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Seven International Visiting Chairs Join Hi! PARIS in 2025

Hi! PARIS launched the International Visiting Chairs program in December 2024 to support international scientific collaboration. The program invites researchers from institutions abroad to spend time working with research teams affiliated with Hi! PARIS member schools in France.

For 2025, we are welcoming seven international visiting professors. Each will collaborate on a specific project in artificial intelligence or data science, hosted by a Hi! PARIS researcher.

Meet the 2025 Visiting Chairs:

  • Alessandro Vinciarelli
    Project: Socially Intelligent Multimodal Conversation Analysis
    Host: Mounim El Yacoubi, Télécom SudParis

  • Alexei Efros
    Project: Discovering Typical Visual Structures in Large Image Collections with Diffusion Models
    Host: Mathieu Aubry, ENPC

  • Andréas Nüchter
    Project: Universal Semantic Mapping for Outdoor and Underwater Environments
    Host: François Goulette, ENSTA

  • Dimitris Samaras
    Project: Human Attention-Guided Video Representations
    Host: Vicky Kalogeiton, École polytechnique

  • Eric Xing
    Project: Multiscale Foundation Models for Predicting, Simulating, and Programming Biology at All Levels
    Hosts: Eric Moulines & Alain Durmus, École polytechnique

  • Milan Miric
    Project: Identifying US, Chinese, and European AI Technologies: Extending Patent Databases Using Novel Data and Approaches
    Host: Mickael Impink, HEC Paris

  • Thibaut Vidal
    Project: Trustworthy and Decision-Focused Learning
    Host: Axel Parmentier, ENPC

This initiative reflects our core values of openness, excellence, and cross-border collaboration. By welcoming top researchers into our ecosystem, we aim to accelerate innovation and contribute to advance the global conversation around responsible and impactful AI.

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