Re: [nwcrg] Vincent Roca - Ordre du mérite - France

[whyeung <[e-mail]>]

Dear Vincent,

Thank you for letting us know the details. Wonderful.

Congratulations again!

Raymond

> On Nov 11, 2021, at 1:24 AM, Vincent Roca <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am impressed by all your supportive messages and I would like to thank you all, warmly.
> To be honest, when I informed Marie-Jose, I didn’t anticipate she would send it to the list (see here a sign of modesty).
> 
> So I now owe an explanation to you, especially as this is pretty far away from my NWCRG involvement…
> 
> Since 2019, I’m also the PRIVATICS team <https://team.inria.fr/privatics/team-members/> leader, an Inria research team specialized in privacy and data protection.
> Since March 2020, with my PRIVATICS colleagues, we designed from scratch the ROBERT Contact Tracing <https://github.com/ROBERT-proximity-tracing/documents> protocol first, and later the CLEA Presence Tracing <https://github.com/TousAntiCovid/CLEA-exposure-verification> protocols, both of which are embedded in our French national TousAntiCovid app <https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/tousanticovid/id1511279125>.
> It was very hard and difficult work, but it laid the foundations of our sovereign app (i.e., we do not depend on the Google/Apple GAEN system at all).
> Over the time, many features have been added to this app (e.g., stats, news, advices, attestations, sanitarian pass), which became one of the key tools of the French Health Authority, regularly used by more than 1/3 of the population.
> Of course, I haven’t been involved in all the topics, this is the result of the (very hard) work of more than 150 people, from 8 different public/private organisations, but Inria led the whole consortium.
> 
> Seven people received this distinction, 5 of which from Inria, I’m one of them.
> Here is the result, with the Knight medal of the French Order of Merit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordre_national_du_M%C3%A9rite>:
> 
> <IMG_2404.jpeg>
> 
> As you can imagine, I’ve been very busy during months and often obliged to limit my NWCRG involvement.
> I hope it didn’t impact too seriously our group.
> 
> That was a summary of the very long story...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>    Vincent
> 
> ----
> Vincent Roca, PhD/HDR, PRIVATICS team leader, Inria research institute, France
> https://privatics.inrialpes.fr/people/roca/ <https://privatics.inrialpes.fr/people/roca/>
> 
>> Le 7 nov. 2021 à 13:42, Marie-Jose Montpetit <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> a écrit :
>> 
>> List:
>> 
>> it’s an honor for our group to have our co-chair’s contribution to FEC and Network Coding recognized by his receiving of the “Ordre du mérite” of the French government this Tuesday November 9.
>> 
>> Please join me in congratulating me for this major achievement. 
>> 
>> mjm
>> Marie-José Montpetit, Ph.D.
>> [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
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