Early February, during the event WAICF in Cannes (France), Vincent Huard, CTO at Dolphin Design, has signed the first Industrial Chair with 3IA Côte d’Azur, for a 4-year period.
This is a new collaborative tool for research and innovation, placed here in the context of Edge AI for low-energy artificial intelligence. The chair is headed by Benoît Miramond, who is also head of LEAT’s eBRAIN neuromorphic engineering group. It includes the integration by the company of a researcher from Université Côte d’Azur, Dr Andrea Castagnetti.
“The collaboration with Dolphin Design, which involves a 3IA Côte d’Azur Chairholder, has naturally evolved into an Industrial Chair contract. This has enabled us to refine the contours of our collaboration offer so that it meets the needs of companies. To date, we have around ten companies on the Côte d’Azur interested in an Industrial Chair-type collaboration”, explains Charles Bouveyron, Director of the Institut 3IA Côte d’Azur.
For Dr Vincent Huard, CTO at Dolphin Design, this is a win-win partnership. In the field of on-board AI for robotics, the aim is to combine Dolphin’s circuit design skills with the research that the UCA laboratory is involved in.
About 3IA Côte d’Azur
3IA Côte d’Azur is one of the four “Interdisciplinary Institutes of Artificial Intelligence” that were created in France in 2019. The institute is led by Université Côte d’Azur in partnership with major higher education and research partners in the region of Nice and Sophia Antipolis: CNRS, Inria, Inserm, EURECOM, and SKEMA Business School.
The overall objective of 3IA Côte d’Azur is to advance real-world AI, with applications for health and smart territories.
