Life at the LRDE

At the LRDE, we are a small community where teaching staff and students share all the lab's facilities. A meeting room and a library offer some space for relaxation, common lunch and casual interactions between all the lab members. Students, interns, PhD students all have their own desks with computers, just as the researchers, either in common offices or right next door. This closeness generates discussions between people and stimulates research.

Alumni

Since almost 15 years, EPITA students have shared this working atmosphere at the LRDE and have graduated from EPITA with a real research experience. Indeed a unique feature of the LRDE is education by research: we offer to a handful of EPITA students to integrate the research community right from the first year of the engineering cycle. This work situated between teaching and research generates pre-doctoral students.

104 students have thereby integrated the LRDE in eleven years. Each of them has had his desk next to his/her supervisor, each has participated in the research activities of the latter and some of them have even been able to present their work results at international conferences. Many of the students have done their final internship at research labs in France or abroad. 43 have continued with a Master's degree (M2 research), 14 hold their PhD degree and 15 are currently PhD students. Today one LRDE alumnus works at CNRS (French Centre for Scientific Research) and three alumni are assistant professors:

CSI seminars

The research conducted by LRDE students (CSI) is publicly presented. The attendance is free, open to anyone, and requires no subscription.