🎓 Co-Branded AI Chairs
Where research, governance, and talent converge.
Co-Branded AI Chairs are multi-year strategic programs designed to align academic excellence and industrial innovation. They create durable bridges between universities, research centers, and corporate sponsors, ensuring impact from discovery to deployment.
Bridging Governance, Research, and Talent for Global Impact
🧭 Governance & Structure
Each Chair operates under a joint Steering Committee that defines:
• A multi-year research agenda and milestones
• Activity reporting and alignment with partner goals
• Decision frameworks for open-science vs proprietary outcomes
This governance-by-design approach is inspired by CNRS/INRIA industrial chairs, ETH AI Center partnerships, and Sorbonne AI collaborations — ensuring accountability and transparency over time.
👩🔬 Talent Pipeline & Execution
The Chairs build the next generation of AI leaders through:
• Co-supervised Master’s and PhD programs
• Dual-site execution between Paris ↔ Abu Dhabi, enabling cultural and academic exchange
• Embedded participation of industry mentors and research fellows
This model echoes global programs like TII–MBZUAI (Abu Dhabi) or Oxford-Google DeepMind Chairs, fostering a truly transnational talent ecosystem.
🌱 Outcomes & Impact
• Joint publications and demonstrators aligned with strategic themes
• Shared intellectual property and reproducible research outputs
• Sustainable partnerships nurturing innovation clusters and spin-offs
Over time, these Chairs form a durable AI ecosystem — linking academic rigor, industrial acceleration, and long-term talent development.