etis laboratory

What etis laboratory does

ETIS (UMR CNRS 8051) is a joint academic research department between CYU Cergy Paris Université, ENSEA Graduate School of Electrical Engineering, and CNRS Sciences Informatiques, founded circa 1982 and headquartered in Cergy, France. The laboratory operates five research teams — CELL (Complex Events, Learning, and Localization), Data&AI, ICI (Information, Communications and Imaging), NEUROCYBERNETICS (NEURO), and Design-STS — plus a Launcher team, conducting interdisciplinary research across image and signal processing, artificial intelligence, neuro-robotics, wireless communications, acoustic perception, and cognitive sciences. Core research outputs take the form of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations (MICCAI, IEEE, ACM FAccT), PhD theses, patents, and co-organized benchmark challenges such as the GIANA challenge on gastrointestinal image analysis.

ETIS does not sell commercial products or services. Its revenue model is entirely public funding-based: core institutional support from CNRS, CYU, and ENSEA is supplemented by competitive French national grants (ANR, PEPR 5G), European funding (Horizon Europe projects ROBUST-6G, 6G-PHYSEC, HEXA-X-II, COST Action 6G-PHYSEC), and industrial contract research through CIFRE PhD co-funding arrangements with partners including STMicroelectronics, Ericsson, and Nokia Bell Labs. The lab's primary outputs serve academic research communities, industry partners seeking specialized expertise, and the general public through science outreach (Fête de la Science, CNRS visites insolites). Technology transfer to industry is executed through CIFRE PhD theses, contract research, and one documented spin-off, Cobot-One (collaborative robotics, 2024), developed jointly with Robocolle.

Name

etis laboratory

Legal name

ETIS

Website

https://etis-lab.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ETIS Laboratory (UMR CNRS 8051) is a French public research joint unit between CYU, ENSEA, and CNRS conducting interdisciplinary research in AI, wireless communications, neuro-robotics, and signal processing, serving academic and industry partners through grant-funded research and PhD programs.

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Product category

Academic Research Laboratory

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731), Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Research Collaboration & Joint Labs (International Partnerships) (EDAIABAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Instrumentation, Controls & Automation Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAM)

Keywords

• Academic research laboratory
• Interdisciplinary research
• Artificial intelligence research
• Wireless communications research
• Neuro-robotics research

Headquarters

HQ city

Cergy

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Research Funding: ETIS is a public research laboratory funded through CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), CY Cergy Paris Université, and ENSEA Graduate School of Electrical Engineering. Core operational funding is provided by these institutional partners.
2. European Research Grants: ETIS researchers secure competitive European funding including Horizon Europe projects (ROBUST-6G, 6G-PHYSEC, TRACE-V2X, HEXA-X-II), ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) grants, PEPR 5G projects, and IMT/CNRS national programs.
3. Industrial Collaboration and Contract Research: ETIS conducts contract research with industry partners including STMicroelectronics (PhD CIFRE partnerships), Nokia Bell Labs, Ericsson, and other technology companies through collaborative research projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

ETIS Laboratory is a joint research unit (UMR8051) that conducts interdisciplinary fundamental and applied research across image/signal processing, artificial intelligence, neuro-robotics, wireless communications, cognitive sciences, and acoustic perception. Its outputs are publications, patents, PhD theses, deep learning architectures, and technology transfer through industry-funded CIFRE PhD programs and contract research with companies such as STMicroelectronics, Ericsson, and Nokia Bell Labs. The lab also co-organizes the annual GIANA challenge at MICCAI and operates the Cobot-One collaborative robotics spin-off.

Product overview

ETIS Laboratory is a joint research department (UMR8051) comprising CYU Cergy Paris University, ENSEA, and CNRS. Rather than commercial products, ETIS's portfolio consists of research frameworks, spin-off companies, and specialized AI/robotics architectures. Key offerings include the Cobot-One collaborative robotics spin-off, the Computer-Aided Analysis of Gastrointestinal Videos book framework, and specialized deep learning architectures like Micro-Unet (for microscopy segmentation) and UnWave-Net (for tomography reconstruction). Research teams focus on areas including neuro-robotics, wireless communications, computer vision for healthcare, and sound environment modeling.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cobot-One
• Computer-Aided Analysis of Gastrointestinal Videos (Book Framework)
• Micro-Unet
• UnWave-Net

Quantifiable outcome

• ETIS ICI team is involved in 3 new Horizon Europe funded research projects (2023).
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

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Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability12 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered minor, major, moderate and core.

• Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR, Japan)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025A delegation from ATR International (Japan) visited ETIS in April 2025, organized by the CEEVO (Val-d'Oise Development Agency), indicating emerging collaborative interest between the Japanese research institute and ETIS.
• Caisse Nationale de Solidarité pour l'Autonomie (CNSA)minorOthers · 1 January 2025ETIS hosted a delegation from CNSA in September 2025, indicating outreach to national public health/autonomy organizations, likely related to ETIS CELL team's research on fall detection for elderly care.
• EricssonmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Ericsson serves as the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe SNS Stream B Project ROBUST-6G (2023-2026, €395k). ETIS ICI team, led by Prof. Arsenia Chorti, serves as Principal Investigator on physical layer security research for 6G within this project.
• Barkhausen Institut (Germany)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Barkhausen Institut is the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe COST Action Project 6G-PHYSEC (2023-2027, total budget ~€650k). ETIS holds the grant holder role and Prof. Arsenia Chorti is the Principal Investigator for CNRS. The partnership also involves joint supervision of postdocs (Dr. Thuy Pham, Amitha Mayya) and collaborative physical layer security research.
• IPAL (International Research Lab on AI, Singapore)majorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2022IPAL (CNRS International Joint Research Laboratory on AI) is based in Singapore, with CYU as a member institution. Mathias Quoy spent 6 months at IPAL (Feb–Jul 2022) researching multimodal sequence learning. ETIS co-supervises PhD students with A*STAR and NUS through IPAL, including joint supervision on 'Trust and Trustworthiness of 6G' (2024-2027).
• Nokia Bell LabsmoderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Nokia Bell Labs (Saclay) collaborated on the DIM RFSI project SAFEST (Physical layer security for future generations of wireless networks, 2019-2022, €27k), an industrial collaboration project involving Prof. Arsenia Chorti.
• PUC-Rio (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)moderateStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Collaborates with ETIS through the ANR PRCI project ELIOT (Enabling technologies for IoT) and through PhD co-supervision on 'Resilient and Trustworthy Positioning and Physical Layer Security for 6G Systems' (RETRO project). Prof. R. Delamare from PUC-Rio co-supervises PhD student Angelo Passah.
• CNRS Sciences InformatiquescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerETIS is a joint research unit (UMR8051) co-founded and co-funded by CNRS Sciences Informatiques, CYU, and ENSEA. CNRS provides institutional accreditation, core funding, and administrative support. This is the foundational institutional partnership underlying ETIS's existence as a recognized French research laboratory.
• CY Cergy Paris UniversitécoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCYU Cergy Paris University is one of the three founding institutional partners of ETIS UMR8051. CYU provides academic supervision for PhD students, research facilities at the Saint-Martin campus, and co-funding for the laboratory's operations. The partnership enables interdisciplinary research across CYU's departments.
• ENSEA Graduate School of Electrical EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerENSEA is one of the three founding institutional partners of ETIS. The school provides engineering student supervision, research facilities at its Avenue du Ponceau campus, and serves as the primary physical location for ETIS's official address. ENSEA facilitates industry-facing research through its engineering programs.
• A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerA*STAR is a key international research partner of ETIS through IPAL. Joint PhD supervision projects are conducted with A*STAR-I2R, including research on trust and trustworthiness in 6G networks. Prof. Nancy Chen from A*STAR co-supervises PhD students with ETIS researchers.
• Princeton UniversitymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Arsenia Chorti is a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University. An IEA CNRS travel grant supported research exchanges with Princeton (project PEGASUS on context aware physical layer security for 6G, with Prof. M. Chafii and Prof. H.V. Poor).
• University of EssexmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerProf. Arsenia Chorti maintains a visiting scholar affiliation with the University of Essex. The university collaborated on PHC PROCOPE project (Physical Layer Security for IoT and B5G Systems) and physical layer security research with Dr. M. Reed.
• University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerKe Feng, CNRS Researcher at ETIS, received her PhD in electrical engineering in 2022 from the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Martin Haenggi, indicating an academic pathway and ongoing research connection.
• University of Sao PaulomoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with ETIS through the ANR PRCI project ELIOT (Enabling technologies for IoT) and through the PhD project 'Cooperative Intrusion Detection System for Software Defined Wireless Sensor Networks' co-advised with Prof. Cintia Borges Margi.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Broad incumbents

• INRIA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology): France's flagship public IT/AI research institute with multiple research centers. Comparable as a French public research organization producing publications, PhDs, and spin-offs in AI, robotics, and signal processing - ETIS's core domains. INRIA is broader in scope; ETIS is a more focused UMR.
• USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI): A leading US-based university-affiliated research institute covering AI, networks, signal processing, and robotics. Comparable as a multi-team, public-grant-funded research organization producing publications, PhDs, and contract research for government/industry.
• Max Planck Institute for Informatics: Germany's premier computer science research institute covering algorithms, AI, computer vision, and systems. Comparable in academic standing, PhD pipeline, and publication output to ETIS - though broader and better-funded.
• Fraunhofer Institute: Germany's largest applied research organization with institutes in AI, communications, and signal processing (e.g., IAIS, IIS, HHI). Comparable as a publicly-funded applied research organization producing patents, PhDs, and contract research for industry - though much larger in scale than ETIS.
• CEA LIST (CEA Tech Digital Systems and Applications): The applied digital systems research arm of France's CEA, conducting embedded systems, AI, and signal processing research. Comparable as a large French public research entity with industry partnerships and PhD programs, though broader in mission and budget than ETIS.

Direct peers

• IMDEA Networks Institute: A Spanish research institute on wireless networks, 5G/6G, and network security. Comparable as a public research entity focused on wireless communications, with EU-funded project participation and PhD programs mirroring ETIS's ICI team focus.
• IRISA (UMR 6074): A French UMR (joint research unit) in computer science, signal processing, and robotics. Highly comparable to ETIS in structure (UMR, multi-team), funding model (CNRS + universities), and research domains (AI, networks, robotics, image/signal).
• CTTC (Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya): A Spanish non-profit research center on telecommunications, signal processing, and wireless networks. Comparable as a public/private research entity with EU-funded project participation (Horizon programs), industry collaborations, and PhD training similar to ETIS.
• LTCI / Télécom Paris: The information and communication technologies laboratory at Télécom Paris. Comparable as a French academic lab conducting research in signal processing, communications (5G/6G), and AI with industry partnerships - similar to ETIS's ICI team.
• L2S (Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes): A French UMR (joint CNRS/CentraleSupélec/Paris-Saclay research unit) in signal processing, communications, and control. Comparable in structural format (UMR), research focus on signal and information processing, and public-grant funding model.

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Weaknesses5 records

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Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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