Meet Sonia Vanier and Luiz Chamon, Specialization Directors
Sonia Vanier is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Ecole Polytechnique (DIX), 3A Director, Director of the AI Trust Chair, X Crédit Agricole Director, Director of the AI and Optimization for Mobility X-SNCF Chair and Scientific Director for industrial relations in the Computer Science Department and Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique (DIX and LIX).
Her research focuses on the development of decision support tools for complex industrial problems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Operations Research (OR), Network Optimization, hybrid approaches between AI and OR for future ethical, sustainable and trusted AI systems.
She is in charge of the GdT OR (Optimisation des Réseaux) working group and the REST (Réseaux Energie Services et Transports ) research axis of the GDROD of the CNRS and a member of the GDROD scientific council of the CNRS.
Luiz Chamon is an assistant professor (tenure-track) of the Department of Applied Mathematics of École polytechnique. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, in 2020. Before joining Polytechnique, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute of the University of California, Berkeley, and an independent research group leader at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is one of the directors and pedagogical leads of the MScT in Trustworthy and Responsible AI (TRAI) and Large Language Models, Graphs, and Applications (LLGA).
Luiz Chamon is a Hi!PARIS chair holder, an ELLIS Scholar, and the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2021 Young Investigators award from the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Caltech, and the 2025 S. S. Chern Young Faculty award of Ecole Polytechnique.
His research interests include optimization, signal processing, machine learning, statistics, and control.