Imourane Abdoulaye is back after 3 months of DocWalker mobility at UVA!

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Published on July 21, 2025 – Updated on July 21, 2025
Dates

on the July 21, 2025

Location

Campus SophiaTech

Interview

Meet Imourane ABDOULAYE, a 3rd year PhD candidate at the LEAT laboratory (EGDE team)! He spent 3 months at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, USA), fully funded by the RISE Academy's DocWalker program.
 

Extract:

How did your international mobility project start?

My mobility project began when I met Professor Rich Nguyen during his two-month visit (May 15 - July 15, 2024) to the LEAT laboratory in Sophia Antipolis. He collaborated on deploying a rain sensor network in Nice and presented a seminar on FloodWatch, a project aiming to predict floods using advanced sensor networks and data analysis. Later, when the DocWalker program was announced, I saw a great opportunity to visit Prof. Rich Nguyen’s team at UVA and work together on research topics that closely align with my own. I discussed the idea with my advisors, who were very supportive, and we quickly established contact with Prof. Rich to agree on my tasks and the most suitable period for my stay.