.
In 2013, Inria launched the “International Chairs” program in order to offer to international prestigious researchers the possibility of long visits (twelve months along five years) in Inria Project Teams. You may visit the Inria International Chairs webpage to know more, including application conditions.
Inria International Chairs holders from California
For the 2021-2025 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder | Institution | Host (Inria Project Team) | Topic | |
| Laurent El Ghaoui
|
Professor, Department of EECS and IEOR, U.C. Berkeley, United States (website) | SIERRA | Implicit Deep Learning | |
| Katia Obraczka | Professor, UC Santa Cruz, United States (website) | DIANA | Smart Networks: When Computational Intelligence and Networking Meet |
For the 2020-2024 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder | Institution | Host (Inria Project Team) | Topic | |
| Thomas Vidick
|
Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
(website) |
COSMIQ | Quantum cryptography, error-correcting codes and complexity | |
| Scott Baden | Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, United States
(website) |
STORM | Code transformations for improving performance and productivity of PGAS applications |
For the 2017-2021 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder | Institution |
Host (Inria Project Team) |
Topic | |
 |
Rajesh Gupta
|
Professor and Qualcomm Endowed Chair Dpt of Computer Science and Engineering – University of California, San Diego, USA (website) |
TEA |
End-to-end System Co-design |
For the 2015-2019 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder | Institution |
Host (Inria Project Team) |
Topic | |
 |
Deborah Agarwal | Senior Fellow – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA (website) | MYRIADS |
Workflow, user‐centered design and data management and mobile applications for data science |
For the 2014-2018 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder |
Institution | Host (Inria Project Team) | Topic | |
 |
Mathieu Desbrun | Professor ‐ CalTech, USA (website) | TITANE | Efficient conversion between real, digital, and abstract representations of shapes |
For the 2013-2017 Period
| Inria International Chair Holder | Institution | Host (Inria Project Team) | Topic | |
 |
John Canny | Professor – University of California, Berkeley (website) | WILLOW | Active Robotic Agents for Preschool Learning |
 |
Victor Vianu | Professor – University of California, San Diego (website) | DAHU | Data‐Driven Collaborative Workflows |
