News and events
Awards and Honours
2009
November 2009
Catherine Douillard receives the Glavieux Prize 2009 from the IEEE-SEE
Catherine Douillard is a professor in the Electronics Department of Télécom Bretagne. Her prize rewards almost 15 years of research and resulting industrial applications in information coding.
October 2009
Pedro Casas: Best Paper Award at the LANOMS 2009 Conference
Pedro Casas is a PhD student in the Computers Department at Télécom Bretagne. He was awarded the "Best Conference Paper Award" at the IEEE/IFIP "6th Latin American Network Operations and Management Symposium" (LANOMS 2009) held in Punta del Este (Uruguay) from 19 to 21 October.
September 2009
Samir Saoudi appointed an IEEE Senior Member
Samir Saoudi, a Professor in the Signal and Communication Department of Télécom Bretagne, has been promoted to Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
February 2009
Xavier Lagrange appointed an IEEE Senior Member
Xavier Lagrange, Professor and Director of the Networks, Security and Multimedia Department, has been promoted to Senior Member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
January 2009
Gilbert Lainey promoted to the rank of Commander in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Gilbert Lainey, the Deputy Director of Télécom Bretagne, was promoted on 1st January 2009 to the rank of Commander in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, rewarding thirty years of dedicated work at the service of teaching at Télécom Bretagne.
Didier Guériot appointed IEEE Senior Member
Didier Guériot, a Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department, has been promoted to the rank of IEEE Senior Member
2008
Claude Berrou promoted to the rank of IEEE Fellow
Claude Berrou, a professor from the Electronics Department at TELECOM Bretagne, is promoted to the level of IEEE Fellow, in view of his invention of turbo codes and his involvement in the generalization of the principle of turbos and in standardization
October 2008
Étienne Gallet de Santerre and Laurent Toutain are awarded the prize for the best article at the 6th MajecSTIC
Étienne Gallet de Santerre, a PHD student, and Laurent Toutain, a professor, both from the Optics Department of Télécom Bretagne (Rennes campus), were awarded the best article prize at the 6th Young Researchers in Information and Communication Science and Technologies.
René Garello re-elected Vice President of "Oceanic Engineering" at the IEEE
The term of office of René Garello, full research professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Télécom Bretagne, has been extended.
2007
December 2007
Claude Berrou of Télécom Bretagne (formerly ENST Bretagne) joins the Science Academy
The French Science Academy has elected Claude Berrou, a Professor in the GET/ENST Bretagne Electronics Department, to join its ranks. Working with Alain Glavieux, Claude Berrou was the joint discoverer of turbocodes, a revolutionary coding method leading to spectacular leaps forward in digital communications development. The pair was awarded the Science Academy Grand Prix in 2003. In 2005, Claude Berrou was awarded the prestigious Marconi Prize in the US.
June 2007
An ENST Bretagne graduate wins the IREST Special Prize
The Special Prize awarded by the Institute of Economic and Social Research on Telecommunications (IREST) has been won by Mathieu Guennec for his thesis entitled "The legal framework for Internet access services within the context of the general agreement on the sale of services on the basis of a comparative analysis between American and European laws / Le régime juridique des services d'accès à Internet dans le cadre de l'accord général sur le commerce des services sur la base d'une analyse comparée entre les droits américain et européen".
(More information on the Scientific Prizes and Awards section of the Institut Telecom website)
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