Fribourg professor receives prestigious € 2 million grant
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4 March 2016
The European Research Council has just awarded a grant of 2 million euros to Philippe Cudré Mauroux, professor of Computer Science at the University of Fribourg. ERC Consolidator Grants are among the most prestigious awards that the European Research Council can confer. They are designed to back up research talents with proven potential who want […]
The European Research Council has just awarded a grant of 2 million euros to Philippe Cudré Mauroux, professor of Computer Science at the University of Fribourg.
ERC Consolidator Grants are among the most prestigious awards that the European Research Council can confer. They are designed to back up research talents with proven potential who want to establish or strengthen their research teams. Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, a professor at the University of Fribourg who formerly worked at MIT and the University of Berkeley, will use the funds to put together a top-level research team in the fields of cloud computing and data management.
Extracting information from big data is currently a daunting task due to their size and heterogeneity. “My goal is to develop systems capable of marrying up text, emails, photos or even GPS coordinates and, above all, of making sense of them”, he said in a press release. “If we manage to extract and analyze this immense amount of data, we will be able to construct extremely powerful predictive models to anticipate movements in stock market prices, to model and predict vehicle traffic (…) or even the buying habits of consumers”.
