chairs Junior Faculty

MIAI provides financial support to Junior Professor (CPJ) chairs selected by the universities in its consortium. Below is alist of MIAI’s CPJ, sorted by topic.
A Junior Professorchair (CPJ) is a national recruitment program in French higher education that allows scientists to advance to a tenured position (university professor or research director) after a 3- to 6-year probationary period.

LIST OF TOPICS

AI HEART

Machine Learning and Reasoning

- Alexandre Vigny - Models and Algorithms for AI (Sept. 2024 – Oct. 2028) – LIMOS Laboratory (UCA)

- Emilie Devijver - Causality (Sept. 2023–Sept. 2027) – LIG Laboratory (UGA)

Explainable and Sustainable AI 

- Alexandre Donze - Verifiability and Explainability of AI (Oct. 2024–Sept. 2028) – Verimag Laboratory (UGA)
 

AI & APPLICATIONS

AI and Society 

- Salomé Cojean - TUPAIA: Technologies Used in Education with Artificial Intelligence (Sept. 2023 – Sept. 2027) – LaRAC Laboratory (UGA)

Health and Wellness

- Antoine Frenoy - Models and Simulation-Based Parameter Inference for Microbial Evolution (Sept. 2023–Sept. 2027) – TIMC Laboratory (UGA)

- Sandrine Muller - Health Data Integration and Utilization of AI for Precision Medicine AI4Health@DAISY - LIG Laboratory (UGA)

Industry of the Future 

- Misaki Ozawa - Estimating the entropy of non-equilibrium physical, chemical, and biological systems from snapshot images using machine learning techniques (Sept. 2023 – Sept. 2027) - LIPhy Laboratory (UGA)

Published on July 22, 2026
Updated on October 29, 2026