This work presents a formal specification and security proof for an important component of the new Messaging Layer Security Protocol (MLS) standard and represents several years of collaboration with the IETF MLS working group.

Théophile Wallez is a PhD student in the Prosecco team at Inria Paris. His work is funded by PR[AI]RIE and focuses on the formal security and privacy analysis of large-scale multi-party cryptographic protocols.

Karthikeyan Bhargavan is Directeur de Recherche at Inria Prosecco and a Prairie Chaire. He is currently on a leave of absence to work on Cryspen, a Prairie Startup and associated partner that builds high-assurance security software for use in multiple domains, including privacy-preserving machine learning.

You can read the paper here.

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Dauphine Digital Days, 2^e édition
du 20 au 22 novembre 2023 Santé, droit, éthique, économie, finance, médias…
IA et société : nouvelle donne, nouveaux enjeux

L’Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, en partenariat avec l’Institut 3IA PRAIRIE, vous invite à la 2^e édition du cycle de conférences dédié à l’intelligence artificielle et ses impacts sur la société

Programme des conférences :

• Quels régimes de régulation des données pour entraîner les intelligences artificielles ? – Lundi 20 nov. (14h-18h)
• IA & Médias, quand tout s’accélère – Mardi 21 nov. (9h-12h)
• Quelle utilisation de l’IA par les juristes ? – Mardi 21 nov. (14h-18h)
• IA génératives : quels enjeux pour le futur du travail ? – Mardi 21 nov. (18h) par les entreprises du Cercle Dauphine Numérique, en partenariat avec la House of Entrepreneurship
• Évaluation et régulation des services de santé numériques – Mercredi 22 nov. (9h-12h)
• Blockchain et finance décentralisée – Mer. 22 nov. (14h-18h)

Et la Soirée Dauphine Digital Days avec la remise de Prix du meilleur poster scientifique – Mercredi 22 nov. (18h-22h)

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France has entered in the generative AI race, whose flagships are large language models. Convinced that open science is the path to a more inclusive and responsible AI, beneficial to society, Prairie is proud to be partnering Meta’s initiative through 3 of its researchers Jamal Atif, Jean Ponce, Benoît Sagot alongside the other partners on the occasion of the launch of Llama2, a completely open language model.

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We’re happy to announce that by decree of the President of the Republic on July 13, 2023, Isabelle Ryl, PR[AI]RIE Director, has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in recognition of her 24-years service.

Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!

See the list of all nominees here.

Outstanding news from our associated partner Sonio!

Sonio has raised $14 million in the Series A fundraising (the next round of funding after the seed funding). This significant investment will allow Sonio to launch sales in the United States, accelerate R&D to advance in imaging and genomics capabilities and adapt their innovative technology for portable ultrasound devices and Point of Care.

Congratulations to the whole team!

Listen to the interview with Cécile Brosset, CEO and Co-founder of Sonio.

The AI4health summer school was co-organized by the Health Data Hub and the Interdisciplinary Institutes for Artificial Intelligence (3IA): MIAI (Grenoble), 3IA Côte d’Azur (Nice) and PR[AI]RIE (Paris). 

Aimed at students (first/second year masters, PhD), post-docs, academics, members of public institutions, and professionals, it took place both at PariSanté Campus, Paris and online from July 3rd to 7th, 2023.

This Summer School covered the latest advances in the field of AI and data science applied to health. It started with three days of plenary sessions with lectures and use cases, led by international speakers, accessible on site and online. They were followed by two days of hands-on practical sessions, led by experts, for the on-site participants only.

Céline Beji leads the MyTreatment project, which originates from the LAMSADE laboratory, Dauphine – PSL, and is supported by PSL Valorisation.

Every year, the number of detected cancer cases increases, as do the treatment options available to deal with them, such as surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and targeted therapies. All these treatments have the disadvantage of having serious side-effects and being very costly, but above all they have variable effects depending on the individual. The challenge is to find the most appropriate treatment for each patient, using personalised medicine. MyTreatment proposes to put the latest advances in causal inference at the service of doctors, by creating tools to help them prescribe anti-cancer treatments on an individualised basis.

Congratulations Céline!

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The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) serves as an honor society that recognizes expertise in biomedical and health informatics internationally and is one of the highest honors in the field. Its goal is to promote the dissemination of knowledge and best practices, foster new ideas, and encourage worldwide collaboration and sharing of expertise and resources.

Congratulations!

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Justine Cassell was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Edinburgh for her contributions to the field of informatics and in particular her groundbreaking work on conversational agents.

The ceremony took part on 4th July. Congratulations on this great achievement!

Awarded annually, the Körber European Science Prize honours a distinguished scientist actively conducting research in the fields of either Life Sciences or Physical Sciences in Europe.

Cordelia Schmid is a pioneer in computer-aided image processing. She developed revolutionary new procedures that enable computers to understand image content. Thanks to her algorithms, AI can locate a motif or an object in a database of images within a fraction of a second.

Congratulations!

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The research interests of Laurent Massoulié include unsupervised learning, distributed machine learning, modeling and algorithmic design for distributed systems and networks. His work has led to significant advancements in the field, particularly in the areas of congestion control, P2P networks and epidemic processes, community detection, and distributed optimization for federated learning. This research has provided critical insights into fundamental performance trade-offs and resolution of open problems, and allowed for the design of new algorithms for distributed control of systems.

His work has been influential and transformative, not just within the SIGMETRICS community, but also in other communities such as applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, and information theory.

