Emmanuel Bacry

Dr. Emmanuel Bacry is a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), specializing in particular in health applications, statistical finance and ecological transition. Since 1993, he has been a researcher at the CNRS and currently holds a senior chair at the PR[AI]RIE institute. He is also Scientific Director of the Health Data Hub, the national health data platform, and plays a central role in structuring and securing health data for the development of research projects. In 2020, he co-piloted the “Data vs Covid” Task Force under the mandate of the Prime Minister to exploit health data in the management of the pandemic in France. His current responsibilities include numerous coordinations of large-scale projects including a national project involving 30+ institutions (10 NLP research teams, 20 health institutions, Mistral and Recital startups) on building and deploying LLM tools in health institutions and the pilot HealthData@EU of the European Health Data Space, a project involving 20 institutions, including 8 national platforms and the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Emmanuel Bacry has more than 100 scientific publications, with an h-index of 48 and more than 13,000 citations. He has hosted and presented his work at more than 80 international academic conferences and around 140 public conferences and round tables on the technological challenges of AI, for a wider audience. His academic career also includes supervising young researchers with more than 15 supervised theses, as well as postdoctoral fellows and data scientists, helping to train the next generation of specialists in AI and health data. From 2014 to 2020, he was an associate professor and head of AI at the École Polytechnique, where he initiated several cutting-edge training programs, advancing knowledge in this rapidly evolving field.