ILabBot | An autonomous mobile robot for the pharmaceutical industry

The objective of the ILabBot project is to develop an intelligent robot capable of performing tasks autonomously in an unstructured pharmaceutical environment where human operators are present. Based on an existing robot, an efficient control architecture will be designed to allow it to navigate in an unstructured indoor space, to manipulate objects not necessarily intended for it, and to interact with human operators. The work in this project will enable the robot to perform different tasks within the strict constraints of its working environment.

Dr Muhanad Hayder Mohammed will spend 3 years at the naXys Institute (Professor Elio TUCI's team) working on the project. The researcher has a strong background in adaptive and autonomous robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence gained in India, Iraq and the UK. He will work in partnership with the company CISEO.

VeCTrA | A secure system for sharing decentralised data

The objective of this project is to use the principles of self-sovereign identities to design, develop and test a decentralised system for sharing data, particularly health-related data, in a secure, minimally disclosable manner in an environment where the identity of subjects cannot be reliably established. The system will develop a flexible and adaptive trust model. The solution will aim to ensure data integrity, authenticity and traceability of access.

Dr. Dara TITH, will work for 3 years on the project at the NaDI Institute (Professor Jean-Noël COLIN's team). This researcher has developed all the necessary skills for the project (privacy-preserving data mining, blockchain, cryptography, etc.) during his master's degree at the Institute of Technology in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and during his PhD at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan in recent years. He will work in partnership with SAVICS.

The BEWARE research programme of the SPW

The BEWARE Fellowships 2 programme (for BElgian WAllonia REsearcher) is funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of the European Commission (COFUND - contract 847587) and the Public Service of Wallonia Research. It allows researchers from all over the world to finance their postdoctoral stays in Wallonia. The strong point of this programme is that it proposes joint university-industry projects. BEWARE thus strengthens the links between companies and universities in the Walloon Region and opens the doors of research in companies to researchers, after an academic career.

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