Young Professional / WiCAS & DEICASS Round table

A dedicated panel discussion will he held around the following topics:

  • How important is communication in a team?
  • Differences between industry and academia.
  • Differences and challenges when you are a woman.

With the following invited speakers and keynotes :

Mashiul Huq

Mashiul Huq is a PhD researcher at Lorraine University. Originally from Bangladesh and first came to France for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Program DENSYS. Currently pursuing hist PhD at Institut Jean Lamour focusing on energy harvesting and smart electronic interfaces. His research interests are photovoltaic and thermoelectric small scale energy harvesting. Previously, he worked at Siemens as Executive Engineer.

Florence sedes

Florence Sedes is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sciences, Toulouse 3, in the research area of data science. Florence is active in database and information system research since 1987. She has published over one hundred papers, books and book chapters and has been leading international, European and national projects on personal (meta)data privacy and management, CCTV and forensic, IoT and security, geospatial and indoor/outdoor data, and social networks, with applications via deep/machine learning for alert, spam detection, social emotion and interaction. Her research interests include modelling, developing, evaluating, and characterizing (big) data systems and techniques from both problem driven and technique driven perspect ives. She has been heavily involved in designing data sets and platforms in order to enable assessment of the various contributions, software and systems of our community. Her research addresses gender imbalance and biases in AI.

David gegonne

David Gégonne is the Executive Vice President of Grand Nancy Innovation, helping innovation and entrepreneuship in the region. He also teaches at the ICN Business School and Université de Lorraine in the topics of Marketing territorial and Urban Engineering.

Sandrine Bernardini

Sandrine Bernardini is an Associated Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France). She received her engineering degree in materials and microelectronics in 2001 (INSA-Lyon, France) and in 2004 her Ph.D. degree at Provence University, Marseille. From 2005 to 2007, she engaged as Associate Researcher at the University of Manchester (UK) for high-k dielectric structural and electrical characterizations. In 2008, she joined the MicroSensor Group at the Institute of Materials Microelectronic Nanosciences of Provence (IM2NP Marseille, France). Her current research interest focuses on the nanomaterials and their sensing properties for environmental flexible sensor applications. She is a member of scientific committees of international conferences and the Women in Engineering representative of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurements French Chapter.

Moderated by WiCAS/DEICAS and YP chairs:

Young Professional / WiCAS & DEICASS poster session and social reception

All conference students, as well as local students from the Master EEA (Master in Electronics, Electrical Energy and Automation) at Université de Lorraine with papers accepted will be invited to participate. They will have three minutes to present their work in front of their poster.

This will be done during YP and WICAS social reception.

A prize will be awarded at the conference closing ceremony for the best 3-minutes poster presentation. Invited speakers and YP & WICAS chairs will form the jury.

WiCAS/DEICAS and YP chairs: