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E.g., 15/11/2025
E.g., 15/11/2025
  • Conference by Julien Velcin – Conversational AI: From ELIZA to ChatGPT
    On November 17, 2025, Julien Velcin will give a lecture on Large Language Models (LLMs) and their transformative impact on information processing. He will outline their evolution within AI and NLP, explain how they work, and discuss their current limitations and the solutions being explored to overcome them.
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  • Team lunch
    Souvenir photo from our team meal on Friday 7/11/2025.
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  • Research day on "Foundation Models and Robotics"
    LIRIS will host the "Foundation Models and Robotics" working day of the GDR Robotique, on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 on the campus of Centrale Lyon. The call for contributions is still open.
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  • The CNRS defends gender equality in world science
    On October 27th 2025, the eleven organisations, including the CNRS, that won the European Equality Prize signed a declaration of principle in support of gender equality in research, an initiative launched by France's leading research organisation which now incorporates gender equality into all its international collaboration projects. https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-defends-gender-equality-world-science
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  • Nomination of Sonia Ben Mokhtar as Knight of the French National Order of Merit
    We are delighted to announce the nomination of Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS Research Director hosted at INSA Lyon, as a Knight of the French National Order of Merit. This distinction, awarded in the presence of Antoine Petit, CEO of CNRS, recognizes her outstanding scientific career, her strong commitment to collective endeavors within the LIRIS laboratory and the PEPR Cybersecurity program, as well as her remarkable contribution to the international visibility of French research.
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  • Welcome session for first-year PhD students and "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" edition
    LIRIS welcomed its new PhD students on October 23, 2025, at the Bassi amphitheater on the Doua campus. The day continued with the 2025 edition of the "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" competition, during which second-year PhD students presented their research in just three minutes. Congratulations to Syrine Salouhou, Mouna El Garb, and Elouan Vincent, winners of this edition, and thanks to all participants for their enthusiasm and commitment.
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  • Angela Bonifati wins an ERC Advanced Grant!
    The laboratory is very proud to announce that our colleague Angela Bonifati, Professor at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, has been awarded one of the prestigious 2024–2025 European Research Council (ERC) grants. She has received an ERC Advanced Grant, awarded for five years to support the development of her research project GO-Y, with a budget of €2.5 million. Warm congratulations to Angela for this remarkable and well-deserved achievement!
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  • Awareness on Disability
    We invite you to join us on October 6, from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. room C6, alongside Ms. COUPAT, Program Deployment Manager of Atypie-Friendly, and Ms. BIGNON, Disability Correspondent at Lyon 1. This meeting will aim to: • provide information on the role and missions of the Disability Correspondent, • present Autism Spectrum Disorder and its impact in a work environment, • engage in an open discussion based on your questions.
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  • Seminar by Jean-Claude Martin – Motivate to Interact - Interact to Motivate
    Motivation and social interaction are two core concepts in psychology that are seldom considered together in HCI. I will describe interdisciplinary research that aims to design tailored human-computer interactions that either motivate users to interact with others, or support interactions that aim to motivate users (e.g., motivational technologies for sports and physical activity). I will explain the individual differences we have observed and how these individual differences may help researchers to better understand users and to provide them with tailored, motivational, and social interactions.
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  • Seminar by Abhishek Chandra – Application - and Data - aware Optimizations for Efficient Edge Computing
    Abhishek Chandra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with current focus on performance, energy, and resource management in Cloud and Edge computing, Data analytics, and Mobile/IoT systems.
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