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Adriana Tapus, a Professor at ENSTA's Computer Science and Systems Engineering Unit (U2IS*), is trying to ‘model’ humans in order to develop robots with cognitive abilities that can interact with people. Focus on the researcher's work on the occasion of the AI, Science and Society summit organized by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 6 and 7, 2025.

By analysing human-generated data, artificial intelligence can help refine medical diagnoses and adapt therapeutic treatments to individual patients. Nesma Houmani, Associate Professor at Télécom SudParis’s SAMOVAR lab, is working to meet the ‘concrete needs’ of medical teams in the field of neurodegenerative and chronic diseases. Focus on the researcher's work on the occasion of the AI, Science and Society summit organized by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 6 and 7, 2025.

Last December, the Institut Polytechnique of Paris (IP Paris) hosted a major event of the Deeptech Tour, organized in partnership with Bpifrance, on the occasion of the Institute's PhD students welcome day. The event brought together nearly 600 participants (students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and main innovation players) around a common goal: raising awareness about deeptech entrepreneurship and encouraging projects from research laboratories.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is pleased to announce the results of the 2024 edition of its call for projects, Prématuration IP Paris, a key initiative aimed at supporting innovative research and transforming ideas from its laboratories into solutions. This year, 16 promising projects will receive funding, further strengthening the innovation momentum within the IP Paris ecosystem.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will host an international conference on February 6-7, 2025 dedicated to exploring the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on science and society. As a key part of the AI Action Summit, these science days aim to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on technological innovation, scientific research, and societal evolution around AI.

The work of Nicolas Fabre - a lecturer in theoretical quantum technologies at Télécom Paris-IP Paris, and a member of the Information Processing and Communications Laboratory (LTCI*) - takes us into the universe of the infinitely small, and involves some surprising physics. The researcher takes advantage of the color of single photons to encode quantum information for use in quantum technologies. This research, presented at the IP Paris Science Day in September 2024, is finding an echo in the science of measurement (metrology) and communications.

Derived from extremely short-pulse laser technologies and based on light-matter interactions, multi-photon microscopy reveals information not observable with conventional microscopy. Emmanuel Beaurepaire is CNRS Research Director at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB) at École Polytechnique. He uses the device on biological tissues to observe them in depth with micrometric precision. His work, presented at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris Science Day in September 2024, lies at the frontier between fundamental and applied research, with potential applications in the biomedical field. The aim is to establish relevant biological measurements from the images obtained.

It's not just biological samples that the multi-photon microscopy platform of the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory* (LOB) is studying. Gaël Latour, a teacher-researcher at the University of Paris-Saclay, who carries out his research at the LOB at the École Polytechnique, applies this analysis technique to ancient objects, in particular parchments, as he presented at the IP Paris science day dedicated to light in September 2024. The aim is to provide detailed, objective information on their state of preservation, without altering them.

Yves Le Yaouanq is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*). He has just received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator) to carry out the PROSPECT project. Drawing on the field of behavioral economics, Yves Le Yaouanq's work studies decision-making by individuals, using realistic models that take into account the cognitive biases that tend to affect individual choices. In particular, PROSPECT explores the way in which individuals project themselves into information they do not yet know, using experiments carried out with cohorts.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) has strengthened its position among the world's leading science and technology institutions in the latest 2024 Shanghai Rankings by Subject. These results reinforce IP Paris's role as a hub for cutting-edge research, collaboration, and thought leadership, setting a solid foundation for continued growth in global academic influence.

The second edition of Operation CIEDS brought together over 320 participants from industry, research, defense operators and innovation intermediaries. A day rich in exchanges to meet the challenges of defense innovation and discover how Institut Polytechnique de Paris is involved in major defense and security issues.

Every year, humanity uses 18 TW of power for its activities, equivalent to the amount of energy contained in 15 billion tonnes of crude oil. The Sun provides 10,000 times more. In the current context of energy transition, the benefits of solar energy are clear to see. At the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, scientists with complementary specialties are taking the conversion of this energy into electricity head-on, as they demonstrated on September 19, 2024, during the IP Paris Research Day dedicated to light. In their sights: greater efficiency and optimal use of photovoltaic cells.