DocWalker Program

DocWalker is a PhD International Mobility Program designed to enable doctoral students from Université Côte d'Azur, within the scope of the DS4H Graduate School / RISE Academy, to undertake short stays in academic research laboratories abroad.

2025

Laureate	Thesis director	Laboratory	Project	Host laboratory
Imourane ABDOULAYE	Cécile Belleudy Laurent Rodriguez Benoît Miramond	LEAT	Integrating Tiny Embedded Neural Networks and Federated Learning for Data prediction in Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks	University of Virginia Machine Intelligence Research Association (MIRA) ETATS-UNIS
Claire ESTAGNASIE	Anthony Hussenot	GREDEG	New forms of remote work organization in the Chilean context of contemporary digital mutations	Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Millennium Center on the Evolution of Work (MNEW) CHILI
Mariam GRIGORYAN	Vincent Vandewalle, Inria David Rouquié, Bayer	LJAD/Inria, équipe MAASAI	Multi-Omics and Imaging Data Integration for Determining the Point of Departure (POD) of Chemical Compounds	BROAD Institute Carpenter–Singh Lab ETATS-UNIS
Dalia HAREB	Jean Martinet, i3S Benoit Miramond, LEAT	i3S/LEAT	Vision neuromorphique implémentée sur du matériel embarqué.	University of Groningen Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Cognition PAYS-BAS
Aurora ROSSI	David Coudert	Inria, équipe COATI	Applications of temporal graph neural networks	Tokyo Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science, School of Computing JAPON
Tomasz STANCZYK	Francois Bremond	Inria, équipe STARS	Multi-object tracking incorporating robust re-identification of pedestrians, handling challenging occlusions and ambiguities	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL ENAC- IIC - VITA Laboratory SUISSE

2024

Laureate	Thesis director	Laboratory	Project	Host laboratory
Sara FRUSONE	Vincente Zarzoso	i3S	Computational modeling of spatio-temporal dispersion electrograms in persistent atrial fibrillation	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Computational Cardiac Modeling group Allemagne
Victor GUILLOT	Edi Assoumou	Mines Paris PSL	Analyse environnementale des échanges d'hydrogène entre l'Afrique du Nord et l'Europe : couplage TIMES et ACV	ETH Zurich Department of Chemestry and Applied Biosciences Suisse
Olivier MALAFRONTE	Sabrina Loufrani	GRM	Executive development with AI-mediated respectful inquiry	University of Surrey Royaume-Uni
Nicolás OCAMPO	Elena Cabrio Serena Villata	i3S	Argument-based counter-narratives generation tonfight online hate speech	Fondazione Bruno Kessler Italie
Lionel TOMBAKDJIAN	Fabien Ferrero	LEAT	Measurement and experimentations with beamforming antennas and satellite simulator	ESTEC - European Space Agency Pays-Bas

2023

Laureate	Thesis director	Laboratory	Project	Host laboratory
Tarek BOUAZZA	Tarek Hamel	i3S	Synthèse d’observateurs pour les systèmes à symétrie et applications aux systèmes robotiques aériens	Systems Theory and Robotics Group, The Australian National University, Australia
Simone EBERT	Bruno Cessac	Inria	How dynamical synapses shape spatiotemporal receptive fields	Center for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, Universidad Valparaiso, Chile
David LOISEAUX	Frédéric Cazals	Inria	Analyse topologique robuste de données multi-paramétrées issues de l’histologie et la cytométrie	Mathematics Department, Columbia University, USA
Tomas OPES DE OLIVEIRA	Tarek Hamel	i3S	Observer design for systems with symmetry and applications to aerial robotic systems	Systems Theory and Robotics Group, The Australian National University, Australia
Francesco POSITANO	Robert Staraj	LEAT	Design of a reconfigurable antennas for adaptive communications or RF energy harvesting systems	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

2022

Laureate	Thesis Director	Laboratory	Thesis topic	Host Laboratory
Amélie GRUEL	Jean Martinet	i3S	Spiking neural networks for event-based stereovision	Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla, Spain
Matej HLADIS	Sébastien Fiorucci	ICN	Deep learning, machine learning, chemistry, olfaction, perception	Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA
Max MEUNIER	Jesus Zuniga Perez	CRHEA	GaN-based single-photon emitters at telecom wavelengths: electrical injection and room-temperature operation	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore