{"id":864,"date":"2026-03-06T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapport-scientifique-2025-list.cea.fr\/awards-and-distinctions\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:44:58","slug":"awards-and-distinctions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rapport-scientifique-2025-list.cea.fr\/en\/awards-and-distinctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and distinctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  • CEA-List software PyRAT won the AI Safety Challenge<\/mark><\/strong> organized by AMIAD, the French Defense Ministry\u2019s AI agency, on April 30.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Our Colibri software won in the QF_FP (24s) and QF_FPLRA (24s and unsat) <\/mark><\/strong>categories for machine reasoning and proof of program at the SMT-COMP\u201925 competition on August 11 in Glasgow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • CEA-List tied for first place for few-shot information extraction and came in second for fine-tuning on closed data<\/mark><\/strong> at the EvalLLM Challenge, organized by AMIAD, the French Defense Ministry\u2019s AI agency, on June 30 in Marseille.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    • The Wavy haptic glove won the Best Demo Award at the I3E VR 2025 conference<\/mark><\/strong> in Saint-Malo in March.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      • CEA-List and ASNR (France\u2019s nuclear safety authority) won Euratom\u2019s Nuclear Innovation Award<\/mark><\/strong> in the Reactor Safety System category for their proposed COMOS monitoring system at the 11th<\/sup> FISAEURADWASTE conference in May. CEA-List was recognized for its scientific contributions to fiber-optic Raman spectrometry applied to hydrogen containment in severe accidents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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        • CEA-List startup Snowpack won in the i-Nov category of the 2024-2025 National Innovation Competitions<\/mark><\/strong> supported by France 2030.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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          • CEA-List came in second in the Airbus Defense & Space TextMine\u201925 competition <\/mark><\/strong>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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            • CEA-List came in second in the overall rankings at the CheckThat!<\/mark><\/strong> 2025 Subjectivity Challenge for a paper entitled \u201cEvaluating LLMs as Detectors of Bias and Opinion in Text\u201d and came in first for Arabic and Polish.<\/mark><\/strong> The awards were granted at the CLEF2025 conference in September in Madrid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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              • CEA-List\u2019s PREDIRE sewer inspection robot won second prize for technology transfer innovations at ERF2025<\/mark><\/strong> in March in Stuttgart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                • CEA-List came in third in the one-shot-method category of the Perception Bin Picking Challenge<\/mark><\/strong> at the I3E CVPR conference in June in Nashville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                  • CEA-List came in third in the Welding Quality Detection Challenge<\/mark><\/strong> 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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
                  • CEA-List\u2019s Marielle Malfante was appointed to the INSITU Chair of Excellence<\/mark><\/strong> by Grenoble Alpes University\u2019s MIAI Cluster for artificial intelligence. Her role will be to drive advances in Edge AI and smart sensors for environmental monitoring. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                    • Dimitri Kokkonis and Micha\u00ebl Marcozzi <\/mark><\/strong>and their co-authors Emilien Decoux and Stefano Zacchiroli won the Best Artefact Award <\/mark><\/strong>for ROSA, an advanced fuzzing tool that detects backdoors, a type of software vulnerability. The award was granted at the ICSE\u201925 conference in May in Ottawa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                      • A Notable Review Award went to S\u00e9bastien Bardin<\/mark><\/strong> at the 34th Usenix Security Symposium on computer security and privacy in July in Seattle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • S\u00e9bastien Bardin<\/mark><\/strong> also won a Distinguished Review Award<\/mark><\/strong> at the NDSS Conference in February in San Diego.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • James Miranda and Ansgar Radermacher<\/mark><\/strong> and their co-authors Lukasz Mazur, Nenad Petrovic, Robert Rasche, and Alois Knoll won the Best Paper Award<\/mark><\/strong> for \u00abQuerying Large Automotive Software Models: Agentic vs. Direct LLM Approaches\u00bb at the GACLM 2025 conference in August in Valencia. The paper explored the application of AI to the management of complex automotive models.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                      • Maxence Perion <\/mark><\/strong>won the Best Student Paper Award<\/mark><\/strong> at AlgoTel, an international conference on distributed systems, in June in Saint Val\u00e9ry-sur-Somme for his paper \u00abStealth Quorums to Counter Adaptive Adversary and Partially Spend Tokens\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                        • Marion Pontreau<\/mark><\/strong> won the Best Student Paper Award<\/mark><\/strong> at I3E WHC 2025 (World Haptics) in July in Suwon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                          • PhD student Mohamed Amine Zhiri<\/mark><\/strong> won the Best Paper Award <\/mark><\/strong>for his article \u00abHT-NoC: Reconfigurable High Throughput Network-on-Chip for AI Dataflow Accelerators\u201d at ARC 2025 in April in Seville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                            • Matthieu Lemerre<\/mark><\/strong> won the Best \u201cSpeed Poster\u201d Presentation <\/mark><\/strong>award at the French National Research Agency\u2019s Interdisciplinary Workshop for Global Security (WISG) in March in Saclay.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • The Best Poster Award<\/mark><\/strong> went to Ablaihan Utepov<\/mark><\/strong> at ICRM 2025 in May in Paris.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • PhD student Eduardo Tomasi Ribeiro<\/mark><\/strong> won the Best Paper Award<\/mark><\/strong> for \u00abHPC Workload Analysis Using Distributed Cross-ISA Binary Instrumentation\u00bb at DCIS 2025 in November in Santander.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • PhD student Lilia Rouizi<\/mark><\/strong> won an Outstanding Paper Award<\/strong><\/mark> for \u00abRevisiting Timing Anomalies in Predictable In-Order Pipelines\u00bb at ECRTS 2025 in July in Lund.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
                            • Dorian Lesbre<\/mark><\/strong> won the Doctorant STIC du Plateau de Saclay<\/strong> <\/mark>(for PhD students in the computer sciences at Saclay) for his research on formal software validation (\u00abCompiling with Abstract Interpretation\u00bb).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                              • The Best Presentation Award<\/mark><\/strong> went to A\u00efcha Boukhari <\/mark><\/strong>for her presentation on formal software validation at JITA\u201925 in October in Saclay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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                                • Sasha Cuau<\/mark><\/strong> won a Best Poster Award<\/mark><\/strong> for her poster on AI robustness at JITA\u201925 2nd in October in Saclay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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