During the international IEEE-OES Oceans’11 conference, held June 6 to 9 in Santander (Spain), the presence of Tlecom Bretagne drew attention. Sarab Tay, PhD student in the Image and Information Processing (ITI) department won the first prize for the poster session and three research lecturers saw their technical positions within the learned Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) confirmed

Sarab Tay receives her award from Ms. Ellen Livingstone, ONRG (Office of Naval Research Global), which sponsored the contest.

The Oceans Conference is now identified as the reference in the fields of marine engineering, measurement, interpretation and knowledge of the sea. Its domains range from underwater acoustics, monitoring the marine environment, maritime safety … For its active involvement and activity, the role of the Telecom Bretagne team has been strengthened in the French chapter of the IEEE OES.

Prize for best student poster

Sarab Tay, PhD student at IIT department, Labsticc,won the student poster competition with her “Near sea surface target tracking by extended Kalman filtering of the Reflected GPS signal”. You can view the film of Sarab Tay’s poster presentation on webtv llipack. Two other doctoral students at the School, Hector Fabian Mendez (Microwave department, Labsticc) and Pauline Vincent (IIT department, Labsticc) were classified respectively in third and fourth place in the same competition.

Télécom Bretagne’s significant participation during the conference

The conference also provided an opportunity for the Telecom Bretagne team to present five other papers during the oral communications. Three research lecturers saw their technical positions within the learned Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) confirmed. They are:
- Christophe Laot, co-chair of the Technical Committee “Underwater communication, navigation and positioning”;
- René Garello, co-chair of the Technical Committee “Air / space remote ocean sensing ” and responsible for the administration commission for the conferences;
- Christophe Sintes, co-responsible for the  ”student poster” competition and representing Gold (Graduate of the last decade).

Photo of part of the group who travelled to Santander (Spain) on the occasion of the IEEE OES Oceans'11 conference. Students in the foreground are (from left to right): Hector Fabian Mendez, Bo Wang, Pauline Vincent, Sarab Tay, Naouraz Brahim, Abdelhakim Youcef. In the background: René Garello, Frédéric Maussang, Karine Amis-Cavalec, and François Le Pennec. (Photo credits: Rene Garello)