The Institut Mines-Telecom, together with the Academy of Sciences, announced the 2020 winners of the ITM – Academy of Sciences Awards. The ITM – Academy of Sciences Grand Prize was awarded to Gaël Richard, while the ITM – Academy of Sciences Hope Prize was awarded to Étienne Perret.

The 2020 laureates

The ITM – Academy of Sciences Grand Prize is awarded to Gaël Richard

Gaël Richard is a professor and head of the Image, Data, Signal department at Télécom Paris and executive director of Hi! Paris, the new research center for artificial intelligence and data science at the Institut polytechnique de Paris and HEC.

Its research work, anchored in the field of digital transformation science and technology, focuses on the analysis, transformation and recognition of sound signals, using advanced principles of statistical signal processing, optimization and machine learning.

The Prix Espoir ITM – Académie des sciences is awarded to Étienne Perret

Étienne Perret is a lecturer at Grenoble INP – Esisar, UGA and head of the ORSYS team at the Systems Design and Integration Laboratory (Grenoble INP – UGA/Université Grenoble Alpes); he leads the ERC Consolidator Grant ScattererID project.
Étienne Perret has made a major contribution in the field of chipless radio frequency identification. His work has shown the possibility of using radio waves to retrieve information stored on printed labels in the absence of direct visual contact.

Recognizing talent

The ITM-Academy of Sciences Awards were created by the Institut Mines-Télécom, jointly with the Academy of Sciences, to distinguish talents :

The ITM – Academy of Sciences Grand Prize of 30,000 euros.

This annual prize founded by the ITM (Institut Mines-Télécom), in partnership with the Mines-Télécom Foundation, is intended to reward a scientist who has made an exceptional contribution through a set of recognised scientific advances that have enabled progress to be made on issues arising from the world of industry or business, in the service of a sustainable economy, in one of the following scientific and technological fields: digital transformation in industry, energy and environmental engineering, materials and manufacturing.

This grand prize is awarded without nationality condition to a scientist working in France, or in Europe in close collaboration with French teams.

The ITM Hope Prize – Academy of Sciences, amounting to 15,000 euros.

This annual prize founded by the ITM (Institut Mines-Télécom), in partnership with the Fondation Mines-Télécom, is intended to reward a scientist under 40 years of age on the first of January of the year in which the prize is awarded (this limit may be extended by one year per child), who has contributed through a major innovation to advancing issues arising from the industrial or business world, in the service of a sustainable economy, in one of the following scientific and technological fields: digital transformation in industry, energy and environmental engineering, materials and manufacturing.

This prize is awarded without condition of nationality to a scientist working in France, or in Europe in close collaboration with French teams.

Translated from Gaël Richard et Étienne Perret, lauréats 2020 des prix IMT – Académie des sciences