Awards and distinctions

  • CEA-List software PyRAT won the AI Safety Challenge organized by AMIAD, the French Defense Ministry’s AI agency, on April 30.
  • Our Colibri software won in the QF_FP (24s) and QF_FPLRA (24s and unsat) categories for machine reasoning and proof of program at the SMT-COMP’25 competition on August 11 in Glasgow.
  • CEA-List tied for first place for few-shot information extraction and came in second for fine-tuning on closed data at the EvalLLM Challenge, organized by AMIAD, the French Defense Ministry’s AI agency, on June 30 in Marseille.
Awards Ceremony for the
“AI Safety” Challenge – © COMCYBER
  • The Wavy haptic glove won the Best Demo Award at the I3E VR 2025 conference in Saint-Malo in March.
The Wavy haptic glove
  • CEA-List and ASNR (France’s nuclear safety authority) won Euratom’s Nuclear Innovation Award in the Reactor Safety System category for their proposed COMOS monitoring system at the 11th FISAEURADWASTE conference in May. CEA-List was recognized for its scientific contributions to fiber-optic Raman spectrometry applied to hydrogen containment in severe accidents.
Euratom’s Nuclear Innovation Award
  • CEA-List startup Snowpack won in the i-Nov category of the 2024-2025 National Innovation Competitions supported by France 2030.
  • CEA-List came in second in the Airbus Defense & Space TextMine’25 competition for the extraction of document level relationships between entities from simulated intelligence reports in French. The award was granted at the EGC 2025 conference on January 28 in Strasbourg.
  • CEA-List came in second in the overall rankings at the CheckThat! 2025 Subjectivity Challenge for a paper entitled “Evaluating LLMs as Detectors of Bias and Opinion in Text” and came in first for Arabic and Polish. The awards were granted at the CLEF2025 conference in September in Madrid.
  • CEA-List’s PREDIRE sewer inspection robot won second prize for technology transfer innovations at ERF2025 in March in Stuttgart.
  • CEA-List came in third in the one-shot-method category of the Perception Bin Picking Challenge at the I3E CVPR conference in June in Nashville.
  • CEA-List came in third in the Welding Quality Detection Challenge at the Trustworthy AI Summit 2025 in September at EDF Lab in Saclay. The award was given for the automated classification of weld images taken on automotive production lines, an industrial use case provided by Renault.
  • CEA-List’s Marielle Malfante was appointed to the INSITU Chair of Excellence by Grenoble Alpes University’s MIAI Cluster for artificial intelligence. Her role will be to drive advances in Edge AI and smart sensors for environmental monitoring.
  • Dimitri Kokkonis and Michaël Marcozzi and their co-authors Emilien Decoux and Stefano Zacchiroli won the Best Artefact Award for ROSA, an advanced fuzzing tool that detects backdoors, a type of software vulnerability. The award was granted at the ICSE’25 conference in May in Ottawa.
  • A Notable Review Award went to Sébastien Bardin at the 34th Usenix Security Symposium on computer security and privacy in July in Seattle.
  • Sébastien Bardin also won a Distinguished Review Award at the NDSS Conference in February in San Diego.
  • James Miranda and Ansgar Radermacher and their co-authors Lukasz Mazur, Nenad Petrovic, Robert Rasche, and Alois Knoll won the Best Paper Award for «Querying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches» at the GACLM 2025 conference in August in Valencia. The paper explored the application of AI to the management of complex automotive models.
  • Maxence Perion won the Best Student Paper Award at AlgoTel, an international conference on distributed systems, in June in Saint Valéry-sur-Somme for his paper «Stealth Quorums to Counter Adaptive Adversary and Partially Spend Tokens”.
  • Marion Pontreau won the Best Student Paper Award at I3E WHC 2025 (World Haptics) in July in Suwon.
  • PhD student Mohamed Amine Zhiri won the Best Paper Award for his article «HT-NoC: Reconfigurable High Throughput Network-on-Chip for AI Dataflow Accelerators” at ARC 2025 in April in Seville.
  • Matthieu Lemerre won the Best “Speed Poster” Presentation award at the French National Research Agency’s Interdisciplinary Workshop for Global Security (WISG) in March in Saclay.
  • The Best Poster Award went to Ablaihan Utepov at ICRM 2025 in May in Paris.
  • PhD student Eduardo Tomasi Ribeiro won the Best Paper Award for «HPC Workload Analysis Using Distributed Cross-ISA Binary Instrumentation» at DCIS 2025 in November in Santander.
  • PhD student Lilia Rouizi won an Outstanding Paper Award for «Revisiting Timing Anomalies in Predictable In-Order Pipelines» at ECRTS 2025 in July in Lund.
  • Dorian Lesbre won the Doctorant STIC du Plateau de Saclay (for PhD students in the computer sciences at Saclay) for his research on formal software validation («Compiling with Abstract Interpretation»).
  • The Best Presentation Award went to Aïcha Boukhari for her presentation on formal software validation at JITA’25 in October in Saclay.
  • Sasha Cuau won a Best Poster Award for her poster on AI robustness at JITA’25 2nd in October in Saclay.