The DESCARTES project is a project set up and led by Francisco Chinesta, a researcher at the PIMM laboratory (Paris campus), at the request of the CNRS and its subsidiary CREATE based in Singapore.
Launched on January 26, 2022, for a period of five years, the project focuses on the development of intelligent modeling for decision support in critical urban systems.
It brings together the CNRS, 12 French universities and engineering schools (including Arts et Métiers), 5 universities or research agencies in Singapore, and 6 industrial partners
(ARIA Tec Nologies Thales, EDF, Atos, MATCOR CETIM company).
The inauguration took place on January 26, 2022, in person in Singapore and remotely with:
- Professor Tan Eng Chye, President of the National University of Singapore
- Professor Subra Suresh, President of Nanyang Technological University
- Dr. Jean Yves Marzin, Director of the Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences at CNRS
- Professor Francisco Chinesta, Director of the DesCartes Program, PIMM Laboratory (UMR 8006Arts et Métiers Cnam) at Arts et Métiers campus
- Professor Dominique Baillargeat, Scientific Executive Director of CNRS@CREATE
- Professor Andy Hor, Deputy Chief Executive (of The Agency for Science, Technology and Research)
- Professor Antoine Petit, Chief Executive Officer of the French National Center for Scientific Research
- Mr. Marc Abensour, Ambassador of France to Singapore
For more information:
Launch of a flagship CNRS project on hybrid AI in Singapore | CNRS
