Research and innovation awards and distinctions

Abril Amaya, an Argentinian student in her 3rd year of a double-degree programme in the nuclear sector at IMT Atlantique, and her team represented France at the I4N international nuclear innovation competition at the International Youth Nuclear Congress - IYNC 2022 - in Koriyama, Japan, with the Navigatom project. Despite some tough competition, they were announced as overall winners!

On 22 November 2022, the French Academy of Sciences awarded the 2022 prizes and medals at an extraordinary ceremony beneath the dome of the Institut de France in Paris. During this event, the research work of Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, head of the Optics department at IMT Atlantique, was rewarded.

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Ghouthi Boukli Hacene was awarded the prize for the best thesis of the Futur & Ruptures 2020 (future and disruptive innovation) Mines-Télécom Fondation program (in joint first place with Laetitia Jeancolas of Télécom SudParis) for his work on the "Processing and learning of deep neural networks on chip" conducted within the Electronics Department at IMT Atlantique and within the framework o

Alexandre Dolgui is the first Frenchman to receive this prestigious distinction. He is head of the Automatic, Production and IT department at IMT Atlantique. Since 1950, this award has been granted to those who, through their research, have made a significant contribution to the progress and influence of industrial systems engineering.

A 2018 L'Oréal-Unesco Fellowship for Audrey Francisco-Bosson Audrey Francisco-Bosson, who earned her PhD in September under the supervision of Gines Martinez-Garcia, received the L'Oréal-Unesco "For Women in Science" French national Fellowship.

The TASC team (Theory, Algorithms, and Constraint Systems), of IMT Atlantique's Department of Automation, Computer-integrated Manufacturing and IT received several awards at the 23rd edition of the International Conference on Principals and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2017) which was held in Melbourne, Australia from August 28 to September 1, 201