French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation


The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics.
It was created under the name Institut de recherche en informatique et en automatique in 1967 at Rocquencourt near Paris, part of Plan Calcul. Its first site was the historical premises of SHAPE. In 1980 IRIA became INRIA. Since 2011, it has been styled Inria.
Inria is a Public Scientific and Technical Research Establishment under the double supervision of the French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction and Research and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.

Administrative status

Inria has 8 research centers distributed along France and one center abroad in Santiago de Chile, Chile. It also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers.
Before December 2007, the three centers of Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay formed a single research center called INRIA Futurs.
In October 2010, Inria, with Pierre and Marie Curie University and Paris Diderot University started IRILL, a center for innovation and research initiative for free software.
Inria employs 3800 people. Among them are 1300 researchers, 1000 Ph.D. students and 500 postdoctorates.

Research

Inria does both theoretical and applied research in computer science. In the process, it has produced many widely used programs, such as
Inria furthermore leads French AI Research, ranking 12th worldwide in 2019, based on accepted publications at the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.