Laurent Ferro-Famil (right) from ISAE SUPAERO was elected to join the presidency of the Scientific Committee with Riadh Dhaou (left) from Toulouse INP /IRIT, to replace Antoine Blais (middle) from ENAC who completed his mandate… and remains in the Scientific Committeel of TéSA as ENAC representative.

Codirection by Toulouse INP & ISAE-Supaero.
Details of the PhD subject: Inférence bayésienne pour l’estimation de paramètres mécaniques – appli données modales

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The European signal and image processing conference EUSIPCO, bringing together more than 700 researchers in the field, will be held in Lyon in August this year and TéSA will be present in force: 12 papers have been accepted. Good job to everyone !

In addition to having their papers accepted at IEEE IGARSS 2024, Marta Bottani (“A Statistical Method for Near Real-Time Deforestation Monitoring Using Time-Series of Sentinel-1 Images”) and Jihanne El Haouari (“Estimation of Instrument Spectral Response Functions Using Sparse Representations in a Dictionary”) will be among the 10 finalists for the Best Student Paper Award, from 375 submissions. Many congratulations to Marta and Jihanne: having 2 TéSA papers among the 10 finalists is already quite a victory! There is no doubt that they will wear the TéSA colors loud and clear during this upcoming competition!

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.

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