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AWARDS

2005 - Together with Frédéric Kaplan, I was awarded the Implemented Invention Award (4th prize) by Sony Corporation, for our US patent No. 6760645 "Taming robots with clicker training".

2005 - I was awarded the "Prix ASTI 2005", which is for the best pluri-disciplinary PhD thesis in the Science and Technologies of Information and Communication defended in France in the period 2003/2004.
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2004 - I was awarded the "Prix Le Monde de la recherche universitaire", which is a prize organized by the journal "Le Monde" with a jury of scientists, which elect every year the 15 best PhD thesis among those which were defended in the past year in french universities and in a field of exact sciences. 

2001 - I received the "Best Application Paper" award in 2001 in the Artificial Evolution Conference, see web site.

2000 - I received the "Best Paper Award" with Frederic Kaplan at the Sony Research Forum 2000
, which is the yearly worldwide conference that gathers the engineers of Sony Corporation.
 

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