte (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest), Maureen Clerc (Thesis co-Director, Athena team, Inria Sophia) and Thomas Brochier (Thesis co-Director, CNRS, INT, Marseille).

Title : Bayesian tracking of neural activity in biomagnetic data

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a non-invasive brain imaging technique measuring the weak magnetic field due to neural activity. The estimation of the neural activity from this data involve the solution of a highly ill-posed inverse problem.
In this talk, I will present a probabilistic approach for the solution of this problem: a particle filter is implemented to realize a Bayesian tracking of the neural sources in a dipolar model framework. The effects of different cortical constraints on this method are also investigated.

Rachid Deriche, Inria Research Director, has just won the EADS Grand Prize (Computer Science) awarded by the French Academy of Sciences for all his achievements. This award recognizes both the scientific excellence of his contributions and his constant collaboration with cutting edge industrial partners.

September 11, 2013 Sylvain Merlet defends his PhD on “Compressive sensing in diffusion MRI”. Supervisor Rachid Deriche.

Jury members : R. Verma (UPenn, Reviewer), C. Barillot (Visages team, Inria Rennes, Reviewer), N.Paragios (ECP, Paris), M. Descoteaux (University of Sherbrooke, CA), L. Blanc-Feraud
(Morpheme team, Inria Sophia) and R. Deriche (Thesis Director, Athena team, Inria Sophia).

July 18, 2012 Emmanuel Caruyer defends his PhD on  “Q-space Diffusion MRI: Acquisition and Signal Processing”. Supervisor Rachid Deriche.