The Executive Committee (or board) is responsible for overall project management, and for appraising scientific and strategic actions for submission to the strategic and program committees.

Paul Guillaumot

Paul Guillaumot has a background in mechanical engineering, complemented by solid experience in business strategy and operational optimization. In 2016, he founded SpareParts3D to help manufacturers improve the management of their spare parts. He is now dedicated to developing a decentralized production model based on additive manufacturing technologies. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, he inherited a strong interest in innovation, a tolerance for uncertainty, and unwavering commitment.

Nathalie Lassau

Professor Nathalie Lassau, Knight of the Legion of Honor (2025) and of the Academic Palms (2023), is a university professor and hospital practitioner in radiology at Paris-Saclay University and co-director of the Biomaps UMR1281 CEA INSERM CNRS laboratory. A specialist in cancer centers, she led the INCa STIC DCE-US multicenter study, validating a predictive biomarker in contrast-enhanced ultrasound integrated into international guidelines.

Josselin Kherroubi

Josselin Kherroubi is an expert in algorithm development, applied mathematics, and physics. He designs advanced solutions for complex data analysis. His recent work includes image analysis for geology and electromagnetic data processing in petrophysics. Key skills: applied mathematics, algorithms, signal and image processing, Matlab, C++.

Within the executive committee, Josselin is involved in partnership projects with one or more manufacturers.

Fabrice Le Guel

Fabrice Le Guel is an economist, HDR lecturer at Université Paris Saclay, and member of the IREN (Industries de Réseau et Économie Numérique) Master 2 board. His research interests include digital economics, innovation economics, network economics and privacy economics.

Within the executive committee, Fabrice is responsible for projects involving the initiation of collaborations/exploratory projects. He is also consulted on matters relating to the humanities and social sciences (HSS).

Agnès Desolneux

Agnès Desolneux's work focuses on the analysis of stochastic models, mainly random fields, and their applications to various image processing problems. Her research applies in particular to medical imaging, texture analysis and synthesis, image restoration, and visual perception. Within the executive committee, Agnès oversees calls for guest lecturers.

Nina Otter

In October 2023, Nina Otter joined the DataShape team at Inria-Saclay as an Inria Starting Faculty member. She is also a member of the Orsay Mathematics Laboratory (LMO) at Paris-Saclay University. From 2021 to 2023, she was a lecturer (assistant professor) in data science mathematics at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, she held a position as assistant professor in CAM at UCLA and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig.

Demian Wassermann

Demian Wassermann is currently Research Director in the MIND team at INRIA Saclay Île-de-France. His work focuses on the development of AI models of brain anatomy, using diffusion MRI, and their clinical applications. He is also interested in image registration and machine learning. Since September 2024, Demian Wassermann has been named Scientific Director of the DATAIA Institute.

David Rousseau

David Rousseau is a physicist and Director of Research at CNRS/IN2P3 in the IJCLab-Orsay Université Paris Saclay laboratory. He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, mainly studying the physics of the Higgs boson. He has a particular interest in the use of Artificial Intelligence in physics and science more generally, in particular substitution models, dimensionality reduction and classification in the presence of uncertainties.

Sophie Schbath

Sophie Schbath obtained her PhD in Statistics from the University of Paris V in October 1995. She completed her thesis at the Biometrics Laboratory of INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) in Jouy-en-Josas, where she obtained a permanent research position in August 1996. In 1996, she spent a year as a post-doctoral fellow in Los Angeles, working with Simon Tavaré and Michael Waterman.

Fatiha Saïs

Fatiha Saïs is a University Professor at Université Paris Saclay and a member of the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique (LISN), where she leads the LaHDAK (Large-scale heterogeneous data and knowledge) team. Her research focuses on: data linking and fusion in the Web of Data, error detection and fact validation in knowledge graphs, as well as the discovery of graph rules and patterns in graph data for data linking, link prediction, decision making and the explanation of causal relationships.

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