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AVATAR MEDICAL helps surgeons better prepare their procedures through the use of virtual reality representations or avatars of their patients. More than 100 surgeons from 20 different hospitals and universities, including UMass Chan Medical School, The City University of New York, and Columbia University, have benefited from the solution.

To date, it has been used for case studies, student education, and patient engagement, leading to 6 medical publications. The FDA clearance paves the way for surgeons to adopt the solution in the treatment of their patients.

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The IABM Congress was co-organized by three 3IA Institutes: 3IA Côte d’Azur (Marco Lorenzi, Ellen Van Obberghen-Schilling), MIAI (Florence Forbes, Benjamin Lemasson) and PR[AI]RIE (Olivier Colliot, Laure Fournier, Thomas Walter).

The event was honoured by the participation of Cédric Villani who moderated the session on the future of AI in biomedicine.

The Congress gathered attendees from all over the country: from Rennes to Bordeaux, from Reims to Marseille, from Brest to Strabourg, from Tours to Dijon, from Nantes to Toulouse and many more… The conference was already full just 10 days after the registration opened. This highlights the strength of the French community in this field. Future editions will need more space!

This statistical model forecasts the progression of Alzheimer’s disease several years in advance, using only the current medical data of a patient at an early stage of the disease. With testing on over 96,000 cases from 4,600 patients in 4 continents, the accuracy of this model is unmatched.

Not only is AD Course Map unbiased with regard to sex and geographical origin, but it is also robust to missing data. This allows us to make more informed and timely decisions about the best time to test new treatments in patients. In fact, the team has shown that using AD Course Map can decrease the required sample size by up to 50% in clinical trials!

At its core, AD Course Map will help us care for patients earlier and better, by anticipating disease progression and empowering both patients and care teams with the information they need to make the best decisions.

Read full article here.

Following this call, already a 3rd cohort of students will begin their PhD, starting in autumn 2023. The deadline for applications is 31 March.

AI4theSciences is supported and cofunded by the Horizon 2020-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-COFUND European program.

This ERC aims to create a search engine of all sequencing data that has been produced by biology labs worldwide. The data exists and currently resides in a public repository called Sequence Read Archive, hosted jointly at two large biological institutes in Europe and USA: NCBI and EBI. However this mass of data is relatively inaccessible, as it is too big to be downloaded by any single lab. It consists of tens of petabytes of sequences, from millions of organisms, and of course lots of human sequences.

The project run by Rayan Chikhi aims to solve this accessibility problem, using new data structures and compression schemes, enabling global biological analyses to be performed over all of this data in short time. Such a global analysis has been recently performed, at a great time and computational cost, which enabled the discovery of new coronavirus species.

Read more here. Congratulations!

EIC Accelerator stands for the European Innovation Council Accelerator, the leading fund in supporting European deep-tech companies. Among 1092 projects submitted in the current cohort, only 78 companies (including 9 French) were selected by the EIC Accelerator. The co-founder of Sonio is Stéphanie Allassonnière, the CSO of Avatar Medical is Jean-Baptiste Masson. Congratulations!

Founded in 2020, Sonio is the only SaaS platform that empowers healthcare professionals to secure prenatal care by combining technological innovation, medical expertise, and collective intelligence. It provides a unique AI software that associates the knowledge of prenatal medicine practitioners with all types of medical, imaging, genetic and environmental data to optimize prenatal screening and diagnosis.

AVATAR MEDICAL™ was founded in 2020 by a French and American team of entrepreneurs, physicists, engineers, and surgeons to enable shorter, safer, and less invasive surgeries. With AVATAR MEDICAL™’s VR solution, surgeons can better prepare their procedures by interacting with an ultra-fluid, photo-realistic VR representation of their patients’ medical images.

The list contains 100 names of innovators and outstanding minds who give meaning to digital technology and who, through their achievements, ideas, choices or actions, contribute to a more efficient, more resilient, fairer and more sustainable society.

We are very proud of this distinction for Isabelle Ryl! This is also an important recognition that research taking place within PR[AI]RIE Institute is a driver of innovation.

Read more here.

This event was labelled by La French Tech, and organised in partnership with PR[AI]RIE and the French daily Les Echos. This first edition of the Dauphine Digital Days brought together 40 international experts and nearly 1000 participants.

President of Dauphine-PSL El Mouhoub Mouhoud opened the first edition alongside Isabelle Ryl, Director of PRAIRIE and Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister Delegate for Digital Transition and Telecommunications.

If you missed the event, here are the replays from thematic sessions:

• “Platforms regulation” (and opening speeches)
• “Social acceptability and ethics of AI”
• “Digital Health”
• “Finance and Artificial Intelligence”
• “Digital and information: the impact of AI in the media”

More on the event here.

The Cifre thesis of Van Huy Vo was supervised by Patrick Perez from Valeo.ai and Jean Ponce, PR[AI]RIE Scientific Director and chair holder.

Here is a short abstract of the thesis: Object detectors are important components in many intelligent systems. They are typically obtained with fully-supervised training which require costly annotated data. This thesis considers annotation-efficient alternatives to fully-supervised object detection. In particular, we discuss several approaches to Unsupervised Object Discovery, which aims to link images containing similar objects and localize these without any supervision. We also introduce a framework which combines active learning and weakly-supervised object detection that demonstrates a better detection performance / annotation cost trade-off than both fully- and weakly-supervised object detection.