On École Polytechnique’s campus, scientists at the Energy4Climate (E4C) Center at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris are analyzing the electricity consumption of data centers, the number of which is on the rise. This research project, which aims to reconcile digital technology with the ecological transition, is supported by the École Polytechnique Foundation, primarily through sponsorship from Revaia.
The Research Network on Innovation awarded two thesis prizes to Juliette Keohane. Darina Bulatova, a doctoral student, received an award for a paper presented at the Innovation and Product Development Management Conference.
The Ecole Polytechnique is proud to have three female researchers among the 35 winners of the 2026 edition: Kate Sorg, PhD student at the Laboratory...
For the European Researchers’ Night on Friday, September 25, high school students from the “Cordées de la réussite” program in Saint-Denis and Argenteuil were invited to tour the laboratories at École Polytechnique. The program included an escape game dedicated to the Higgs boson at the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory, a sneak peek at the XSeaO2 floating platform, and discussions with researchers from the Molecular Chemistry Laboratory, providing a unique immersion in cutting-edge research.
Francis Bach (X1994), a research director at Inria, and Romain Lopez (X2013), a professor at New York University, are among the researchers in the Class of 2026 of the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 program. The first has been named a Senior Fellow, while the second is joining the program as an Early Career Fellow. Both will focus their work on research issues related to the development of safe and beneficial artificial intelligence.
The MSc&T program Data Science and AI for Business X-HEC ranks second globally in the 2027 edition of the QS Masters in Business Analytics rankings. The program retains its top global ranking for employability and has improved its rankings in the categories of Thought Leadership and Value for Money.
Twelve Collaborative Scientific Projects (PSC) were selected by the teaching and research departments from among the 113 PSCs in the X2024 cohort. A jury composed of prominent figures from academia, the business world, and the media selected three of them during the final round, which took place on September 14.
The French startup Mistral AI has announced a new €3 billion funding round led by Samsung Electronics, bringing its valuation to over €21 billion. Founded in 2023 by three researchers and entrepreneurs, including Arthur Mensch and Guillaume Lample (X2011), Mistral intends to continue developing cutting-edge, open, and sovereign artificial intelligence for the benefit of European companies and institutions.
The American processor designer, Nvidia, has officially announced the acquisition of Hugging Face—co-founded in 2016 by three French entrepreneurs, including two École Polytechnique alumni, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, both from the Class of 2003—for $12.9 billion. In less than ten years, Hugging Face has established itself as one of the world’s leading platforms for sharing and using open artificial intelligence models.
Co-founded by Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Alain Aspect, professor emeritus at École Polytechnique, and Antoine Browaeys, a professor at École Polytechnique, Pasqal—France’s first quantum computing unicorn—is now listed on the Nasdaq. This listing provides the company with approximately $360 million in cash to accelerate its industrial and technological development.
Chinese mathematician Hong Wang (Class of 2010 and recipient of an honorary doctorate from École Polytechnique) has been awarded the 2026 Fields Medal, the highest international honor in mathematics. Honored for her proof of Kakeya's conjecture in three-dimensional space, she became the third woman in history to receive this prestigious award. This award highlights the excellence of her scientific career and reflects her close ties to École Polytechnique, where mathematics plays a central role in the training of engineers and researchers.
By bringing together specialists in optics and biology within the same laboratory, the LOB stands out among research laboratories. This unique setup...
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