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Miscellaneous

Here is an overview of some other activities that I carry out or have carried out as part of my scientific activity.

Teaching

I have taught a full course of game theory at ENS de Lyon (master students) between 2011 and 2014. In addition, I gave lectures at the University of Grenoble (mathematics) and at ENSIMAG (concurrent programming, distributed algorithms). Since 2015, I have been carrying out oral examinations ("colles") of mathematics to undergraduate student in the selective "classes prépa" (PCSI) at Champollion highschool in Grenoble. I also regularly contribute to the production of online educational resources. For example, I contributed to the MOOC “Environmental Impacts of Digital Technologies” as a reviewer and author of the introductory article.

I also developed a robot (1) serving as a mobile node in an experimental wireless communication network. The original objective was to test several antenna choice learning algorithms. Once the tests were carried out, I reused the robot for educational purposes in popular science workshops for students. The idea was firstly to show the elements of the robot and in particular the associated engineering issues: control and feedback loop for moving in a straight line for example. Secondly, the students had to program small projects on Arduino cards with test cards (such as "traffic light" with 3 LEDs or "approach alarm" with a buzzer and a distance sensor).

  1. The robot was created with the help of Amiqual4home engineers and their machines (laser cutter, welding workshop) on Arduino equipment.

Japan correspondent for international relations at Grenoble INP (2007-2012)

As soon as I arrived in Grenoble, I got involved in tasks of collective interest. As such, I was quickly appointed as correspondent for Japan for Grenoble INP.

As such, I promoted existing partnerships to students (notably at ENSIMAG graduate school) such as a gap year in Japan dedicated to inter-cultural studies, end-of-year internships at the NII (National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo), JSPS programs, etc.

I got also involved in the development of new partnerships and exchange opportunities via Erasmus Mundus (see for example my presentation at Hokkaido University), or JSPS programs. For this purpose, I carried out a 2-month stay in 2009 (mainly based in Tsukuba and Kyoto) (report).

I also participated, with the international relations teams of two establishments (ENSIMAG and Kyoto University), in the establishment of a double degree agreement. Despite the constraints due to the differences in curricula and academic calendars (1) between the two countries, it was a rich and fruitful experience highly supported by the ENSIMAG engineering students demands. During this work, I also tutored a student, Pierre-Louis Poirion during his stay at Kyoto University for his master study.

  1. The academic year starts in April in Japan and September un France.

Technology transfer

Some of my work was the subject in 2006 of European patent EP1617692A1 entitled "Method and Equipment for allocating data rates to mobile radiocommunication terminals" filed by France Telecom R&D and Inria. My co-inventors are Jean-Marc Kelif, Jérôme Galtier, Eitan Altman and Benoît Fourestié.

Miscellaneous

I participated, with two colleagues in charge of science popularization, in a hearing lead by two financial inspectors as part of their Inria inspection mission in January 2021. Their goal was to assess Inria's economic impact as part of the dissemination of digital scientific and technological culture (COP indicators D1(1) and D2(2)).

  1. Number of visitors in joint actions with the CCST, including Universcience
  2. Number of students in schools who attended a presentation by a member of an Inria project team.

I joined a collective response formulated with other Inria colleagues to the public consultation on net neutrality organized in 2010 by the State Secretariat in charge of Foresight and of the Development of the digital economy.