The Best Thesis Award from the Transport and Logistics Working Group for Hamza Ben-Ticha, PhD from Mines Saint-Étienne, with a thesis prepared at the Centre of Microelectronics in Provence.
Creation of the “Data Analysis in Lyon-Saint-Étienne” group.
The ATPulseGliome project: “expertise in bioelectronics and health”.
Scientific nomination and hosting of international speakers.
Scientific Award
Hamza Ben-Ticha, PhD from Mines Saint-Étienne, was awarded the Best Thesis Award from the Transport and Logistics Working Group (GT2L) of the GDR Operational Research. He defended his thesis at the end of 2017 under the supervision of Nabil Absi, Dominique Feillet, and Alain Quilliot, LIMOS, Manufacturing Sciences and Logistics department.
This award recognizes the best thesis in the field defended in France in 2017 and 2018, on the theme “Vehicle routing optimization problems with information from the road network”. Hamza had already received an award for his presentation at the last ROADEF conference.
Vehicle routing optimization problems are very important in logistics, particularly for the transport of goods in urban environments. A very vast body of scientific literature has developed over the last 50 years to best solve these problems, which are known to be very difficult. In his thesis, Hamza Ben Ticha explores novel ways of approaching them, motivated by the abundant amounts of data available today.
Creation of the SciDoLyse group
The “Data Analysis in Lyon-Saint-Étienne” group aims to bring together researchers working in machine learning, mathematical, computational and Bayesian statistics, signal processing, data mining, optimization, etc. It also aims to improve their mutual knowledge to facilitate collaborations.
The SciDoLyse group will meet regularly for scientific presentations and meetings. The first one takes place on January 24 in the amphitheater of the CNRS delegation in Villeurbanne; it will be dedicated to the presentation of the participating entities.
Contacts: Olivier Roustant, Rodolphe Le Riche, Fayol Institute
“Glioblastoma, the electrical treatment?”
The School is leading the ATPulseGliome project, in collaboration with the University of Limoges, the Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone in Marseille, and with funding from the EDF Foundation. The team of researchers from the Centre of Microelectronics in Provence, led by Rodney O’Connor and Hermanus Ruigrok, Bioelectronics dept, is “testing an approach using electric fields to find new types of treatment and fight brain cancers.”
“AtPulseGliome is developing a technique that would kill glioblastomas via weak but regular electronic pulses.”
Find the presentation of this research on the I’MTech website.
read also: Teams from the G.C. Provence campus of Mines Saint-Etienne mobilize for the fight against brain cancers
Nomination
Johan Debayle, professor at the SPIN center, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the French Association for Pattern Recognition and Interpretation, which works for the development of research and the promotion of scientific work in these fields; AFRIF is the French section of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), of which he is a member.
Scientific seminars at the Centre for Biomedical and Healthcare Engineering
January 29 – Data science applied to healthcare:
– “Prediction of patient length of stay in Intensive Care Units“, Igor Peres, researcher in Mechanical Engineering, PUC Rio, Brazil.
January 24 – Biomechanics & Soft Tissue Biomechanics themes:
– “Problem-specific DIC methods for shape and deformation measurements in biomechanics“, Prof. Katia Genovese, Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy;
– “Soft tissue biomechanics: In vitro, in vivo and in silico trials for trauma prevention and repair”, Dr Nele Famaey, KU Leuven, Belgium.
