SIM Project Partners

The scientific coordinator of the "Smart IoT for Mobility" project is François Verdier, professor at the Université Côte d’Azur (formerly Université Nice Sophia-Antipolis) since 2010, specialist in the modelling of SoC type digital architectures, deputy director of the laboratory of Electronics, Antennas, and Telecommunications (LEAT – UMR 7248) and member of the only existing University Graduate School (EUR) clearly oriented around the digital sciences (Digital Systems for Humans: DS4H). He has been a partner of numerous ANR projects since 2005, notably the OveRSoC project (which ended in 2008), which was oriented towards the development of SystemC RTOS models, the ANR FosFor project, which was more oriented towards self-reconfigurable architectures and the software issues raised.
He was more recently a partner of the ANR HOPE project where he participated in the development of a SystemC-TLM / C ++ library to add the consumed power constraints within the systems-on-chip models. He was also a partner of a major project of the Systematic competitiveness cluster in Île de France (the TeraOps project completed in 2010) where it was proposed to develop an overlay of the RTOS models that he had developed elsewhere. He is the coordinator of several projects that are all on the scope of this “Smart IoT for Mobility” project. He is moving to a real trans-disciplinary approach with lawyers and economists and breaking technologies (smart contracts and blockchain) but where the competencies gathered within the partnership he has built cover all the disciplines concerned.

LEAT - UCA CNRS 7248 researchers:

A team of SHS faculty members from Université of Côte d’Azur is also in this partnership and is led by Lise Arena, Researcher in Management and Organization Studies, Lecturer in Information Systems Management at Université Côte d’Azur and member of GREDEG, UMR CNRS 7321. She will manage the economics partnership, and particularly with the Laboratory of Experimental Economics of Nice (LEEN-Nice Lab). Agnès Festré, Professor of Economics is director of LEEN of Complexity and Cognition Lab (CoCoLab), an experimental platform for Social Sciences located at the “Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société Sud-Est” from Université Côte d’Azur. CoCoLab is a unique experimental platform to study individual and interactive decision-making contexts with the help of behavioral and physiological devices (eye-tracking, facial expression recognition, keystrokes, scrolls, and mouse clicks recording, electrodermal response, heart rate variability) in order to better understand the behavior of economic actors.
Caroline Lequesne-Roth is a researcher at Université Cote d'Azur, member of GREDEG (UMR 7321) and the Perelman Center for Philosophy of Law. She is the co-founder of the Deep Law for Tech (DL4T) and director of the FabLex DL4T where her research themes are articulated around the disciplines of economic law, global law and philosophy of law. She is particularly interested in the emergence of new forms of normativity in financial matters and the implications of blockchain phenomena and connected objects on the structures of power: blockchain, cryptocurrency and smart cities from the point of view of techno-governmentality.

Gredeg - UCA CNRS 7321 researchers:

The computer scientific approach will be managed by Frédéric Mallet, professor at Université Côte d'Azur, deputy director of the Informatics, Signal and Systems in Sophia-Antipolis laboratory (I3S – UMR 7271) and specialist in formal languages and in Domain Specific Languages. He is member of the laboratory I3S and is inside a joint team between INRIA and I3S. He will be interested on the definition of a Domain Specific Language dedicated to the formal specification, verification and orchestration of smart contracts.

I3S - UCA CNRS 7271 researchers:

• Frédéric Mallet, Professor
• Marie-Agnès Péraldi-Frati, Assistant Professor
• Julien De Antoni, Assistant Professor
• Enlin Zhu, PhD student

We have also built this partnership with the company Renault Software Labs (Patricia Guitton-Ouhamou, doctor-engineer) who participated with us in the definition of a use-case oriented around the virtual passport (the Smart Service Book) with an extension towards insurance and the impacts of blockchain solutions on governance and rewards.

Renault researchers:

• Patricia Guitton-Ouhamou, Doctor Engineer
• Séverine Glock, Engineer
• David Bercovitz, Engineer 

• Julien Bonnel, Engineer
• Bertrand Goetzman, Engineer
• Bruno Coste, Engineer