Opened in July 2025, the Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science of the Paris Brain Institute federates unique multidisciplinary expertise to advance brain understanding and improve brain health. It is housed in a dedicated facility located a 5-minute walk from the main building. It currently gathers 100 people with the objective to scale up to 150.
What is the Center for AI and Data Science?
The Center aims at being an international hub in AI and data science for neuroscience, resulting in disruptive methodological advances and in major breakthroughs in understanding, preventing and treating brain disorders. Building on the Institute’s unique multidisciplinary environment - bringing together medicine, neurobiology, mathematics, and computer science - the Center leverages exceptionally rich research and clinical data, supported by state-of-the-art core facilities and a unique medical ecosystem.
The Center brings together scientific and technical experts from various specialties, including machine learning, statistics, data analysis, data management, software development, bioinformatics, neuroscience, medicine. Such multidisciplinary expertise is essential to design trustworthy AI systems that meet the needs of scientists, physicians and patients.
Its ambition is to open a novel era in neuroscience and brain health, resulting in more accurate diagnosis, accelerating therapeutic discovery, and advancing precision medicine.
The main objectives are to:
- Federating forces of the Institute across computational sciences
- Explore uncharted territories in AI and data science for neuroscience by attracting the best talents world-wide
- Disseminate and integrate AI and data-science approaches within neuroscientific and clinical research teams
- Structure data to enable their effective use, reuse, sharing, and exploit their full potential for scientific discoveries through building a Research Data Warehouse
Composition
Core staff
Olivier Colliot – Deputy Scientific Director, AI and Data Science, Paris Brain Institute; Research Director, CNRS
Sylvie Bothorel – Chief Data Officer, Paris Brain Institute
Sarra Margi – Project Manager of the Center, Paris Brain Institute
Currently hosted entities
- ARAMIS research team: machine learning, computational statistics, medical imaging, disease progression modeling, real-life data
- CATI: center for multicenter neuroimage acquisition and analysis
- Software development facility
- Data analysis core (DAC) facility: data management, data analysis, bioinformatics, biostatistics
- Residency: hosting scientists from other teams on a project-basis
187 rue du Chevaleret 75013 - 5’’ from the main building
