Short Bio
Nicholas Ayache is a research director at Inria, where he leads the EPIONE research team, dedicated to the digital patient and digital medicine. He is also the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary AI Institute 3IA Côte d’Azur, where he holds a research chair. His current research focuses on the introduction of AI algorithms to guide the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of patients based on their medical images and all available data. N. Ayache is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy of Surgery. In 2013-2014 he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France, where he introduced a new course on the “personalized digital patient”. N. Ayache published over 400 highly cited scientific articles and a dozen of industrial patents, and co-founded seven high-tech companies. He has been a member of several strategic boards in France and abroad, including the strategic council of the new IHU RespirERA in Nice, dedicated to lung diseases.
Further information: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nicholas.Ayache/ayache.html
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=29XL16UAAAAJ