ANR IA Chairs: two recipients at ENS de Lyon

The 'AI Chairs' aim to offer researchers substantial resources to build a team and carry out an ambitious project whose visible impact is expected. A multi-year program of 40 Chairs in Artificial Intelligence is one of the measures under this research component, which was presented on November 2018 by the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the Secretary of State for Digital Technology. The national program for AI aims to ensure that the best talents choose to settle permanently in France and can, in turn, train future generations of AI researchers and professionals in jobs that remain largely to be imagined. The call for "Research and Teaching chairs in Artificial Intelligence (AI Chairs)" aims precisely to offer French and foreign researchers, with the support of host institutions, substantial resources to build a team and carry out an ambitious project whose visible impact is expected. These AI research and teaching chairs must be outside the 3IA institutes, and coherently integrated into the hosting laboratories. They must actively participate in the actions of the national AI research network coordinated by Inria. See all 2019 recipients The objective of the AllegroAssai AI chair (Algorithms, Approximations, Sparsity and Sketching for AI) is to develop a theoretical understanding of the fundamental tradeoffs between utility, efficiency and trustworthiness when learning from massive data streams, as well as the algorithms and software needed to substantially improve the resource-efficiency of machine learning.