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Michèle Wigger, professor at the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI*) at Télécom Paris, and Nicole El Karoui, a mathematician who has conducted much of her work as part of a chair held by the Center for Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique (CMAP**), were honored by the French Academy of Sciences on October 30, 2025.

On October 21, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris hosted the first edition of its Cybersecurity and Defense Conference. Two hundred scientists, institutional representatives, industry professionals, and students came to listen to and discuss this sensitive topic with experts at the forefront of national and European issues. A video look back at this new annual IP Paris event.

Stéphane Mallat, alumnus of École Polytechnique (class of X81) and former chair of the applied mathematics department at École Polytechnique, Laurent Bopp, Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD*), and Stefania Cacovich, Research Fellow at the Institut photovoltaïque d'Ile-de-France (IPVF**), were honored by the CNRS for the year 2025. They received gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively, for the quality of their work.

On November 20, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will return to Station F for the second edition of its Demo Day. Building on the success of the 2024 edition, this event will bring together 40 startups from the Institute’s incubators – X-Up (École Polytechnique), the Télécom Paris Incubator, IMT Starter, and Ponts Alumni –who will present their technological innovations to an audience of investors, partners, and stakeholders from the academic and industrial worlds.

During his doctoral thesis at the SAMOVAR laboratory at Télécom SudParis, Maxime Bedoin combined electroencephalograms (EEG) and AI with the aim of diagnosing neurocognitive disorders and differentiating them from other neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. To do this, he applied an unsupervised learning method to a specific type of data: the connectivity between EEG signals that measure brain activity. This offers a promising decision-making tool for clinicians.

Lorenzo Hermez completed his PhD at the SAMOVAR laboratory at Télécom SudParis. During his three years of doctoral study, he developed engineering and machine learning methods for characterizing the gait of stroke and trauma victims. His research could help clinicians in their decisions during the diagnosis and evaluation phases of therapies to offer their patients.

Anamaria Costache is a cryptography researcher specializing in homomorphic data encryption. This technique allows calculations to be performed on encrypted information while ensuring its security. The scientist's work aims to optimize these encryption schemes and verify the reliability of the calculations performed. They anticipate the potential arrival of quantum computers. Anamaria Costache spoke at the IP Paris Cybersecurity and Defense Conference as a visiting professor at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique (LIX*) on October 21, 2025.

Adrien Leblanc, CNRS research fellow at the Applied Optics Laboratory of ENSTA, École Polytechnique and CRNS (LOA*), and Sebastian Meuren, assistant professor at the Intense Lasers Laboratory (LULI**) at École Polytechnique and CNRS, have been awarded an ERC Synergy Grant for the year 2025. The grant will fund their involvement in the international NP-QED project, which aims to test Quantum ElectroDynamics theory and explore its extreme limits.

The Institut Polytechnique de Paris, including École Polytechnique and ENSTA, and the Office National d’Etudes et de Recherche (ONERA) have signed a strategic partnership to develop aeronautics, space, and defense (ASD). The institutions are pooling their expertise in mechanics, physics, and digital technology to create a French center of excellence in the field of ASD. The agreement provides for the creation of a joint research institute in mechanics and training through research via joint IP Paris-ONERA research teams.

During Operation CIEDS 2025, more than 430 participants from different backgrounds were able to discover the mobilisation of actors in defence and security innovation. This third edition was rich in exchanges and the programme was in line with the priorities of the Ministry of the Armed Forces: artificial intelligence, quantum technology and space!

Stefano Zacchiroli is a full Professor at the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI*) at Télécom Paris, and co-founder of the Software Heritage project. Drawing on this global archive of open source software, he offers tools that can be used to trace the evolution of the code used in most products on the market and detect anomalies between different versions. This work contributes to the security of the open source software supply chain and to European sovereignty in this area. He spoke at the IP Paris Cybersecurity and Defense Conference on October 21, 2025.

In January 2026, the training module ‘World Politics and History, Great Powers and International Relations in the 20th and 21st Centuries’ will be offered again. Organised by Manuel Dorion-Soulié, project manager for ‘Technological Sovereignty, Defence Strategy’ at Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies (CIEDS) and assistant professor of American civilisation at École Polytechnique, this module will be held at École Polytechnique on three Fridays: 9, 16 and 23 January 2026. It is open to all students, doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and staff at IP Paris and its schools, as well as staff from the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior.