AI and Engineering@Lille – AI_Engineering_PhD@Lille

Artificial Intelligence spreads and disseminates very quickly in all fields, providing big changes and numerous new opportunities. In particular, AI impacts all research and application areas of engineering, and this effect will continue to increase in the near future.
For this reason, AI is a key element in the research strategy of all the actors in Lille area which cover several important fields such as smart transport, internet of energy and smart grids, smart construction and smart city, industry 4.0, smart agriculture, smart environments, medical engineering, etc. All these fields, which emerges from traditional engineering fields where dissemination, adaptations and development of AI concepts and approaches are needed.

In this context, the strategy of the actors gathered in this program is to capitalize on their deep knowledge, experience and human ressources in the engineering traditional fields of their joint laboratories, for the dissemination, adaptation, and new development of AI concepts and approaches in these engineering fields.

A key point of this proposed program is the availability among the partners of high level engineering students, able to tackle with the multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of the problems, who also have a high specialization in some specific engineering fields through additional research master programs.

Another important point to emphasize is that a large part of the research activity of the partners of this program is in close partnership with industry research centers providing access to real-world situations and leveraging the opportunities of transfer to industry of the research outcomes.