Academic team

Joe Wiart, Ingénieur Général des Mines (92), HDR (95), PhD (95), is since 2015 the holder of the Chair "Caractérisation, modélisation et maitrise des expositions aux ondes électromagnétiques" (C2M) of the IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom). Chairman of the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) TC106x in charge of standards related to human exposure, he is since 2018 the chairman of the Steering Committee "Ondes-Paris" of the city of Paris.

He is a former president of the International union of radio sciences (Union internationale des sciences de la radio, URSI-France), also known as the French national committee for radio science (CNFRS), and is the current chairman of the URSI Commission K.

He has been an Emeritus Member of the Society of Environmental Engineers (SEE) since 2008 and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2002. He was previously the head of the Orange (formerly France Telecom) research unit in charge of studies on human exposure to electromagnetic fields. He has led or contributed to many national and international projects dedicated to dosimetry, such as the European project Lexnet (http://www.lexnet-project.eu/) or the ANSES projects Acte and AMPERE. His research interests are dosimetry, numerical methods, artificial intelligence and statistics applied in electromagnetism and stochastic dosimetry. His work has resulted in more than 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 200 communications in conferences.

Isabelle Bloch has been a lecturer and researcher at Télécom Paris since 1991. She is currently working on the mathematical modeling of spatial relations and on spatial reasoning within the LTCI (IMAGES team).

She builds mathematical models, which are then integrated into algorithms to assist in the interpretation of images, particularly medical images. In this field of application, the researcher proposes methods to help doctors analyze and interpret images. To do this, she models the spatial relationships between objects, then integrates them into processes of analysis and interpretation to guide segmentation, i.e. to determine the contours or surfaces of the various objects in an image, and the recognition of objects (organs or pathologies), by restricting the search area.

Therefore she deals mostly with spatial reasoning, developed using mainly algebraic methods (mathematical morphology, fuzzy sets, logic). This research has many applications, mainly in medical imaging, with notably, in close collaboration with university hospitals, help for diagnosis and therapeutic or surgical planning - by allowing less invasive surgery, follow-up in time, etc.

The reasercher has previously worked on information fusion, or how to combine various information from images of different origins of the same problem and improve decision making about the object of observation. This work on fusion is now part of the information processing in several fields, including ongoing work in medical imaging and spatial reasoning.

Recently, Isabelle Bloch has begun a prospective collaboration with researchers at Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in order to extend the spatial representation tools she is developing to consider ramifications in the spatial representation of music. She received the Blondel Medal in 2008, which rewards each year the exceptional work of a young scientist.

Laura Draetta is associate professor at Télécom Paris, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Innovation (I3), associate researcher at the Chair of Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development, UQAM, Montreal, associate researcher at the C2S Chair, and guest researcher at the University of California at Berkley, Department of History of Science and Technology.

Her areas of research lie at the intersection of environmental sociology, innovation sociology and science and technology studies (STS). She is mainly interested in the processes of confrontation that associate, and sometimes oppose, technology, environment and society in the construction of innovation. Drawing on national and international fields of investigation (Italy, China, United States), her work focuses on two main research areas: Industrial Environmentalism and Responsible Innovation in the era of the risk society, as well as Science, Technology, Environment and Audience.

Keywords: Sustainable development, Industrial environmentalism, Responsible innovation, CSR, EPR, Green-IT, Eco-design, e-waste, Socio-technical controversies, Social perception of risk, RFID, Smart meters, Quantified self.

Francesco Ferranti obtained his electrical engineering doctorate at Ghent University, Belgium, in 2011. He is currently university professor (agrégé) in the Microwave Department of Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) Atlantique, France.

He has authored and co-authored 54 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, 50 in peer-reviewed international conferences and two book chapters. His areas of research include parameterized macromodeling and model order reduction, adaptive sampling techniques, uncertainty quantification and microwave design and characterization.

He is an IEEE Senior Member. In 2012, he was awarded the Anile-ECMI Prize for Mathematics in Industry as well as the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Society President’s Memorial Award. He was president of the IEEE workshop program on Signal and Power Integrity (SPI), as well as secretary of the international workshop on Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimeter-Waves Circuits (INMMMIC) in 2014. He is a member of the technical program committees of the IEEE SPI workshop, of the IEEE conference on the Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and of the Systems (EPEPS) and on the international IEEE conference on Electromagnetic Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO).

Christian Person was awarded a doctorate in electronics from Université de Brest in 1994. Since 1991, he has been assistant professor in the Microwave Department of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne in Brest, France. In 2003, he became professor at Institut Télécom / Télécom Bretagne (now IMT Atlantique) where he currently undertakes research in the Information and Communication Science and Technology Laboratory (lab-STICC).

He contributes to the development of new technologies for hyper frequency and millimeter-wave applications. His work focuses especially on the design of passive functions (filters, couplers) and antennas, providing original solutions in terms of synthesis process, optimization analysis procedures, as well as technological implementation (foam, plastic, LTCC, etc.).

His research areas also include silicon-based RF front-ends, currently contributing to a range of French and European research programs on SoC / SiP antennas and reconfigurable structures for smart systems.

Christophe Roblin has been associate professor at Télécom Paris since the fall of 2010. He has been associate professor at ENSTA Paris (École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Paris) for 18 years and the head of the Microwave team since 1995. He graduated in electrical engineering from École Nationale de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace in 1987 and obtained his doctorate on sub-millimeter sensors for radio astronomy in 1992. Christophe Roblin has extensive experience in the design and modeling of antennas and high-frequency circuit boards.

Since 2002, his areas of research have focused on ultrawide-bandwidth (UWB) communications, especially the design of UWB antennas, characterization and parametric modeling. He is also involved in antenna and channel topics for body area networks, as well as in the modeling of statistical antennas.

He made significant contributions to several European projects: ADAMO (FP4), ULTRAWAVES (FP5) and PULSERS I & II. He also led the ENSTA PULSERS I team as well as the BANET project on the ANR WBAN. He took part in the FP7 SELECT projects (relating to hybrid UHF / UWB RFID with location functions – RTLS) and LEXNET (exposure to electromagnetic fields). Christophe Roblin has authored and co-authored around 150 articles, communications, technical reports and book chapters.

Shanshan Wang worked for her doctorate on the modeling and performance evaluation of spatially-correlated cellular networks at the Signals and Systems Laboratory (CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay). She defended her thesis in 2019.

She then joined C2M, where her main areas of research are: artificial intelligence in the assessment of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure, including spatial reconstruction and prediction of EMF exposure in various scenarios (inside or outside for example), measurement and monitoring of EMF exposure using spectrometers and sensor networks, as well as stochastic geometry in the modeling of current and future cellular networks.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, EMF exposure, stochastic geometry, wireless network modeling