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As part of the 2026 coordinated recruitment campaign for faculty members, IRISA is the host department for the Associate Professor (MCF) and Full Professor (PR) positions (in collaboration with partner academic programs) listed on this page (in french).

Olivier Barais, Professor at the University of Rennes, succeeds Guillaume Gravier, Director of Research at the CNRS, as Director of IRISA. He is joined by Marie Babel, Professor at INSA Rennes, and François Taini, Professor at the University of Rennes.

From 28 to 30 January, eight secondary school pupils came to discover the world of computer science research. From Wednesday 28 January to Friday 30 January, together with the Inria centre at the University of Rennes, we welcomed eight secondary school pupils for a three-day work experience placement. This year, the theme of the placement was ‘Digital technology and the environment’. On the [..]

From January 2026, a new management team will take the reins at IRISA, one of France's largest and oldest computer science research laboratories. Olivier Barais, Professor at the University of Rennes, succeeds Guillaume Gravier, Director of Research at the CNRS, as Director of IRISA. He is joined by Marie Babel, Professor at INSA Rennes, and François Taini, Professor at the University of Rennes. A [..]

IRISA and all its members wish you all the best for 2026 and would like to take this opportunity at the start of the year to introduce its new management team, which took up its duties on 1 January 2026.

As part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations, don't miss the last guest of the month, on December 18 at 2:30 p.m.: Philippe Ciuciu Philippe Ciuciu is Director of Research and Head of the MIND team (CEA/Inria) at NeuroSpin. His lecture, entitled “Advancing Brain Imaging: Exploring New Frontiers with AI,” will be held in English. Registration is free but mandatory.

As part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations, don't miss September's guest speaker, Yuval Yarom, on 4 November at 2.30pm. His lecture, entitled ‘MicroArchitectural Weird Machines’, will be held in English. Registration is free but compulsory.

IRISA continues to celebrate its 50-year history... September and October were dedicated to scientific outreach activities, open to all, highlighting half a century of knowledge in computer science research. A look back at: The conférence " 50 ans d'intelligence artificielle, et après ?" by Elisa Fromont, at the Espace des Sciences on 16 September The Science Festival in Lannion, for [..]