**Nicolas Papernot** will give a seminar for M1 and M2 students in the Master's programme in Data Science. It will take place at the Amphi Goubet lecture theatre at Centrale on 6 November 2025 at 1.30pm. The talk presents open problems in the study of machine unlearning. The need for machine …

Laurence Duchien, member of the CRIStAL laboratory at the INRIA Lille Nord Europe centre and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, winner of the *2024 Science Prize* awarded by the *Society of Science, Agriculture and Arts of Lille*

On 9 October 2025, Les Marcs d'Or secondary school (Dijon) hosted a series of unique practical workshops as part of the European BeProAct project, in partnership with the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region and the Univesity of Lille [Learn …

Two students from Polytech'Lille, supervised by *Othman Lakhal, Rochdi Merzouki* and coached by *Santheep Yesudasu, Timothé Wurmlinger* from the SoftE team, won the bronze medal at the national vocational skills competition for the southern region, which took place on Sunday in Marseille

Lingxiao Xun, DEFROST team, received the 1st prize for his thesis from the GdR Robotics 2024 on Wednesday 1 October in Rennes. Lingxiao Xun's research focuses on the modelling and control of soft robots, with a particular emphasis on their medical applications. His thesis, devoted to the …

One 3 October, the laboratory celebrated its 10th anniversary CNRS Hauts-de-France article on LinkedIn [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_rS1aUo7dU]

**Towards a more realistic analysis of algorithms** Contemporary programming languages offer implementations of classical algorithms and classical data structures such as lists, hash tables, sorting, etc. Efficient algorithms for dealing with such issues have been known for several, decades, …

Defence of Pierre Laperdrix's HDR thesis, Monday 13 October 2025 at 1.30 p.m., Lecture Theatre B, Inria Centre, University of Lille. Title of the thesis: *Untangling the Web Tracking Ecosystem to Design Effective Defences* Composition of the jury: -**Supervisor:** Romain Rouvoy, Professor, …

You probably use artificial intelligence tools such as Chat GPT. But did you know that each question asked of these tools can consume as much energy as a light bulb left on for several tens of minutes? And that more than a billion questions are asked of them every day? Come and discover why …