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13 national and international conferences, 12 guests of the month, 3 internal celebrations, 1 institutional day, 5 public engagement events... So many events to mark half a century of innovation, discoveries and major contributions to science and society. Take a minute to relive this anniversary year through these images!

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 [..]

Congratulations to Corentin Jeudy, a PhD student working on an Orange thesis within the CAPSULE research team, who received the runner-up prize in the Gilles Kahn thesis award, presented by the French Computer Society (SIF) and sponsored by the Academy of Sciences. This award highlights young scientists whose thesis work represents a remarkable advance in the field of computer science. His thesis [..]

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 is proud to host the POPL 2026 international conference, dedicated to programming languages and systems, at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes. Led by Sandrine Brazy, Professor at the University of Rennes and member of the Epicure research team, POP is an annual symposium dedicated to the principles of programming languages. The conference which begins on Sunday 11 January and runs until [..]

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.