11 International Visiting Chairs Join Hi! PARIS in 2026
Hi! PARIS launched the International Visiting Chairs program 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 2026, we are welcoming eleven international visiting professors. Each will collaborate on a specific project in artificial intelligence or data science, hosted by a Hi! PARIS researcher.
Meet the 2026 Visiting Chairs:
Gustau Camps-Valls (Universitat de València)
Project: AI4ES: Causal & Equation Discovery for Earth Science
Host: Rémi Flamary, École polytechnique (IP Paris)Alexandre Bayen (UC Berkeley)
Project: AI/ML, deep-RL for automotive, NN approximations of PDEs, explainable AI
Host: ENPC (IP Paris)Siyu Tang (ETH Zurich)
Project: Algorithmic Foundations for Generative Human Motion Synthesis
Host: Gül Varol, ENPC (IP Paris)Fredrik Kahl (Chalmers University of Technology)
Project: Robust and Efficient 3D Reconstruction through Active Exploration and Uncertainty-Aware Learned World Models
Host: Vincent Lepetit, ENPC (IP Paris)Camille Meyer (University of Cape Town)
Project: Artificial Intelligence and the Commons: Collective Governance and Stewardship
Hosts: Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris)Shan Luo (King’s College London)
Project: Touchable AI for Social Robotics
Host: Adriana Tapus, ENSTA (IP Paris)David Fridovich-Keil (University of Texas at Austin)
Project: Problems of Ordered Preference: An Optimization Perspective for Machine Learning
Host: Georgios Bakirtzis, Télécom Paris (IP Paris)- Phi Le Nguyen (Hanoi University of Science & Technology)
Project: A Unified Multimodal Foundation Model for Cross-Institutional Biosignal Intelligence
Host: Nguyen Van Tam, Télécom Paris (IP Paris) - Frank Neumann (University of Adelaide)
Project: Turbo-charging Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimisation
Host: Benjamin Doerr, École polytechnique (IP Paris) - Edoardo Celeste (Dublin City University)
Project: Governing Data Centres in the EU: Sustainability, Competitiveness and Strategic Autonomy in the Age of AI
Host: Thomas Le Goff, Télécom Paris (IP Paris) - Antonio Ortega (University of Southern California)
Project: Signal-aware Graph Summarization with GNN Guarantees
Host: Jhony Giraldo, Télécom Paris (IP Paris)
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.