No, it was not Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao who came to TéSA to tell us about his famous bounds (thanks Wikipedia for the picture), he unfortunately died in August 2023 at the age of 102 without having had time to visit us! But it was Sarah El Boulch, post-doctoral researcher at ISAE-SUPAERO who came to share with us the results of her work on “Hybrid and Modified Lower bounds for Discrete-time Markovian Dynamic systems“. Another very interesting seminar!

TéSA participated in the UTIAS² Forum (Uses of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Space Sector), organized by the COMET SIL of CNES on April 4 and 5, 2024 in Toulouse, with a presentation by Corinne Mailhes “AI in TéSA: Machine Learning, anomaly detection and more if affinities” and Léa Dubreil and Gastón de Boni Rovella who presented two posters on their PhD work. Two rich days with great presentations, great discussions… Well done to the organizers and looking forward to attending the session next year!

For 2 years now, Xavier Barichard has been supporting TéSA doctoral students in the final year of their doctoral PhD to prepare them for their future job interviews. Xavier has known TéSA for many years (previously, he was the Collins Aerospace representative, TéSA partner, in the TéSA Board of Directors). The preparation he offers is individual, adapted to each person, centered on self-knowledge to build your professional project and present yourself better to others. The feedback from doctoral students on this support is very positive, “a chance for TéSA doctoral students to have this type of attention” and there is no doubt that TéSA will continue its collaboration with XBcoaching.

Alexandre GONDRAN, professor at ENAC, presented to us on February 9, 2024 at TéSA a seminar on quantum computing: Holy Graal of optimization or mirage of power? (in French). Thank you for this very interesting session!

Willing to do a PhD? Interested by Space? Join us!

BEFORE March 15, apply online for TéSA thesis subjects at CNES! Six topics are proposed:

• Active “perception planning” for localisation and mapping ;
• Development and analysis of signal processing algorithms for ESA LEO PNT ;
• Design and Processing of GNSS Meta-Signals for Precise Positioning ;
• Multipath scheduling and congestion control for multi-orbit systems ;
• QUIC-PEP for performing VPN over multi-system ;
• Performance Prediction of GNSS/IMU/Video Position Nominal Error

But before applying, do not hesitate to contact the PhD advisor mentioned or the director of TéSA (corinne.mailhes at tesa.prd.fr) for more information.

What else?

Jean-Christophe DENEUVILLE, professor at ENAC (left) and Jérôme LACAN, professor at ISAE-SUPAERO (right) presented on November 30, 2023 at TéSA a seminar on blockchains and post-quantum cryptography: Jérôme gave an Introduction to blockchains and their applications, while Jean-Christophe gave us an introduction to post-quantum cryptography. Thank you both for this very interesting session!

Like every year, TéSA welcomes new PhD students! From left to right in the photo: Geoffroy Heurtier, starting a CIFRE thesis with CGI, Maurine Bouzeid beginning a thesis funded by CNES and Thales Services Numériques, Esteban Morales Aguirre starting a thesis funded by CNES and ISAE-SUPAERO and Léa Dubreil beginning a thesis funded by Thales Alenia Space and IPSA. Two other doctoral students will soon join them and begin a CIFRE thesis with Collins Aerospace…

TéSA sponsored the NTN communications days which took place in October in Toulouse. Indeed, the CNRS RSD and ISIS research groups jointly organized and for the first time the “NTN* communications days” on October 19 and 20, 2023. These thematic days on communications in non-terrestrial networks aim to bring together academics , industrialists and experts in the field to share their latest discoveries, exchange innovative ideas and discuss technical challenges, protocols, architectures and applications related to networks. With more than 80 participants, these days were a great success… looking forward to the next ones in 2024!

TéSA was magnificently represented at the CNES JC2: Gastón de Boni Rovella explained to us with all his pedagogy and humor the workings of channel coding and his innovative approach using machine learning, Evelyne Akopyan brilliantly highlighted the issues of his PhD subject around resilient networks in nanosatellite swarms but it was Hamish McPhee (the third starting from the left) who won a prize by succeeding in making us understand the delicate problem of clock synchronization in nanosatellite swarms ! Well done to all three!