Chairs in AI and data science

Finance, energy, healthcare, data

Through four axes, cryptography, consensus, smart contracts, and digital assets, the "Blockchain & B2B Platforms" Chair, supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs, and the Caisse des Dépôts, supports a research team and offers teaching on blockchains. Led by Daniel Augot and Julien Prat, the Chair aims to answer the questions raised by the application of blockchain to areas such as health data, supply chains, decentralised finance, central bank digital currencies, or sustainable development projects.

Holders: Julien Prat, CNRS researcher at the Centre de recherche en économie et de statistiques (CREST – joint research unit CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique)  and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Daniel Augot, research director at the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (Inria) and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Sponsorship type: chair
Creation date: 01/10/2018
Partners: Fondation de l'X

Innovation, science des données, ingénierie

Held by Éric Moulines, the Chair « Data Science and industrial processes » aims to train a new engineer generation at the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique to exploit data science and develop innovative industrial processes. Throught the Chair’s teaching activities since 2018 and with the support of OCP, the partners prepare together students to become industrial innovators and to develop tomorrow’s industrial processes thanks to data science.

Holder: Eric Moulines, researcher at the Centre de mathématiques appliquées (CMAP – joint research unit CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique), professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and member of the Académie des sciences
Sponsorship type: chair
Creation date: 01/05/2018
Partners: Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique, Fondation de l'X

Computer science, AI, cybersecurity, networks

Created in 2020, the "Internet Technologies and Engineering" Chair is headed by Thomas Clausen and supported by Cisco. The Chair develops higher education in Internet technologies based on research conducted jointly by X and its sponsor. These projects are organised into a portfolio, focusing in particular on high-capacity networks (5G, WiFi6, etc.), quantum networks and cloud architectures.

Holder: Thomas Clausen, Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Sponsorship type: chair
Creation date: 18/12/2020
Partners: Fondation de l'X

Data management, statistics, big data

Supported since 2017 by Orange, and by the Société Générale Côte d'Ivoire since 2021, the patronage « Data Science Institute », held by Eric Moulines, aims to accelerate the skill improvement of data management in Ivory Coast and in western Africa. Housed in ivory institutions, the Institut national polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB) and the Ecole nationale supérieure de statistique et d’économie appliquée, the patronage establishes an international excellency university course in data science, firstly for students, secondly for managers.

Holders: Éric Moulines, researcher at the Centre de mathématiques appliquées (CMAP – joint research unit CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique), professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris and member of the Académie des sciences
Lambert Tanoh, director of the Mathématiques Informatique department at the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Jean-Arnaud Kouakou, teacher-researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et d’Économie Appliquée
Sponsorship type: patronage
Creation date: 28/06/2017
Partners: École nationale supérieure de l'électronique et de ses applications, Institut national polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Fondation de l'X

Personalised medicine, medicine efficiency, big data

Created in 2020, the « Innovation numérique et science des données en santé » patronage aims to design modelisation and statistical learning tools to improve healthcare patient path. Sponsored by Sanofi and held by Etienne Minvielle and Marc Lavielle, this patronage’s research focus on the customisation of therapeutic treatments, thanks to a better understanding of how medicine evolves and affects the organisms that takes it.

Holders: Étienne Minvielle, CNRS research director at the Centre de recherche en gestion (I3-CRG – joint research unit CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique) and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris healthcare practitioner at Gustave Roussy.
Marc Lavielle, Inria research director at the Centre de mathématiques appliquées (CMAP – joint research unit CNRS – Ecole Polytechnique) and professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris.
Sponsorship type: sponsorship
Creation date: 20/12/2019
Partenaires : Fondation de l'X

Trustworthy, cybersecurity, ethics, sustainability

Created in 2023, this Chair is headed by Sonia Vanier. Supported by Crédit Agricole's DataLab, the programme aims to contribute to the development of systems based on trusted artificial intelligence¹ that are ethical, robust, secure and sustainable.

Holder: Sonia Vanier, researcher at the École polytechnique's Computer Science Laboratory (LIX*) and professor in its Computer Science Department (DIX).
Sponsorship type: Chair
Creation date: 26/03/2024
Partners: Fondation de l'X

¹As stated by Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Europe fit for the digital age.
*LIX: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France

Mobility, optimisation, sustainability, maintenance

Created in 2024, this Chair is headed by Sonia Vanier. Supported by the SNCF Group, its aim is to develop innovative AI-based technologies to improve the quality of public transport service, optimise freight transport and encourage the use of more sustainable mobility. This includes optimising transport infrastructure management, ensuring the reliability of rolling stock through predictive maintenance, planning road maintenance tasks, predicting the dates of works to minimise their impact on traffic, and predicting delays and their repercussions to improve passenger information.

Holder: Sonia Vanier, researcher at the École polytechnique's Computer Science Laboratory (LIX*) and professor in its Computer Science Department (DIX).
Sponsorship type: Chair
Creation date: 04/09/2024
Partners: Fondation de l'X

*LIX: a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France