Research Forum of the RISE Academy of Excellence

The "Networks, Information, and Digital Society" Academy of Excellence, celebrating its 10th anniversary, is pleased to invite you to its 

RESEARCH FORUM

Friday, November 27, 2026
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Inria Center of Université Côte d'Azur
Room Euler Bleu and online

This day is dedicated to the presentation of 10 research projects supported in 2025 and 2026 by the RISE Academy.

It will be an opportunity to discover the diversity of the projects, exchange ideas on their findings, and foster connections across the scientific community. The presentations will be conducted in English and French.
 
This event is open to all the community members of Université Côte d'Azur.
 

PROGRAM

8:45 AM

Welcome coffee

9:00 AM Introduction
Chadi BARAKAT, Director of the "Networks, Information and Digital Society" Academy
9:15 AM     Project HUMNI
Innovative neural HUman-Machine Interface, François HUG, LAMHESS, Université Côte d'Azur
9:45 AM           Project LEARN-AI
Impact of AI on human learning: an experimental approach, Agnès FESTRÉ, Université Côte d'Azur
10:15 AM Project Pref-AIdvisor
Experimental Elicitation of LLM preferences in AI-human advice, Guilhem LECOUTEUX, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, GREDEG

10:45 AM

Coffee break

11:00 AM Project EXPLAINER
Revealing the hidden parts of arguments, Victor DAVID, Inria center, i3S laboratory
11:30 AM Project PredicHate
Pragmatic modelling for preventing antisocial behaviour, Anaïs Ollagnier, Yingxue FU, Université Côte d'Azur, i3S laboratory
12:00 PM Project LaunderCoin
Automatic detection of money laundering on Bitcoin, Arnaud LEGOUT, Inria center

12:30 PM

Lunch buffet

2:00 PM Project DataDisks
Data informed computational fluid dynamics for planet formation, Héloïse MEHEUT, CNRS, OCA, Université Côte d'Azur
2:30 PM Project FAIGATS
Field-Aligned Isogeometric Methods for Tokamak Simulations, Francesca RAPETTI-GABELLINI, LJAD, Inria center, Université Côte d'Azur
3:00 PM Project TransGraphs
Transfer Learning for Graph-linked Data, Konstantin AVRACHENKOV, Inria center
3:30 PM Project GENIAL
From Scientific Machine Learning to Topological Data Analysis: an Innovative Framework to Improve Gene Regulatory Network Dynamic Rewiring for Plant Health, Mathieu CARRIÈRE, Inria Center, and Silvia BOTTINI, INRAE
4:00 PM Conclusion

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CONTACT

Nathalie Currid
+33 4 92 38 79 39
nathalie.currid@univ-cotedazur.fr 
academie-rise@univ-cotedazur.fr

RISE Academy web page

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