LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique

What LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique does

LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Num\u00e9rique is a French public research laboratory (Unit\u00e9 Mixte de Recherche UMR 9015) jointly supervised by CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, INRIA, and CentraleSup\u00e9lec. Created on January 1, 2021 through the merger of LIMSI (founded 1972) and LRI, LISN operates from two sites on the Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay campus in Orsay and Gif-sur-Yvette, with approximately 350 personnel including researchers, teacher-researchers, engineers, technicians, and doctoral students.

The laboratory is organized around five departments and 17 research teams: Algorithmes, Apprentissage et Calcul (Algorithms, Learning and Computation); Science des Donn\u00e9es (Data Science); Interaction avec l'Humain (Human-Computer Interaction); M\u00e9canique des fluides \u2013 \u00c9nerg\u00e9tique (Fluid Mechanics and Energetics); and Sciences et Technologies des Langues (Language Science and Technology). Research spans artificial intelligence, deep learning for physics, data science, human-computer interaction (including VR/AR), natural language processing, speech processing, bioinformatics, and fluid mechanics, with four transversal axes covering deep learning for physics, arts and sciences, responsible research, and humanities-digital sciences integration.

LISN operates on a government research funding model with no commercial products or services. Revenue derives from appropriations by the four supervising institutions and competitive grants from ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) and other French and European funding bodies. The laboratory's customers, in the academic sense, are the broader research community and doctoral students engaged in collaborative research projects, joint publications, and supervised thesis work. Outputs are disseminated via open-access publications in HAL, international conference presentations (NeurIPS, CHI, IEEE, SIGGRAPH), and industry partnerships including IFPEN and IRT SystemX.

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LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique

Legal name

Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique

Website

https://lisn.upsaclay.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

LISN is a French public research laboratory (UMR 9015) jointly supervised by CNRS, Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, INRIA, and CentraleSup\u00e9lec, conducting interdisciplinary digital sciences research across five departments covering AI, data science, human-computer interaction, NLP, and fluid mechanics, serving the academic and doctoral research community.

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Gif-sur-Yvette

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France

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Europe

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B2B

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Revenue model

1. Public Research Funding: Government funding from French research institutions including CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, INRIA, and CentraleSupélec as primary institutional funders. Additional funding through ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) research grants and project-based funding.

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Core offering

LISN is a public research laboratory (Unité Mixte de Recherche UMR 9015) conducting fundamental and applied interdisciplinary research in digital sciences across 5 departments and 17 research teams, covering artificial intelligence, data science, human-machine interaction, automatic language and speech processing, fluid mechanics and energetics, and bioinformatics. The laboratory produces scientific publications, patents, software tools, and doctoral training programs. It does not offer commercial products or services.

Product overview

LISN is a joint research laboratory (UMR 9015) affiliated with CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, INRIA, and CentraleSupélec. The laboratory conducts fundamental and applied research across 5 departments and 17 research teams covering digital sciences: artificial intelligence and data science (Algorithms, Learning and Computation; Data Science), human-machine interaction (Interaction avec l'Humain), automatic language and speech processing (Sciences et Technologies des Langues), mechanics and energetics, and bioinformatics. The laboratory does not offer commercial products or services but produces scientific research outputs, software tools, and educational programs through its research departments.

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• Algorithms, Learning and Computation Research Department Research on computational models and their robustness, processing architectures, and optimization methods. Targeted at the academic and industrial research community needing advances in algorithms, neural networks, and distributed computing.
• Data Science Research Department Research on modeling, collection, management, and analysis of large-scale data covering the 4 V's of Big Data (Volume, Variety, Velocity, Veracity). Includes teams on data science, recommender systems, semantic web, knowledge graphs, and bioinformatics. Targeted at the academic research community.
• Human-Centered Interaction Research Department Multidisciplinary research on interaction between humans and machines including visual, tangible, haptic, auditory, gestural, and multimodal interaction, virtual and augmented reality. Targeted at the academic research community.
• Language Science and Technology Research Department Research on natural language processing including speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, conversational agents, with applications in endangered language preservation and accessibility. Targeted at the academic research community.
• Fluid Mechanics and Energetics Research Department Research on fluid mechanics, mass and heat transfer, and energy with applications in energy, transport, health, and environment sectors. Targeted at the academic and industrial research community.
• Doctoral Training Program Graduate and postgraduate education and research training program hosting 145 doctoral students, plus research methodology and professional development for researchers, in collaboration with Université Paris-Saclay and CentraleSupélec.

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• Institut CognitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership in cognitive sciences, collaborating on interdisciplinary projects related to human-computer interaction and cognitive systems research
• Institut DataIAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership focused on artificial intelligence research, data science, and interdisciplinary AI applications within the Paris-Saclay ecosystem
• IFPEN (IFP Energies nouvelles)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on machine learning for physics and fluid mechanics research, including joint projects applying ML methods to energy-related engineering challenges
• IRT SystemXmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative research through co-supervised PhD thesis in digital sciences, part of the transverse axis on deep learning for physics
• La Diagonale Paris-SaclaymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoordination on arts and sciences initiatives, aiming to establish a major center for dialogue between arts, science, and society on the Paris-Saclay campus
• LadHyX (Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique de l'Ecole Polytechnique)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-leader since 2017 with ENSAD of the Carasso Foundation art-science chair, joint initiatives in arts and sciences research
• ENS Paris-SaclaymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration through the Design pathway in arts and sciences transversal actions
• SAS (Science-Art-Société - Université Paris-Saclay)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership in Science-Art-Society initiatives for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration
• NeticLabminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on digital arts and sciences projects at Université Paris-Saclay
• Labos 1point5majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerActive member of the Labos 1point5 academic collective, supported and co-financed by CNRS, INRAE, ADEME, and INRIA since 2019, focusing on sustainable development in research

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