Category Archives: Prizes

Guillaume Dalle was awarded the 2023 AMIES PhD prize

Sponsored by the scientific societies SFdS, SMAI and SMF, the prix de thèse maths-entreprises (maths-industry PhD prize) rewards each year researches in mathematics with a strong industrial impact. In 2023, it was awarded to Guillaume Dalle, a former CERMICS PhD student. His PhD thesis, supervised by Yohann De Castro and Axel Parmentier, was carried out in partnership with the French… Read more »

Dylan Dronnier was awarded a 2021 Paris-Est Sup PhD prize

Dylan Dronnier received on November 16th 2022 the Prix spécial « Territoire » de la Communauté d’agglomération Paris-Vallée de la Marne for his PhD thesis on “Epidemics models in infinite-dimension and optimal vaccination strategies”. Dylan Dronnier is a former student of Ecole des Ponts, and completed his PhD under the co-supervision of Jean-François Delmas (CERMICS) and Pierre-André Zitt (LAMA).

Axel Parmentier was awarded the 2022 Robert Faure Prize

Axel Parmentier won the first prize in the Robert Faure Prize, awarded every three years to a researcher under 35 years old. Created in honor of Professor Robert Faure, a pioneer of Operations Research in France, the Robert Faure Prize aims to encourage an original contribution in the field of Operations Research and Decision Support. Particular attention is given to… Read more »

Guillaume Dalle was awarded the 2021 Pasquet Prize

Fondation des Ponts awards the Pasquet prize to the “best” student who has graduated from an engineering program. Guillaume DALLE (IPEF engineer) is preparing his thesis in the Optimization team on prediction and planning problems in the railway system, with approaches that combine machine learning and operations research. He was congratulated for his thoroughness, his maturity, his excellence and his… Read more »

Louis Bouvier was co-awarded the 2021 ROADEF Master’s Thesis

The ROADEF RO/AD Master’s Thesis Prize aims to highlight the research of Master’s students devoted to Operational Research and Decision Analysis. Louis Bouvier, a student in the Master 2 MVA program at ENS Paris-Saclay and École des Ponts ParisTech, was awarded a prize for his dissertation entitled ‘Large Neighborhood Search and Structured Prediction for the Inventory Routing Problem‘. The jury… Read more »

Amaury Hayat was awarded the 2021 FORBES 30 Under 30

Forbes 30 Under 30 is a set of lists of people under 30 years old issued annually by Forbes magazine and some of its regional editions. The American lists recognize 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in twenty industries each. Asia and Europe also each have ten categories for a total of 300 each, while Africa has a… Read more »

Grégoire Ferré was awarded the PhD prize from Ecole des Ponts

Grégoire Ferré was a PhD student at CERMICS from October 2016 to September 2019, and defended his PhD in November 2019. He worked on large deviation theory and its application in statistical physics, both from theoretical and numerical viewpoints. He now is a research associate at Capital Fund Management.

Amaury Hayat was awarded the 2020 Prize of chancellerie des universités de Paris

Amaury Hayat, permanent researcher at CERMICS, received the 2020 Prize of chancellerie des universités de Paris, category “sciences”. These prizes reward the academic and scientific quality of PhD theses defended during the previous twelve-month period, in the fields of law and political sciences, economics and management, medicine, sciences, pharmacy, arts and humanities. There were 9 prizes in sciences for 2020. Amaury… Read more »

Grégoire Ferré was awarded the PhD prize from the doctoral school MSTIC of University Paris East

Grégoire Ferré was a PhD student at CERMICS from October 2016 to September 2019, and defended his PhD in November 2019. He worked on large deviation theory and its application in statistical physics, both from theoretical and numerical viewpoints. He now is a research associate at Capital Fund Management.  

Nicolas Pignet was awarded the Paul Caseau PhD prize in numerical simulation and is one of the three nominees of the AMIES PhD prize

Nicolas Pignet was a PhD student at CERMICS from November 2016 to October 2019, supported by a CIFRE PhD Fellowship with EDF R&D. He defended his PhD in October 2019 on hybrid high-order methods for nonlinear solid mechanics. Nicolas Pignet devised and analyzed new discretization schemes, and applied them to hyperelasticity, plasticity, and contact/friction problems. He implemented his work in… Read more »