Well, the moment has come for our research team, in Centre Borelli ENS Paris-Saclay, currently known Machine Learning and Massive Data Analysis (MLMDA), to rethink the way we present ourselves, with a name the expresses well our current research affaires.
And the new name is … [drum roll]
Learning and Information Processing Systems (LIPS)
It comprises two parts:
- “Learning Systems”: This corresponds to all the challenges behind machine learning: mathematical modeling, learning theory, optimization, statistics, etc.
- “Information Processing Systems”: This part expresses the broad range of data types and applications we work on.
As for the term “Systems”, it highlights the systemic view we take when looking over complex problems (e.g. applications, industrial problems, etc.), which may involve the know-how from several fields and subfields.
LIPS is supposed to replace the previous MLMDA name, but its use will remain mainly internal for organizational purposes (for instance, our seminars will be called from now on the LIPS seminars). This is a choice that has been made all these years, to present ourselves publicly less as a distinct research team and rather as a team that is part of a very dynamic research center… the Centre Borelli, where teams and persons are in regular exchange and cross the borders of their main field(s) of interest as part of their unique way of doing things.
