17.07.2023
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.
12.07.2023
More than 300 participants, coming from over 25 countries, took part both onsite and online, in the last edition of AI4Health Summer School.
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.
10.07.2023
Launched in 2019 by the government in partnership with BPI France, i-PhD is a competition that aims to attract doctoral students and young PhDs to promote their work with a view of creating Deeptech start-ups. For its 4th edition, 50 young PSL researchers have been rewarded, including 6 from PSL University. They will benefit from 12 months of support to explore their research subject from a completely different angle.
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!
06.07.2023
The International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) has announced the 2023 class of Academy Fellows. Anita Burgun, PR[AI]RIE chair, has been elected as one of the fellows.
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!
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!
03.07.2023
We are happy to announce that PR[AI]RIE chair Cordelia Schmid has been awarded Körber European Science Prize 2023.
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!
28.06.2023
Laurent Massoulié, PR[AI]RIE chair and a member of DYOGENE team at Inria, has been awarded the 2023 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the theory and practice of large-scale distributed networks and systems.
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.
13.06.2023
Avatar Medical is one of the associated partners of PR[AI]RIE. The FDA clearance for their virtual reality (VR) surgical planning solution marks a major milestone for the team and is a game-changer for the medical field.
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.
31.03.2023
On March 30-31, more than 200 participants from all over France attended the 1st French Congress on AI in Biomedical Imaging (IABM 2023).
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!
28.03.2023
Don’t miss the latest article by the team of PR[AI]RIE chair, Stanley Durrlemann, published in the Nature Communications. It presents a new powerful tool in the fight against Alzheimer's disease: AD Course Map.
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.
22.02.2023
Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences (AI4theSciences) is a doctoral program run by Université PSL, within which more than 20 PhD contracts at the interfaces of artificial intelligence or big data processing are offered.
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.
06.02.2023
Rayan Chikhi, PR[AI]RIE chair, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for the project called "Planetary scale indexing of sequencing data".
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!
20.12.2022
Two start-ups co-founded by PR[AI]RIE chairs, Avatar Medical and Sonio, have been selected for funding through the EIC Accelerator.
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.
16.12.2022
Alliancy, the magazine focused on IT and business, has published a list of 100 personalities who shape the digital future in France. Isabelle Ryl, PR[AI]RIE Director has been recognised as one of them.
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.
07.12.2022
Between 21 and 23 November 2022, the Université Paris Dauphine-PSL hosted three days of conferences and debates on the impact of artificial intelligence on society.
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:
More on the event here.
30.11.2022
On November 28, Huy Vo defended his PhD thesis entitled “Annotation-efficient learning for object discovery and detection". Congratulations!
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.
28.11.2022
Artificial Intelligence for the Sciences (AI4theSciences) is a doctoral program run by Université PSL, within which more than 20 PhD contracts at the interfaces of artificial intelligence or big data processing are offered.
23.11.2022
Laura Cantini, Pr[AI]RIE chair and CNRS researcher at the Institute of Biology of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS) CNRS/ ENS/ Inserm received the Paoletti Prize for her research work.
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!
14.11.2022
What does it take to use AI appropriately? Experts from France, Germany and Japan met last week in Tokio at the 3rd Trilateral Symposium to discuss strategies to prepare society for the major role that AI will play in the future.
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.