Congratulations to Kawthar Berjawi, Abdelhamid Ladaycia and Inbar Fijalkow for their Best Paper Award in the 2026 edition of the International Conference on Emerging Tends in Engineering and Computing (ETECOM).

They were awarded with their co-author, Karim Abed-Meraim from the PRISME Laboratory and the University of Orleans in recognition of their outstanding research paper Performance Bounds for Semi-Blind Channel Estimation in Asynchronous Cell-Free MIMO-OFDM.

This award was garnered from the M2 internship of Kawthar Berjawi under the supervision of Abdelhamid Ladaycia and Inbar Fijalkow in the ICI team of the ETIS laboratory.