Awards
AIM has created a number of awards in order to encourage scientific research and to promote original works.
AIM Award for the best master theses
The AIM awards every year the best master theses from graduates of the Montefiore Institute. A prize of 400€ is awarded per section of the Montefiore Institute, whose curriculum is closely related to the Institute’s: Electrical Engineer, Electromechanical Engineer, Biomedical Engineer, Physics Engineer, Engineer and Master in Computer Science, Engineer and Master in Data Science.
In 2024, as the FABI granted a prize of 750€, the AIM decided to split it among all the laureates. The amount of the 2024 prizes is therefore exceptionally 500€.
The 2024 laureates are :
Electrical Engineering
Quentin Halbach
Titre : “Dendritic Arithmetic and Dynamics for Neuromorphic Temporal Pattern Detection”
Electromechanical Engineering
Fernand Scholzen
Title : “Wind-Energy-Powered Direct Current Fast-Chargers Supported by a Battery Energy Storage System”
Biomedical Engineering
Jeanne Delhez
Title : “Application of the PFEM to the Study of Blood Flows and their Interactions With Artery Walls”
Computer Science Engineering
Arnaud Leduc
Title : “SoccerNet-Depth: a Scalable Dataset for Monocular Depth Estimation in Sports Video”
Master in Computer Science
Dylan Provoost
Title : “Towards a New Benchmark for Background Subtraction Algorithms in Computer Vision”
Engineering Physics
Daniel Stoffels
Title : “Electromigration-Driven Weak Resistance Switching in High-Temperature Superconducting Devices”
Master in Data Science
Alexandre Eymael
Title : “Efficient Image Pre-Training With Siamese Cropped Masked Autoencoders”
Data Science Engineering
Maxence de La Brassinne Bonardeaux
Title : “Conservative Simulation-Based Inference With Bayesian Deep Learning”
AIM Award for the best PhD thesis
The George Montefiore International Competition, established by our founder, rewarded every five years an exceptional work carried out in a field chosen among the specialties taught at the Montefiore Institute.
For many years, this prize was very renowned in the field of electrical engineering.
In 2014, AIM created another award for the best PHD thesis presented at the Montefiore Institute.
This prize distinguishes a doctoral thesis defended in the past year at the Montefiore Institute. The Doctoral College of the Institute selects, among the candidate theses, the three theses that present the highest scientific interest. The AIM, as part of its award, aims to highlight the societal aspect and industrial implications of the content of the thesis. It is in this spirit that it designates the best thesis.
This prize of 3500 euros was given for the first time in 2015.
In 2024, it was awarded to Kathleen Jacquerie for her thesis entitled “Modeling Brain-State Dependent Memory Consolidation”.