Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial intelligence

Nicolas Vuillerme,
Professor, UGA
Nicolas.vuillerme@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

 

DESCRIPTION

Ambition

To create a durable international strategic partnership between Univ. Grenoble Alpes - UGA (France), Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações – Inatel (Brazil) and VinUniversity (Vietnam) aiming at developing and encouraging international, interdisciplinary and translational Education, Research, and Innovation activities in the field of AI. The so-called SL2i ‘Smart Life Smart Living intercontinental. AI by and for people’ chair is hence intended to become a win-win intercontinental consortium that gathers researchers, university lecturer/researchers, engineers, technicians, PhD and post-docs from UGA, Inatel and VinUniversity working in AI uses and applications.

Implementation

The SL2i’s chair is built on 3 transversal areas of work that are of increased relevance and great importance to our communities, applied to 3 applications domains of AI constituting demonstrators and proofs of concept of the integrated, multidisciplinary and translational approach. A double entry is envisioned. The implementation of these 6 WP is intended to progress in a complementary and synergistic manner.

Transversal work packages

WP1. AI, humans and society
WP2. Data gathering, quality, privacy and security to transform data into databases
WP3. Frugal AI

Vertical work packages

WP4. AI for persons (Use case 1: Smart Healthcare - Use case 2: Smart Sport)
WP5. AI for society (Use case 1: Smart Education - Use case 2: Smart City)
WP6. AI for enterprises (Use case 1: Smart Agriculture - Use case 2: Smart Industry)

Members 

Consortium

We have built a special task force. SL2i is a multi-disciplinary and multi-national team of both Senior Career Researchers (SCRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) from the three academic partners.

About the Grenoble’s academic partners

SL2i@UGA is constituted with 17 permanent members from 7 UGA’s research units (AGEIS, CROMA, Gipsa-lab, G-Scop, LIG, Pacte, TIMC) representing 4 research departments (Chemistry, Biology, Health (CBS) - Mathematics, Information and Communication Sciences (MSTIC) - Physics, Engineering, Material Science (PEM) and Social Sciences (PSS)), from 1 associate institute (CEA-Leti - Electronics and Information Technology Lab.) and from Grenoble Alpes University Hospital.

About the 2 international academic partners from Vietnam and Brazil

VinUniversity (Vietnam) is a private, not-for-profit University and a subsidiary of Vingroup, a corporation in Vietnam that generates more than 2% (~6 biliion USD) of its gross domestic product. SL2i@VinUni is composed of 4 research centers (VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC), the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (BK.AI), VinUniversity Medical Simulation Center (VMSC), and VinUni Center For Biomedical 3D Printing) and their private partners, including a team of 5 permanent staff (3 SCRs and 2 ECRs).

Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações (Inatel) (Brazil) is a private, non-profit college maintained by the subsidiary FINATEL headquartered in Brazil. It is a reference institution that works directly with the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, among others ministries, to formulate projects related to the implementation of digital TV, 5G and Smart Cities in the country. SL2i@Inatel is composed of 4 research centers (eHealth Innovation Center, Cybersecurity & IoT Lab, Hospital Lab, and IoT Research Group Lab) and their partners, including a team of 5 permanent staff (3 SCRs and 2 ECRs).