CentraleSupélec

CentraleSupélec strives for becoming a worldwide recognized teaching institution. To achieve this goal, it relies on excellence in basic science and applied sciences such as maths, physics, IT, engineer sciences, energetics, process, mechanics and industrial engineering.

Research

Research Published on 10/30/2019

At the 23rd International Conference "System Theory, Control and Computing ICSTCC 2019", PhD student Dory Merhy from the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) received the Best Paper Award for the paper: "Ellipsoidal set-membership state estimation for descriptor systems."

Dory Mehry defended his thesis on October 24th at CentraleSupélec/L2S for which he also obtained a European label.

Here on the picture, left, with the General Chair of the conference, Prof. Radu-Emil Precup.

 

 

 

 

Research Published on 10/28/2019

Vikass Monebhurrun of the Physics and Engineering of Electromagnetism (PIEM), Laboratory of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Paris, is the 2019 recipient of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) International Award with the mention: "For significant contributions to the development of international standards related to the fields of antennas and propagation".

This award is given annually to recognize an individual IEEE-SA member who has made an extraordinary contribution to the establishment of IEEE-SA as a world leader in standardization. The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held on November 8, 2019 at Hyatt New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

 

 

Research Published on 10/08/2019

A team of scientists from the GeePs laboratory, SATIE, Imperial College London and Stanford University, with the support of DARGATECH, a water and renewable energy engineering company, has just published an article devoted to the modelling of a solar water pump installed in the village of Gogma in Burkina Faso.

A validated model of a photovoltaic water pumping system for off-grid rural communities

Abstract: "The low electrification rate in rural sub-Saharan Africa prevents access to energy services which are essential to improve living conditions. One of these energy services is electrified water pumping, which is particularly relevant for these areas where water access continues being a significant challenge. Pumping systems powered by photovoltaic energy have emerged as an interesting solution in off-grid areas. This article presents a model of photovoltaic water pumping system (PVWPS) for providing domestic water to off-grid rural communities. The model simulates the pumped flow rate and the water level in the storage tank from the climatic data (irradiance, ambient temperature) and the profile of water collection by the users of the system. The modelling of the different stages of the energy conversion chain and a method for identifying the unknown parameters of PVWPS are presented in this article. The model is applied to a pilot PVWPS situated in a rural village of Burkina Faso. The comparison between the measurements performed on the system and the model outputs allows to validate the model experimentally. Results indicate that the model permits to accurately simulate the water height in the tank both when climatic data from local sensors and from satellite are inputted in the model. The model could therefore be applied to other off-grid areas to perform techno-economic optimization and size new PVWPS as well as to evaluate the performances of existing PVWPS. The originalities of this work include the consideration of the water collection profile as a model input and the monitoring of a PVWPS in a rural village of Sub-Saharan Africa, an area where no continuous measurements on these systems has been performed, to the best knowledge of the authors. Further, the comparison of the impact of inputting satellite climatic data instead of measured ones on the PVWPS model accuracy is also a novel contribution."

Research Published on 06/27/2019

Seminar with Professor Rodney Fox from Iowa University planned on June, the 27 th on our Paris-saclay campus. He is Anson Marston Distinguished Professor in Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Iowa State University.

Topic: Kinetic-Based Hyperbolic Two-Fluid Models.

Research Published on 03/25/2019

The Paris-Saclay campus was the setting for a magnificent day dedicated to space on March 8, which brought together the CentraleSupélec community (alumni, students, professors, researchers) around Ms. Gwynne Shotwell (see photo opposite) president of SpaceX. In the afternoon, presentations and discussions of major space projects led by alumni and students took place, including Thales Alenia Space, European Space Agency - ESA, Airbus Group Inc. Defense and Space, CentraleSupélec's CubeSat laboratory and space startups founded by our alumni students.

 

Research Published on 02/26/2019

The School is organising on March, the 13th the 'Space & Shake' meetings that will bring together the entire space community of Centrale Supélec (alumni, students, professors, researchers) around Ms. Gwynn Shotwell, president of SpaceX. In the afternoon, presentations and discussions of major space projects by alumni and students will take place with Thales Alenia Space, European Space Agency - ESA, Airbus Group Inc. Defense and Space, CentraleSupélec’s CubeSat Laboratory and space startups founded by our students-alumni.

Research Published on 11/29/2018

List of Highly Cited Researchers 2018 has been released and researcher Merouane Debbah is spotted. Congrats to him!

The award recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of many highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics.

Research Published on 06/19/2018

The work of our Professor Fragkiskos Malliaros from our CVN laboratory along with Konstantinos Skianis (Ph.D. Student at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)  and Michalis Vazirgiannis (Professor at LIX, Ecole Polytechnique) on graph-based text categorization received the best paper award at the the Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics held in New Orleans, USA, June 1 to June 6, 2018.

