EURECOM overview

1. A Graduate School and
a Research Center in
Communication Systems
Ulrich FINGER

2. INTERNATIONAL (1)
A network of prestigious academic partners:
Telecom ParisTech, EPFL (Lausanne), EPFZ (Zurich),
Politecnico di Torino, Helsinki University of Technology,
Technische Universität München, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU)
Multinational industrial partners:
Swisscom, CISCO, ST-Ericsson, BMW, Symantec …
A multilingual environment:
100 % classes in English
70 % foreign professors
60 % foreign students
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3. INTERNATIONAL (2)
THE STUDENTS’ SCHOOLS OF ORIGIN
The Class of 2010
TELECOM ParisTech
Politecnico di Torino
Télécom Bretagne
Télécom SudParis
TKK Helsinki
TU Munich
TU Darmstadt
NTNU Trondheim
NYU/Brooklyn Inst.
and also …
Beijing, Nanjing and Fundan Universities, SupCom Tunis, University of Cracow,
Pondichery University, Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University …
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4. THE CLASS OF 2010: NATIONALITIES
Russian Tunisian
Norwegian 1% 2% German
2% 2%
Moroccan
5% Chinese
Serb 13%
1% Colombian
1%
Italian
14%
Finnish
4%
Indian
15%
French
33%
Franco-Slovak
1% Franco-English
1%
Franco-Moroccan Franco-Finnish
1% 1%
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5. INDUSTRIAL FOCUS (1)
EIG (Economic Interest Grouping), founded by EPFL
and Télécom Paris with industrial partners:
Swisscom, France Télécom-Orange, Thales, SFR, STEricsson,
Sharp, CISCO, BMW Group research & technology, SAP,
Symantec, Monaco Telecom
Part-time lecturers from industry.
Master thesis on company location.
Research contracts, industrial affiliates program
Located in the number one Science Park in Europe in
the field of telecommunications
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6. EURECOM MEMBERS
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7. ORGANIZATION (1)
THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS
NETWORKING AND SECURITY
Telecommunications network design, operation and management,
network interconnection, broadband communications, network
security, intelligent networks...
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS
Content analysis and indexing, image and video segmentation,
classification, object detection and tracking, speaker segmentation
and identification, face recognition, biometry, watermarking …
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Radio transmission, digital cellular networks, wireless data
transmission, radio local area networks, mobility management in
networks...
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8. ORGANIZATION (2)
THE TELECOM PARIS RESEARCH DEPARTMENTS
SYSTEMS ON CHIP
System-on-a-Chip Design, Design space exploration, Support for
refinement towards hardware and software implementations,
Specification, modeling and formal verification of SoCs, Hardware
attacks against crypto-systems, countermeasure
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9. ORGANIZATION (3)
EURECOM IN SIZE
Students
160 Masters
60 PhDs
Around 120 staff members
Faculty: 21
Research staff: 26
PhD students: ± 60
Teaching support staff: 8
Administration: 10
24 visiting scientists
A 9,551 M€ budget in 2008
Institut Telecom (French State): 39% (3,7 M€)
Academic and industrial members: 13% (1,23 M€)
Own resources:48% (4,62 M€)
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10. EURECOM’S CURRICULUM (1)
Is Compatible with the new European
Bachelor/Master/Doctorate system
EURECOM teaches at the Master’s and at the
doctorate levels
Follows the guidelines of the ECTS accreditation
system
Is organized in semesters
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11. EURECOM’S CURRICULUM (2)
THE STUDY TRACKS
All Master students get a diploma from their home
university
They select one of the following study tracks:
Networking
Web Engineering
Security
Mobile Communications
Transmission Technologies
Multimedia
Real-time and Embedded Systems
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12. EURECOM’S CURRICULUM (3)
MASTER THESES : MOSTLY ABROAD AND AT INDUSTRY SITES
Switzerland THE CLASS OF 2007
10% Germany
12% Canada
United 3%
Kingdom USA
13% 5%
Lebanon
1%
Japan
5%
Iran
1%
France
Ireland 47%
3%
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13. PHD PROGRAM (1)
PhD programs through three Doctoral Schools
Telecom ParisTech
EPFL
Nice Sophia Antipolis University
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14. PhD PROGRAM (2)
Distribution of PhD students per nationalities (61 in 2008)
German 3%
Vietnamese 5%
Tunisian/German 2% Bangladesh 2%
Turkish 5% Austrian 2%
Algerian 3% Belgian 2%
Brazilian 2%
Tunisian 8%
Bulgarian/Turkish 2%
Polish 2% Chinese 8%
Costarican 2%
Pakistanese 10%
Spanish 2%
French 11%
Nigerian 2%
Lebanese 3% Greek 3%
Dutch 2%
Italian 15% Indian 3%
Hungarian 2%
Iranian 2%
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15. PhD PROGRAM (3)
Percentage of Master alumni among the PhDs
EURECOM
Year 2008 alumni/Telecom
EURECOM
alumni/Telecom
ParisTech Bretagne
11% 3% EURECOM
alumni/Telecom
SudParis
2%
EURECOM
alumni/Politecnico di
Torino
11%
Others
73%
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16. EURECOM IN THE FUTURE
Opening towards more top-class Universities to
reinforce network and international collaboration.
In 2011, EURECOM will move to a new building of
7500 m2 on a Telecom Campus shared with INRIA,
CNRS and the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
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17. RESEARCH RESULTS (1)
PUBLICATIONS
Books Journal Conferences Scientific % of H-Number
reports publications
and papers co-signed
co-
Moyenne
chapters with authors Top 10
from foreign
institutions
2004 3 31 128 28
2005 4 26 141 27
2006 7 30 128 23 11,27
15
2007 7 29 138 20 50% 11,79
16,4
2008 4 32 137 25 45% 13,4
18,8
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18. RESEARCH RESULTS (2)
Contractual research in 2008
EURECOM is a Carnot Institute since 2006:
« IC-Institut Telecom EURECOM »
82 contracts in progress
34 industrial contracts
24 national contracts
24 European contracts
Total contracts turnover
2144 K€ in 2004
2539 K€ in 2005
3580 K€ in 2006
3329 K€ in 2007
4024 K€ in 2008
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19. RESEARCH RESULTS (3)
START-
START-UPS
EURECOM supports start-ups founded by its
students, professors and researchers
EURECOM has produced more than 10 of them
EURECOM takes a share in these start-ups
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20. RESEARCH RESULTS (4)
START-
START-UPS
1 start-up launched in 2008
Patent Organizer Software (Pierre Conti)
1 more start-up in the pipe
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21. RESEARCH RESULTS (5)
Patents filed in 2008
2 European patents filed by EURECOM
1 patent co-ownership in the frame of the European
project Portivity
4 patents filed by France Telecom
1 patent filed by Thomson
4 patents filed by SAP
6 patents filed by NXP
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22. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS (1)
NETWORKING AND SECURITY
Protocols and Internet Applications
Peer2peer NW, Content distribution
NW metering (Tomography)
Network Security
Protocols for security
Intrusion detection
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23. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS (2)
MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT
Multimedia Information Processing
Image and video segmentation and classification
Video indexing and summarization
Multimedia content filtering
Speech Processing
Speaker diarization
Speaker identification
Multimedia Imaging
Biometry
Watermarking

24. RESEARCH DIRECTIONS (3)
MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Scope
Mobile Networks (radio access and infrastructure)
Local and cellular networks
Phy and Protocols
Themes
Signal processing
Information theory
Wireless protocols
Mobile ad hoc networks
Software radio platforms (including RF)
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