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For the third consecutive year, École Polytechnique hosted Opération CIEDS, an annual event dedicated to research and innovation in defense and security. The event, organized by the Center for Defense and Security Studies (CIEDS), in which many of the École Polytechnique's research laboratories are…

Screenshot of the inaugural conference of the 2021 Sustainable Development SeminarOn April 7th and 8th, École Polytechnique organized its third seminar on sustainable development, which is part of the five strong commitments made by the School in June 2019 on this major issue.It took place over two…

The thirteen X start-ups are among the 28 high-impact start-ups from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris' innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem presented on the IP Paris stand at Vivatech 2024.

On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the IEEE Computer Society has named its first distinguished contributors, including Thomas Clausen. The 410,000-member learned society federates academic and industrial efforts to advance electronics, computer science, engineering and bioengineering. Thom…

Clémence Moullet, Ioana Popescu, and Anca Sfia, three students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science program at École Polytechnique, were honored with the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani Junior Prize from the Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation. This prize recognizes outstanding initial research work in m…

Nine Collective Scientisfic Projects (CSPs) were selected by the education and research departments from the 112 CSPs of the X2022 class. A jury made up of personalities from the worlds of academia, business and the press singled out three of them at the final held on September 16.

The Master Visual and Creative AI and the Master Energy Environment: Science, Technology and Management took 1st and 2nd place in their categories, as in 2024. The Master Internet of Things: Innovation and Management, meanwhile, moved up two places to 4th in its category.

Every year, the European Research Council supports ground-breaking research and scientific excellence. In 2024, Charles Baroud, from École Polytechnique’s Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), Olivier Gossner, from the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and Joris van der Hoeven fr…

The Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Visual Computing is first in its category, as in 2023. The MSc&T Energy Environnement: Science, Technology and Management is second in its category, moving up one place. Finally, the MSc&T Internet of Things: Innovation and Management, ranke…

The final of the world's most prestigious programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), took place from November 6 to 11 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. École’s Polytechnique’s finalists had been preparing for this event for months.

The 2023 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, the world's largest tech exhibition, took place from January 5 to 8 with a smaller delegation of French start-ups, including three young companies supported by the Drahi-X Novation Center, the incubator of the École Polytechnique, as we…

Petit Côté : Low fat indulgence  Petit Côté, the leading brand of sweet cakes made with vegetables, is an alternative to the current offer of take-out snacks that are often highly caloric or frustrating if they are more dietetic. To let you hit your sweet spot, the start-up cre…

Focusing on a new Covid-19 detection method, endothelial diseases and chromosomal abnormalities in oocytes, the winning projects from the 2020 call for projects of the "Biomedical Innovation Program" have just been announced. This program, which has been supported by the Bettencourt Schue…

13 Collaborative Scientific Projects selected by the education and research departments from among the 111 CSPs of the X2020 were submitted on September 12 to a jury of academics and business representatives. Three projects were awarded during this final examination.

ThrustMe has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency to demonstrate the world’s first iodine electric propulsion system in space. Founded in 2017 by Ane Aanesland, Director of Research  at CNRS, and Dmytro Rafalskyi, researcher at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LLP X-CN…