Title of the paper: 'Fusing Document, Collection and Label Graph-based Representations with Word Embeddings for Text Classification'.

Summary: With the rapid growth of social media and networking platforms, the available textual resources have been increased. Text categorization refers to the machine learning task of assigning a document to a set of two or more predefined categories (or classes). A particularly well-known application is the one of sentiment analysis, i.e., the process of computationally identifying and categorizing opinions expressed in a piece of text (e.g., positive, negative, or neutral). The goal of our work is to use graph mining techniques to enhance the task of text categorization. Building upon the fact that graphs can be used to represent textual content, in our work we propose a graph-based framework for text categorization. In particular, we extract graphs from text, where the nodes correspond to terms and the edges capture term co-occurrence relationships –- addressing the term-independence assumption widely considered in many natural language processing tasks. Our methods outperform existing text categorization approaches in various applications (e.g., subjectivity detection and opinion mining in movie reviews), and could further be applied in other text analytics domains, such as the ones of information retrieval and web search.

 

 

Research Published on 02/22/2018

Gustave Roussy Institute and CentraleSupélec have signed an agreement to strengthen their partnership in the field of big data and artificial intelligence in cancer research.

Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, came to Gustave Roussy on Friday February 9 to meet the researchers. They pointed to the crucial role of big data and artificial intelligence in cancer research. It materialized in the signing of a framework agreement between CentraleSupélec and Gustave Roussy in the presence of the Minister. During her visit to the building dedicated to molecular medicine, they also shared on integrative research. As an integrated center for research, care and education, Gustave Roussy promotes the alliance of fundamental, translational and clinical research to bring therapeutic innovation to all its patients at all levels.

The framework agreement which was signed in the presence of the Minister by Prof. Alexander Eggermont, Managing Director of Gustave Roussy and Estelle Iacona, Deputy Director General in Education and Research, formalizes an already active collaboration between the two institutions. Engaged in a strong partnership policy, the two institutions share a common ambition for their development prospects in the interdisciplinary field of medical research, more specifically that of cancer research.

This agreement sets a framework to further unite the forces in training and research of CentraleSupélec and Gustave Roussy. This is to promote interdisciplinarity and to develop joint research projects and actions in the various spheres of laboratories expertise.
Indeed, medical research, particularly in the field of cancer, covers a wide scientific area as to the diversity and complexity of the systems studied, the understanding of the phenomena that characterize them and the formulation of the scientific questions that arise from them. It therefore calls for the full range of scientific and technological disciplines and skills, from exact and experimental sciences to human and social sciences.

The collaboration between Gustave Roussy and CentraleSupélec has several objectives:

  • encourage the regular exchange of information on the activities of both institutions and improve dissemination of knowledge
  • develop research around concrete projects; the teams will collaborate on projects such as Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Radiomics, or even 3D images
  • strengthen the skills acquisition of CentraleSupélec students
  • promote cooperation in transfer and valorization for socio-economic applications
  • encourage an "entrepreneurship" approach around the theme of health data and cancer treatment valorization.

This rapprochement will also result in courses participation, joint seminars, or even joint education at the crossroads of medicine and engineering sciences.

The Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has acknowledged the rapprochement between the two institutions and the interdisciplinarity that links them in their objective of serving research and fighting against cancer.

Research Published on 02/02/2018

Alesandra Cervino from Enterome and Frédéric Magoulès (MICS laboratory) organize the fifth edition of the P-MAG conference on February 2nd on Gif campus.

Metagenomics is the study of the genetic material contained in environmental samples. With recent advances in sequencing technologies, the field has literally exploded and contributed largely to a better understanding of the role of bacteria in environmental samples such as soil and ocean water as well as human health. In particular, the gut microbiome has revealed itself to be a key player in maintaining human health and wellbeing. Whether using a single gene “16s” based approach or random shotgun sequencing, large amounts of sequencing data are generated for each sample and analysis of such data is challenging with the need for new computational tools and methods.

Paris has been at the heart of shotgun based metagenomics, with pioneering work being performed at MetaGenoPolis, INRA. To maintain its leadership position in the field and to ensure an open communication amongst bioinformaticians and biostatisticians working with microbiome data across industry and academia, the P-MAG group was created in 2014. The group currently includes over 40 members that meet about twice a year to hear about research going on in Paris and also some key international speakers. The managing committee is made up of academics (Institut Pasteur, MGP) and industry scientists (Luxia Scientific, Enterome).

The fifth edition of P-MAGwill bring together computer scientists, statisticians and researchers working on microbiome data and primarily based in the Paris region.

 

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