Jerome Le Ny

Postdoctoral fellowship opportunity via IVADO ivado.ca/en/scholarship…

The International Journal on Robust and Nonlinear Control plans to publish a special issue on "Privacy in Distributed Control and Optimization". Submission deadline is currently at the end of September. Details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

The electrical engineering department @polymtl has 3 open faculty positions: 1) Information theory, machine learning polymtl.ca/carriere/en/of… 2) Energy, power electronics polymtl.ca/carriere/en/of… 3) Canada chair on emerging semiconductor technologies polymtl.ca/carriere/en/of…

@pappasg69 @theNAEng @PennEngineers Congrats George !

Thrilled to announce my election to the National Academy of Engineering (@theNAEng ). I am grateful for the support of my @PennEngineers colleagues, mentors, and above all, my students and postdocs that have made this distinction possible.

The annual GERAD @geradinfo postdoctoral fellowship competition is open until January 31st. More information on how to apply at gerad.ca/en/competition

Congrats to Mohammed A. Shalaby for his successful PhD defence! His PhD was on the use of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio for robot navigation, and was supervised by Prof. James Forbes and Prof. Jerome Le Ny.

@UCIEngineerDean @UWMadison @CCConservancy Funny, I was just reading the preface of your Robot Ecology book!

Last month, @Juste1Cano successfully defended his PhD thesis on RF localization optimization for multi-robot systems. He is receiving a PhD degree both from @polymtl and @ISAE_officiel , and joining @onera_en for his next adventure. Congratulations Justin !

📣 💸 Le ministre @FP_Champagne a annoncé aujourd’hui une subvention de 124,5 M$ d’Apogée Canada pour le projet IAR3 d’@IVADO_Qc en #intelligenceartificielle. @TIPS_SPIIE @UMontreal @polymtl @HEC_Montreal @universitelaval @mcgillu bit.ly/41Joi4Y

Nous sommes très fiers de recevoir avec nos partenaires à @UMontreal Esther Duflo, Prix Nobel d'économie. Pour vous inscrire: eventbrite.ca/e/billets-comm…

@ramkrishnap @florian_dorfler @IEEECDC2023 The official instructions are to find 4 confirmed reviewers per paper in one week (in case one drops later). And not send many review invitations for each paper, whatever that means.

@florian_dorfler @IEEECDC2023 4/6 for me.. I have once had a CDC submission with 7 reviews. What does math say, assigning each paper to 20 reviewers is a good strategy to get the 3 required reviews ?

So the @IEEECDC2023 TPC got access to the papers about roughly 24h ago… and so far already 10 landed in my inbox for review (8 are off topic). Seriously, AEs? Are you all adopting the racing strategy? No wonder that everyone is annoyed about the peer review system.

@florian_dorfler @AndreaGarulli for sure it does not make sense to send you 12 papers to review. But still AEs are optimizing locally given their constraints, and I think to address the fundamental issues we should look elsewhere.

@jleny @AndreaGarulli Sorry for the bashing. I am obviously familiar with the challenges on the other side. But i do not approve the “flooding the system” strategy.

@AndreaGarulli @florian_dorfler The difference with journals is that we work with tighter deadlines, so we cannot wait for reviewers to take 2 weeks to decide. Then more invitations are sent, and you end up with a mess. Deadlines are not coming from AEs.

@AndreaGarulli @florian_dorfler I see it's AE bashing time on Twitter 😀 Given the constraints, I'd just say that the most efficient way right now to improve the process is to promptly reply to the invitations, even if the answer is negative, no matter the reason (too many reviews, off topic, CoI, etc.).

Here is the paper she wrote while in Montreal ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/94553…

Congratulations to Anthea Comellini, who visited our lab for a few months at the end of her PhD on space rendezvous, for being selected as a member of the ESA astronaut reserve. First alumna of the lab to get her own wikipedia page! esa.int/Science_Explor…

Congratulations to my former doctoral student, Nikolay Atanasov @UCSDJacobs (co-advised by @KostasPenn) for receiving one of the @ieeeras Early Career Awards in Robotics and Automation! @GRASPlab @PennEngineers ieee-ras.org/awards-recogni…

Open position in automation and control at Polytechnique Montreal (Electrical Engineering) polymtl.ca/carriere/en/of…

Le @FRQ_NT est heureux de lancer un nouveau progr. avec le @CRIAQ_aero, destiné à la la relève étudiante féminine en #STEM, et un autre avec la Régie de l’énergie destinée à la la relève étudiante en #STEM. 🗓️Date limite : 4 oct. 2022 #communautéFRQ bit.ly/3afdne1

@MFamelis I can suggest the CIS 500 course notes / book of Benjamin Pierce at UPenn softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu