Organization and Contacts
- Director
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Didier Auroux earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2003. Prior to that, he pursued his education at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon from 1997 to 2001. Serving as a lecturer at the Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3 from 2004 to 2008, he later assumed the role of a professor of applied mathematics at the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, now Université Côte d'Azur, starting in 2009. Presently, he holds the position of director at the Center of Modeling, Simulation, and Interactions (MSI).
His research interests focus on numerical methods and their diverse applications, including data assimilation, geophysics, image processing, as well as broader domains such as scientific computing, optimal control, and inverse problems. His ongoing work involves the development of fast algorithms, based on observers, to facilitate parameter estimation and trajectory identification. This extends to calibrating models of fluid flows and forecasting their evolution with precision.
Former MSI Director (2016- 2023)
Prof. Stéphane Descombes - Steering Committee
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- Sylvain ANTONIOTTI, IdEx UCA JEDI Vice President
- Didier AUROUX, MSI Director
- Pascal BARBRY, Director of the Academy 4: “Complexity and diversity of living systems”
- Jérémie BEC, Director of the Academy 2: “Complex systems”
- Anne BROGINI, Vice President Documentary and Open Science Policies
- Laurent COUNILLON, Vice President Research at Université Côte D'azur
- Walid DABBOUS, Director of the Academy 1 “Networks, Information and Digital Society”
- Hervé DELINGETTE, IdEx UCA JEDI Scientific Director
- Christophe DEN AUWER, Director of the Academy 3: "Space, environment, Risk and Resilience"
- Régis DUVIGNEAU, Inria centre at Université Côte d’Azur
- Chiara FERRARI, IdEx UCA JEDI Scientific Director
- Stéphane MAZEVET, Director of the Côte d’Azur Observatory - OCA
- Laurent MONASSE, Graduate School “Formal, Physical and Engineering Sciences” - EUR SPECTRUM
- Johan MONTAGNAT, Director the Graduate School “Digital Systems for Humans” - EUR DS4H
- Alexandre MUZY, Director of the Modeling in Neuroscience and Cognition Institute - NeuroMod
- “LIFE - Graduate School OF Life and Health Sciences” Representative [TBN]
- Arnaud Zucker, Director of the Academy 5 "Human societies, Ideas and Environments”
Invited Members
Scientific Committee Director [TBN]
Valeria NEGLIA, MSI Project Manager
- Steering Committee Former Members (2017-2022)
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- Didier Auroux, J. A. Dieudonné Laboratory (LJAD)
- Yann Bouret, Nice Institute of Physics (InPhyNi)
- Patrick Brest, Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN)
- Laurent Busé, Inria centre at Université Côte d’Azur
- Francesco Castellaneta, GREDEG, SKEMA Business School
- Florian Pelgrin, EDHEC Business School
- Yannick Ponty, Côte d’Azur Observatory - OCA
- Jean-Charles Regin, I3S Laboratory
- Scientific Committee
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The scientific Committee is a scientific and technological advisory body
Members
- Mireille Bossy, Academy 2: “Complex systems”
- Amanda Edmonds, Academy 5 "Human societies, Ideas and Environments”
- Frédéric GROGNARD, Academy 3: "Space, environment, Risk and Resilience"
- Arnaud Hubstenberger, Academy 4: “Complexity and diversity of living systems”
- Fabrice Huet, Graduate School “Digital Systems for Humans” - EUR DS4H
- Kévin Lebrigand, Graduate School of Life and Health Sciences” - EUR LIFE
- Elena Lega, Côte d’Azur Observatory - OCA
- Florence Marcotte, Inria centre at Université Côte d’Azur
- Théodore Papadopoulo, Modeling in Neuroscience and Cognition Institute - NeuroMod
- Claire Scheid, Graduate School “Formal, Physical and Engineering Sciences” - EUR SPECTRUM
- Executive Committee
Engineers
- Maeva Antoine, senior engineer, scientific computing referent
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Maeva.Antoine@univ-cotedazur.fr
+33 (0)4 89 15 15 76
Petit Valrose, Avenue Joseph Vallot, 06100 Nice
Maeva Antoine obtained a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in 2015. Her thesis focused on load balancing in distributed systems. In September 2019, Maeva was recruited by the MSI as HPC Systems Administrator of Azzurra, the Université Côte d'Azur Computing Center. - Carole Belliardo, Engineer in High-Performance Computing, Numerical Simulation, and Data Science
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Carole.Belliardo@univ-cotedazur.fr
Institut Sophia Agrobiotech INRAE PACA,Office C203
400 Route des Chappes, 06903 Sophia AntipolisCarole Belliardo received a Ph.D. in Interaction, Biology and Ecology from Université Côte d'Azur in 2022. Her dissertation focused on the study of horizontal gene transfers in phytoparasitic nematodes through the exploitation of soil metagenomes.
