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INTERNATIONAL RADAR CONFERENCE 2019

Thales teams will be present at the RADAR 2019 conference in Toulon. Thales experts will contribute to lecture sessions.

 

Recruitment - Talent Acquisition:

Possibility to meet our experts and our recruitment team on the Thales stand at this conference.

 

Keynote speakers:

PHOTO SADEKDavid Sadek is VP for Research, Technology & Innovation at Thales, particularly in charge of Artificial Intelligence & data processing. He was VP for Research at IMT (“Institut Mines-Télécom”) and, previously, VP for Research at Orange. Doctor in Computer Science and expert in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, he created and ran at Orange Labs for more than fifteen years the R&D activities and teams on intelligent agents and natural human-machine dialogue. His research work led to the design and implementation of the first worldwide technologies of conversational agents, as well as to ACL inter-agent communication language standard. He also directed several industrial transfer and service deployment programs. He was chairman of program evaluation committee "Digital Contents & Interactions" of the French National Research Agency (ANR). He is or was on numerous national and international research and innovation steering and evaluation committees, such as the steering board of the National Alliance on Digital Science (Allistene), and the scientific councils of Inria and of CNRS institute on “Information and communication science and technology”. He was a leader of FranceIA, the national strategy on Artificial Intelligence, and France representative within the G7 Innovators delegation. He also was a founder of the Ethics commission of Allistene (CERNA). 

During nearly ten years, David Sadek had been Orange Emeritus Expert. He got France Télécom Award for Best Technology Innovation, Orange Award for Best Service Innovation, European Customer Relationship Forum Award, and Blondel Medal in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science.

 Title : Artificial Intelligence in Radars

 Abstract : Antenna digitalization will increasingly enable to design full software-defined radars with more degrees of freedom (scalable front-end, digital beamforming with diverse beam shapes…), enhanced with intelligent resource management and graceful degradation by reconfiguration. Radars will become proactive to achieve more complex missions. They will integrate digital assistants to interact with human operators through intuitive multimodal dialogue.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms (optimization, learning, reasoning…) will foster the development of cognitive functions underlying innovative capabilities as self-adaptation, contextual inference and situation understanding. Coordinated in dense networks, radars will be able to optimize their resources in a collaborative way, potentially fully distributed, with advanced “what-if” capabilities to improve their agility and robustness to defeat new threats (hypersonic & hyper-maneuvering missiles, swarm of drones, stealth mobile objects, slow moving targets…). Such AI-based functions will help improve operational capacity in tactical anticipation.

As a result of radar’s full digital transformation, the radar's digital twin will enable to faster prototyping, algorithm design and AI-based augmented engineering. Thales TrUE AI (Transparent, Understandable and Ethical AI) strategy for a trustable and explainable AI will be also implemented in radar systems. Relying on a hybrid AI (combining model-based and data-driven approaches), it aims at paving the way to the design, the development, the validation and the certification of critical systems involving AI technologies.