New Talents and Projects Mark the Start of the New Academic Year at the MSI

The Center of Modeling, Simulation and Interactions (MSI) keeps growing to meet Université Côte d'Azur's needs in terms of modeling, computing, and large-scale data processing.

Highlights of the new academic year include:

Welcoming Three New Engineers

The MSI is pleased to welcome three new engineers, each bringing specialized expertise to the team. Carole Belliardo, an expert in massive data processing and high-performance computing applied to evolutionary and comparative genomics, joins the team alongside Mohammed Bouziane, who specializes in high-performance computing and digital simulation, and Stéphanie Lopez, an expert in artificial intelligence in the healthcare field, already working at the university. They join a team consisting of Maeva Antoine, the operational manager of computing resources (Azzurra computing center), and Marco Milanesio, a data science expert and MSI technology referent. Together, they are already collaborating with various research teams.

Support for Research Projects

As part of the Call for Expressions of Interest (AMI) launched last March, several research projects were selected to benefit from the support of an MSI expert for up to one year. These projects span a wide range of disciplines:

• Led by IRCAN, the CORA(i)L project leverages artificial intelligence for the automatic, non-invasive detection of coral reef health through image analysis. It is supported by numerous partnerships with research institutions, NGOs, and foundations in France and abroad.
• The target of the LibVF project: the development of a computer platform, accessible to the university community, that consolidates various experiments with DDFV numerical methods (discrete duality finite volume schemes). The project is conducted by the Partial Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis team, along with the Numerical Modeling and Fluid Dynamics team from the J.A. Dieudonné Laboratory.
• The MetaBinMG project, led by Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, is part of the PePR MISTIC consortium of priority research projects on crop microbiomes and digital technologies. It aims to create tools for studying the microbial diversity associated with plant crops and their health.
• Finally, the PAIRE project, led by CEPAM, seeks to renew traditional archaeozoological research methods by using artificial intelligence to automatically pair archaeological shells.
   

MPI (High-Performance Computing) Training

From October 16 to 18, the MSI will host a course on Message Passing Interface (MPI), led by experts from IDRIS. The course is primarily aimed at PhD students but is also open to a wider audience, subject to availability. Proficiency in C, Fortran, or Python programming languages is required to enroll.

Contact : valeria.neglia[at]univ-cotedazur.fr