Université Paris Cité is located at the heart of Paris. The world ‘Cité’ in the university’s name means ‘Global Village’ and this is how Université Paris Cité is described. It is an international agora where people can connect, learn, explore and innovate.
The university is committed to building a future that benefits everyone which is embodied in its moto: Planetary health - healthy people, in healthy societies, on a healthy planet.
The university is recognised for its programme diversity, its capacity for innovation as well as for its active participation in the development of the European Education and Research Areas.
Université Paris Cité and Circle U.
As one of Circle U.’s founding universities, Université Paris Cité has actively contributed to the development of the alliance. Sharing the same concerns for Health, the university has been leading the Circle U. ‘Global Health Hub’ and welcoming every year the Summer School: Rethinking global health. Additionally, Université Paris Cité is responsible for coordinating communication across the alliance.
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At Université Paris Cité, the Circle U. team can answer your questions, organise students' mobility and help administrative staff and academics in their projects.
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Laetitia Antlani-Duault
- Vice-President for International Affairs
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Laetitia Antlani-Duault
- Vice-President for International Affairs
- Board member
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Prof. Jean-Philippe Empana
- Academic Director of the Global Health KH
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Prof. Jean-Philippe Empana
- Academic Director of the Global Health KH
- Academic Chair
MD, PhD and co-team leader of an INSERM research team dedicated to cardiovascular disease epidemiology (CVD) in Paris, France. Main areas of expertise: risk prediction, big data and novel approach in the prevention of CVD including primordial prevention (prevention of risk factors onset).
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INSERM, Paris Cardiovascular Research Centre
Dr. Guillaume Wisniewski
- Knowledge hub AI
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Dr. Guillaume Wisniewski
- Knowledge hub AI
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I am an Assistant Professor at Université Paris Cité and a member of the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle. My research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular emphasis on Natural Language Processing – essentially, getting computers to understand and generate human language.
After completing a PhD in Computer Science specializing in Machine Learning, I spent several years working on statistical machine translation and the development of multilingual models. More recently, my research has shifted towards the analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. My goal is to understand what kind of knowledge – especially linguistic knowledge – these models capture and how they acquire it.
In addition to my research, I teach various NLP-related topics, including Transformer-based methods, as well as courses in data science. I also serve as the program director for the Master’s in Computational Linguistics at Université Paris Cité, a program designed to equip students with both theoretical and practical skills in NLP, preparing them for careers in industry or research through interdisciplinary training in computer science, data science, linguistics, and AI.
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guillaume.wisniewski@u-paris.fr
Department of Linguistics
Université Paris Cité
Prof. Xiaofeng Guo
- Climate KH
- Academic Chair
Prof. Xiaofeng Guo
- Climate KH
- Academic Chair
Xiaofeng Guo is a full professor at the Faculty of Sciences, Université Paris Cité. His research is within Paris Interdisciplinary Energy Research Institute (PIERI - LIED UMR 8236), which also belongs to CNRS. The goal of his research is to facilitate energy transition with a systematic approach at multiple scales. At the city scale, he worked on waste energy recovery for heating and cooling; At the building scale, he is interested in energy audit methods hybridizing bigdata with physics. He holds an Energy Engineer background and as a Circle U. Chair in Climate, he is eager to make into action energy transition knowledges.
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Faculté des Sciences
Université Paris Cité
Assoc. Prof. Karine Paris
- CU.mil
- Academic Chair
Assoc. Prof. Karine Paris
- CU.mil
- Academic Chair
She's an English associate professor at the School for Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies at Université Paris Cité. She has extensive experience in teaching general English and English for specific purposes. She coordinates English courses for Master’s degree courses in communication, journalism and sustainable development.
She also works at the Language Resource Center where she designs online English courses for humanities and science students and coordinates a team of instructors. Recently she has taken part in the language working group in charge of making recommendations on the future organization of language courses and language teachers’ training at UPC to better meet students’, staff’s and faculty’s needs.
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karine.paris@u-paris.fr
School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies and Language Resource Center
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
Université Paris Cité
Prof. Sophie Coeuré
- Democracy KH
- Academic Chair
Prof. Sophie Coeuré
- Democracy KH
- Academic Chair
Sophie Coeuré is Full Professor of contemporary history at Université Paris Cité. Her research and teaching interests include Russian-Soviet and European modern History, Communism in a globalized world, displaced cultural proper-ties, and the comparative political and cultural history of archives. Her current research project focuses on dissident movements and the defense of human rights in USSR and the “Eastern bloc” in the 1950-1990s, transnational mobili-zations and information flows. She develops teaching and joint reflection with students on public history, the political uses of history. Full bibliography, keyword Coeuré.
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Professor of contemporary history
Faculté Sociétés et Humanités
Université Paris Cité
Prof. Mariam Haspekian
- CU.til
- Academic Chair
Prof. Mariam Haspekian
- CU.til
- Academic Chair
Mariam Haspekian is Professor in Educational Sciences at University Paris Cité, and director of the EDA laboratory from September 2024.
She has been a mathematics teacher since 1997 then researcher in mathematics education since 2007. In 2011, she joined Descartes University, where she directed the Bachelor of Education for 8 years.
Throughout her career, she has taught a wide range of didactic/mathematics subjects from bachelor/master students in education to secondary school mathematics-teachers and teacher trainers.
Her research focuses on teaching practices in mathematics and the integration of technology in mathematics teaching. She has participated in several international research projects and training programs such as the MOOC of the ICMI Commission dedicated to research in math-education.
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SHS, Department of Sciences of Education
University Paris Cité
Assoc. Prof. Sophie Maisonneuve
- Open Campus
- Academic Chair
Assoc. Prof. Sophie Maisonneuve
- Open Campus
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Sophie Maisonneuve is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Université Paris Cité. Her research interests lay in the socio-political, economic and technological issues involved in the process of making audiovisual collections part of a local, national or transnational heritage, with an emphasis on representation and participation. She teaches cultural policies and the sociology of culture, exploring its role as a tool for emancipation. As the international coordinator at UPCité Institute, she is dedicated to developing innovative projects that broaden students' global perspectives and raise their awareness of contemporary societal issues through various tools of internationalisation at home.
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Associate Professor in Sociology
Faculté Société et Humanités
Université Paris Cité
