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.

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

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

The second laureate is Clément Charenton, CNRS researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC) CNRS/Inserm/Université de Strasbourg. The award ceremony was held on 9 November 2022.

This prize, awarded in memory of Claude Paoletti, former director of the life sciences department of the CNRS, aims to support young researchers in biology. Read more here.

Congratulations!

Justine Cassell, PR[AI]RIE chair, was there representing French Digital Council as PR[AI]RIE and Inria.

In the beginning of November, Justine Cassell also took part in The AI Quorum Retreat in Abu Dhabi that met to discuss the future of AI. The AI Quorum is a series of high-level gatherings designed to stimulate cutting-edge AI research with leading scientists and share an understanding of the discipline as a force for good.

How can an algorithm create art or compose music? Is AI a threat or an opportunity for the art market? Listen to the latest podcast on AI and art by Florian Yger, PR[AI]RIE chair.

The OCEAN project stands for “On intelligenCE And Networks: Synergistic research in Bayesian Statistics, Microeconomics and Computer Sciences”. It is run by 4 teams, each led by a senior scientist.

One of them is coordinated by Christian Robert, who works together with another PR[AI]RIE chair Stéphanie Allassonniere. The team is based at the Centre de Recherche en Mathématiques de la Décision (CEREMADE).

Read more here. Congratulations!

Les 21, 22 et 23 novembre 2022

Santé, finance, éthique, régulation, médias…
Comment l’intelligence artificielle transforme-t-elle
en profondeur notre société ?

L’Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, en partenariat avec l’institut 3IA PRAIRIE et Les Échos, vous invite à :
3 jours de conférences-débatssur les impacts de l’IA

Avec la participation de scientifiques de l’Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, d’expertes et d’experts internationaux du domaine (médaillés Fields et du CNRS, chercheurs de Berkeley, Washington University, membres de l’OMS, de l’Académie des Sciences, du Conseil d’État, journalistes de l’AFP, des Échos…) :

5 THÉMATIQUES :

• LA RÉGULATION DES PLATEFORMES – Lundi 21 nov. (09H-12H30)
• ACCEPTABILITÉ & ÉTHIQUE DE L’IA – Lundi 21 nov. (14H-19H)
• SANTÉ NUMÉRIQUE – Mardi 22 nov. (09H-12H)
• FINANCE ET IA – Mardi 22 nov. (14H-18H)
• L’IMPACT DE L’IA DANS LES MÉDIAS – Mercredi 23 nov. (09H-12H30)

ET LA SOIRÉE DAUPHINE DIGITAL DAYS – Mardi 22 nov. (18H-22H)

Infos & Inscriptions

Since 2020, the Innovators’ Prize created by the Île-de-France Region, aims to encourage, support and promote research, technology transfer and innovation in the medical field.

Each year, the Innovators’ Prize rewards three researchers under 45 years of age and their teams for the quality of their work in the field of health. A total of €100,000 award aims to help them advance their research work. Read more here.

Congratulations!

His supervisors were two PR[AI]RIE chairs: Laurent Massoulié and Marc Lelarge.

The thesis studies the graph alignment problem, the noisy version of the graph isomorphism problem, which aims to find a matching between the nodes of two graphs which preserves most of the edges. Focusing on the planted version where the graphs are random, we are interested in understanding the fundamental information-theoretical limits for this problem, as well as designing and analyzing algorithms that are able to recover the underlying alignment in the data. For these algorithms, we give some theoretical high probability guarantees of the regime in which they succeed or fail. 

For further info, and the manuscript, please visit https://lganassali.github.io/

Through the campaign PSL University aims to hire 6 AI Affiliate Professors and 1 Junior Fellow in AI applied to the humanities.

You can find the announcements describing the requirements and the application process here :

1. Junior fellow IA
2. AI Affiliate professor

We interact with robots unconsciously in the same way that we interact with humans using our bodies. For example, we unknowingly monitor eye movements, hand gesture and smile, and draw conclusions about the trustworthiness of the person in front of us and about their engagement in the conversation. This ability to use the body to engage in getting to know the other person begins at birth and lasts throughout life. It’s exciting to realise that you do the same thing with a robot!

Read an exclusive interview with Justine Cassell, PR[AI]RIE Chair, which appeared in “La Vie” on 19 August.

Three days of talks and roundtables clustered around 5 main themes will take place on 21, 22 and 23 November 2022 at the University of Paris Dauphine – PSL. The themes proposed are: Digital Plateform Regulation, Justice and Fairness Issues, Digital Health, AI and Finance, and Digital and Information.

More info here. Don’t miss information on registration coming up early September!

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing is the flagship event of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Read the winning article here.