Nicholas Ayache
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Nicholas Ayache, born on 1 November 1958 in Paris, is a French computer scientist and Research Director at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis-Mediterranean Centre.[1] Previously, he was Scientific Director of the Institut hospitalo-universitaire de Strasbourg (2012–2015) and Visiting Professor at the Collège de France (2014).[2][3] He is also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Nicholas Ayache is a Civil Engineer from the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne (1980), holds a Master of Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, 1981), a PhD and a Thèse d’État (Habilitation) from the University of Paris Sud (1983 and 1988).
He is research director at Inria (Institut national de recherche en informatique et mathématiques appliquées),[4] where he leads the EPIONE[5] research team, dedicated to the digital patient[6] and digital medicine.[7][8] Since 2019, he has also been the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Artificial Intelligence (3IA) of the Côte d'Azur.[9]
He was a visiting professor at the Collège de France, holding the annual chair in Computer Science and Digital Sciences for the 2013–2014 academic year.
He was a visiting researcher at MIT and Harvard in 2007.
He was the scientific director of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) in Strasbourg (2012–2015).
He is co-founder and co-editor of the scientific journal Medical Image Analysis.
Research work
From 1981 to 1988, Nicholas Ayache sought to equip autonomous robots with new artificial vision capabilities (bulk object recognition, bi- and trinocular stereoscopic vision, navigation from visual maps).[10][11] Since 1988, he has been engaged in pioneering research in the field of computer analysis of medical images, image-guided therapy and surgical simulation. A central focus of his work has been the introduction of geometric, statistical, physical or functional models of the human body for the analysis and simulation of medical images. His current research focuses on the introduction of artificial intelligence algorithms to guide the diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic management of patients based on medical images and all available patient data (clinical, biological, behavioural, etc.).
The research work of Ayache and his collaborators has made a decisive contribution to the development of digital medicine worldwide.