After her Ph.D., she completed a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the France 2030 Priority Research Project (PePR) "Plant Microbiome and ICT," comparing different sequencing technologies for studying soil microbial communities. Her research in evolutionary and comparative genomics required the analysis of large datasets and the use of high-performance computing (HPC).
In June 2024, Carole joined the Center of Modeling, Simulation, and Interactions (MSI) as an expert engineer in high-performance computing, numerical simulation, and data science
- Stéphanie Lopez, senior engineer
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Stéphanie Lopez obtained her engineering degree in Applied Mathematics from Polytech Nice in 2013, and her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017, as part of the ANR VISIIR project.
Passionate about health projects and innovation, Stéphanie initiated and has led the LungscreenAI project since 2018, which received IdEx and MSI funding. This project is based on a partnership between Université Côte d’Azur, the Nice University Hospital (CHU de Nice), and Therapixel. Stéphanie’s contributions include the proof of concept, securing funding, recruiting and managing a multidisciplinary team, and handling GDPR regulatory procedures in collaboration with the clinical research department of the CHU and the IT department.
Today, LungScreenAI is part of the DA Capo study at CHU de Nice and is in the process of commercialization. Since June 2024, Stéphanie has been providing her expertise to MSI to support AI health projects in valorizing their collected data.
- Marco Milanesio, senior engineer, technology referent
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Marco Milanesio marco.milanesio@univ-cotedazur.fr
+ 33 64 68 12 490
Inria Center at Université Côte d'Azur
bât. Fermat, Bureau F215
2004 Route des Lucioles, 06902 Valbonne
Marco Milanesio earned his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Turin (Italy) in 2010, with a thesis on "Layering Multi-Purpose Applications over Structured and Dependable P2P Systems". During his PhD, he worked on the security aspects of distributed systems, their architectures and features.
From 2011 to 2017, he was research engineer at Eurecom in the "Network and Security" (until 2016) and "Data Science" departments, where he worked on several topics: network performance measurements, QoE / QoS, distributed storage, virtualization, time series analysis and forecasting.
He joined the MSI in September 2017.
Project Manager
- Valeria Neglia
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Valeria Neglia Valeria.Neglia@univ-cotedazur.fr+33 (0)6 07 53 25 84 (mobile phone number)
+33 (0)4 89 15 09 84 (landline phone number)
Université Côte d'Azur, Résidence Universitaire l'Alvéole
1 Chemin Bessi, 06100 Nice
Since April 2017, Valeria Neglia (MSc in Philosophy) is the Project Manager of the Center of Modeling, Simulation and Interactions (MSI) at Université Côte d'Azur.
To Contact the MSI
Valeria Neglia, Project Manager
E-mail : valeria.neglia@univ-cotedazur.fr
Mobile phone number: +33 (0)6 07 53 25 84
Landline phone number : +33 (0)4 89 15 09 84
1 Chemin Bessi, 06100 Nice, France
