The 2nd Inria-University of Waterloo-Université de Bordeaux Workshop will take place on May 26th and 27th, 2025, in Waterloo, Canada.
The objective of the workshop is to strengthen existing collaborations and help initiate new ones between French teams and University of Waterloo researchers in 5 areas:
- Artificial intelligence
- Digital health
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Human-computer interactions
- (new) Applied mathematics & control
More information on the strategic partnership between Inria and University of Waterloo can be found here.
Exact location:
Davis Centre (DC)- Room 1302, University of Waterloo, 200 University West, Waterloo.
The program is the following:
Monday 26 May 2025
9:00- 9:30 Welcome Coffee and registration
9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks
Technical Session 1 – Digital Health
Keynote: 10:00-10:45 Anita Layton, University of Waterloo, Math as a New Microscope in Medicine
Short talks:
10:45-11:00 Gayo Diallo, Université de Bordeaux, AHeaD team, Knowledge Graph Based approach: application on Drug Repositioning and Pollution-Health link prediction
11:00-11:15 Myra Fernandes, University of Waterloo, Do navigation aids help or hinder memory for routes travelled?
11:15-11:30: Thomas Guyet, Inria, ASTROSIGHT team), Analysis of Longitudinal Claims Data
11:30-11:45 Yue Hu, University of Waterloo, Advancing Human-Robot Interaction for Digital Health and Senior Care
11:45-12:00 Stanley Woo, University of Waterloo, CAN-VIEW, Establishing a National Eye Data Repository for AI-Driven Vision Care Policy
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Technical Session 2 – Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Keynote: 13:00-13:45 Karteek Alahari, Inria, Thoth team, AI Research at Inria and A Focus on Learning Visual Representations
Short talks:
13:45-14:00 Victor Zhang, University of Waterloo, Building and Evaluating Generalist Language Agents
14:00-14:15 Guido Sonnemann, Université de Bordeaux, Advancing Sustainability Assessment by AI-Driven Prediction of Environmental Footprints
14:15-14:30 John Zelek, University of Waterloo, 3D mapping of static and dynamic things in the real world with only a moving camera AI?
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
Technical Session 3 – Security and Privacy
Keynote: 15:00-15:45 Catuscia Palamidessi, Inria, Information Structures for Privacy and Fairness
Short talks:
15:45-16:00 Sujaya Mayya, University of Waterloo, Designing scalable oblivious data systems
16:00-16:15 Adam Molnar, University of Waterloo, Understanding and Regulating the Digital Workplace: A Social, Technical, and Legal Synthesis of Employee Monitoring Applications (EMAs)
16:15-16:30 Cécile Pierrot, Inria, CARAMBA team, Back In Time: when cryptography and artificial intelligence join forces to serve historians
19:00-21:00 Dinner
Tuesday 27 May 2025
9:30-10:00 Welcome Coffee
Technical Session 4 – Human-Computer Interaction
Keynote: 10:00-10:45 Ana Crisan, University of Waterloo, Do Humans Still Matter? Designing Data Systems for Human Agency in the AI Era
Short talks:
10:45-11:00 Arnaud Prouzeau, Inria, ILDA team, Toward Data-rich and Immersive collaboration
11:00-11:15 Matthew Brehmer, University of Waterloo, Overcoming Challenges in Synchronous and Multimodal-Rich Communication
11:15-11:30 James Tung, University of Waterloo, Enhancing Brain-Computer Interfaces Through Personalization and closed-loop Neuromodulation
11:30-11:45 Edith Law, University of Waterloo, Simulating Humans to Facilitate Learning
11:45-13:00 Lunch break
Technical Session 5 – Applied Mathematics/Control
Keynote: 13:00-13:45 Kirsten Morris, University of Waterloo, Optimal actuator and sensor placement
Short talks:
13:45-14:00 Jun Liu, Université of Waterloo, Physics-informed machine learning for dynamics and control
14:00-14:15 Ludovick Gagnon, Inria, Fredholm Backstepping Method
14:15-14:30 Roberto Guglielmi, Université of Waterloo, Robust exponential stability of dynamical systems
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Lab Visit
16:00-Social Event & Dinner
Webpage of the Workshop on University of Waterloo website: https://uwaterloo.ca/computer-science/events/inria-workshop-university-waterloo-universite-bordeaux
N.B. The Quantum Computing session at Waterloo was cancelled due to the simultaneity with another event in France but a workshop will be organized in Paris on June 2-3 with the Institute Quantum Computing of the University of Waterloo and other French partners: https://project.inria.fr/inriacanada/2-3-june-2025-iqc-waterloo-pcqt-quantum-saclay-workshop/.
