PROGRAM

Stéphane Lanteri is a senior research scientist at the Inria Research Center of University Côte d’Azur. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (Year of defense: 1991) and a HDR (habilitation to advise doctoral theses) from the University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis (Year of defense: 2003 - Title: High-performance numerical methods on unstructured meshes with applications to compressible fluid dynamics). From May 1992 to October 1993, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Aerospace Structure, University of Colorado at Boulder, under the supervision of Charbel Farhat. His current research interests are concerned with numerical modeling of physical problems related to computational electromagnetics and computational nanophotonics: high order discontinuous Galerkin type approximation methods, reduced-order modeling methods, physics-based neural networks methods and parallel numerical algorithms for solving differential systems modeling electromagnetic wave interaction with complex media with a focus of nanoscale light-matter interaction. Since February 2020, he is the scientific head of the Atlantis project-team at the Inria Research Center of Université Côte d’Azur. He is also the scientific coordinator of the development of the DIOGENeS software suite, which is dedicated to computational nanophotonics. Stéphane Lanteri has authored or co-authored more that 80 publications in international journals in applied mathematics, scientific computing, computational physics and more recently, optics and photonics.Web: https://slanteri.github.io/.

Benoit Sklénard is a permanent researcher and leads the Advanced Simulation Group in the "Simulation and Modelling Laboratory" at CEA-Leti. He earned a Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Microelectronics from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon in 2010. In 2014, he completed his PhD at the Grenoble Institute of Technology. His research interests include atomistic and mesoscale modeling and simulation of materials for nanoelectronics applications. Currently, his work focuses on combining atomistic simulation with artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the understanding and development of materials for advanced technologies.

Alexander (Alex) Gabourie is a cofounder and the CTO of DeepSim, Inc., a Y Combinator-backed startup developing AI-accelerated physics simulation technology. At DeepSim, Alex focuses on multi-scale thermal-mechanical modeling to optimize the design and reliability of integrated circuits and packaging. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in EE at Stanford University, where he specialized in the thermal properties of semiconducting 2D materials. His research has been highlighted in Nature Electronics, selected as an Editor’s Pick in the Journal of Applied Sciences, and recognized with an IOP Publishing Top Cited Paper Award North America in the Nanosciences category.

Manuel Le Gallo joined IBM Research Europe in 2013, where he is currently employed as a Staff Research Scientist in the In-Memory Computing group of the Zurich laboratory. His main research interest is in using phase-change memory devices for non-von Neumann computing. He has co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in journal and conferences, holds 35 granted patents and has given 15 invited talks. He was appointed IBM Master Inventor in 2019 and 2024 for significant contributions to intellectual property and is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review's 2020 Innovators Under 35 award.

Yann-Michel Niquet received his PhD degree from the University of Lille (France) in 2001. Since 2003, he is a permanent researcher with the CEA, at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Grenoble (IRIG). He is leading research on the modeling of the electronic, optical, and transport properties of semiconductor nanostructures. In particular, he his working on the theory of semiconductor spin qubits since 2018.

Viktor Sverdlov obtained his Master of Science and PhD degrees in physics from the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1999, he worked as a senior research scientist at the V.A. Fock Institute of Physics at the same university. Throughout his career, he has visited several notable institutions, including the ICTP in Italy (1993), the University of Geneva in Switzerland (1993-1994), the University of Oulu in Finland (1995), the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland (1996, 1998), the Free University of Berlin in Germany (1997), and NORDITA in Denmark (1998).
In 1999, he became a staff research scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 2004, he joined the Institute for Microelectronics at Technische Universität Wien, where he is currently an associate professor and the director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Nonvolatile Magnetoresistive Memory and Logic. His scientific interests include device simulations, computational physics, solid-state physics, and nanoelectronics.

Mincheol Shin received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Northwestern University, USA, in 1992. He was with Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea, as a Senior Researcher from 1993 to 2002. In 2002, he joined the faculty of School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, where he is currently a full professor. His research interest has focused on developing in-house simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices, specializing in advanced electronic transport calculations utilizing quantum mechanical methodologies.

Samuel Poncé is an F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate and Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He is leading the Electron-Phonon group (www.samuelponce.com). He completed his PhD in Solid State Physics at the Université catholique de Louvain in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Gonze. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s  degrees in Civil Engineering at the Université catholique de Louvain in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Samuel was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Giustino in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow of the Wolfson College from 2015 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Institute of Materials from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the group of Prof. Marzari.