Introduction

CEA-LIST’S world-class research leverages all available collaborative programs in close interaction with academic, institutional, and industrial stakeholders at the national and European levels. Our collaborative research strategy is backed by our investment in and deployment of experimental and R&D platforms equipped with the most advanced technologies. Our goal is to help speed up innovation in service to industry. The throughline of all CEA-List’s strategic focus areas is to speed up the development of digital technology while maintaining our systems and data engineering expertise at the highest levels, from requirements-based engineering to the development and qualification of complete systems. Central to our approach is the development of software and mathematics-based tools for modeling, simulation, and the construction of Digital Twins. We integrate eco-design principles into all these developments.

Artificial intelligence—which plays a pivotal role in the development of new use cases for computer vision and language and signal processing—is another pillar of our research at CEA-List. Here, we are developing higher-performance, safer, and more frugal and robust approaches for AI designed with integrability into industrial systems in mind. Of course, to deploy digital technology at a large scale and do so sustainably will require appropriate computing solutions, from architectures and components for AI to the Edge-to-cloud continuum to quantum.

Another important area of our research is capturing and processing physical signals and data—the fuel on which digital technology runs. Here, we draw on our long-standing experience in nuclear energy, quality control, and computer perception. We are targeting complete instrumentation and perception chains, from sensors to industrial equipment and systems and from autonomous robots to the factories of the future.

Cybersecurity is, now more than ever, crucial to the development of secure, sovereign technologies. Here, we are focusing on the development of cybersecurity detection, analysis, and qualification tools, technologies, and solutions, as well as on security solutions at the computing architecture and technology levels. Cybersecurity is an integral part of all research at CEA-List.

Our research strategy and organization are the foundation that supports our people in their quest for excellence in research and innovation—excellence they demonstrate every day through their scientific publications and transfers of new technologies to our industrial partners.