CESI appoints Yohan Dupuis as the Research and Development director
CESI Engineering School, renowned for its commitment to pedagogical and technological innovation, announces the appointment of Yohan Dupuis as Research and Development director and CESI LINEACT – UR 7527 research unit director, succeeding Bélahcène Mazari.
With this appointment, CESI is affirming its will to strengthen its commitment to applied research and technology development, and its support to the development of research results for the benefit of society. Ultimately, thanks to its nationwide presence, CESI carries out research in support of sustainable development, individuals, organizations, and territories.
A multidisciplinary academic career at the interface of the academic and socio-economic worlds
Holding a double engineering diploma from ESIGELEC and a Master’s Degree in Science in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College in the United States, Yohan Dupuis obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Rouen in 2012 as part of a European project on artificial intelligence and robotics applied to remote biometrics. He obtained his Research Management Accreditation (RMA) in 2019 thanks to his work dedicated to perception and decisions applied to mobility transitions.
His academic career has led him to hold several positions of responsibility and to lead numerous projects combining human sciences and engineering for the benefit of various players in the socio-economic world. He joined CESI in 2021 as Research and Innovation Department director and co-leader of the Engineering and Digital Tools team at the CESI LINEACT research unit. He has also held the role of the vice-president in charge of digital sciences for the ComUE HESAM Université. He is the initiator and scientific director of the CAIRE project, winner of the AMI CMA award, which aims to massify training programs in the use of artificial intelligence.
Enhancing the value of research to transform tomorrow: four diffusion levers
As head of CESI’s Research and Development Department, Yohan Dupuis is responsible for structuring and expanding the school’s strategy around four major pillars:
- Cultivating scientific excellence in support of training: by stepping up training in and through research, while developing applied research, in support of sustainable training programs for all, and the scientific and technological development of territories.
- Intensifying interactions between science and society: by developing open science initiatives and by ensuring the continuum of research, innovation, technology transfer and development, in order to respond to societal, social, economic, and environmental challenges.
- Developing high-level scientific and technological activity, whether multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary, to strengthen links between teaching, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship throughout the territories.
- Expanding research and innovation activities involving international cooperation, as well as CESI’s research involvement and contribution to building the European Higher Education and Research Area
I’m convinced that CESI’s scientific capital and unique technological heritage should enable us to increase our capacity to respond to the challenges that individuals, organizations, and society face in the territories
We’ll continue to develop applied and integrative scientific and technological research as the interface between the academic world and socio-economic players. Our multidisciplinary positioning is a real asset for transferring and disseminating our results to society, first and foremost through our training programs.
Yohan Dupuis
Structured, ambitious research in support of major transitions
Over the last ten years, CESI has considerably strengthened its scientific and technological research activity, namely through CESI LINEACT, its national research unit. This unit bears witness to CESI’s commitment to promoting innovation and scientific excellence in support of territories. With a community of over 220 people involved in research, including more than 190 teacher-researchers, CESI research directors, doctoral students and experts in engineering and development, CESI aims to strengthen its reputation nationally and internationally for the benefit of all territories.
The structure and quality of CESI’s research activities have been recognized by the the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres), which has positively evaluated CESI LINEACT in 2018 and 2024.
The development of technological research activities is particularly illustrated by the deployment of technological equipment and their digital twins across its network of 25 campuses, as well as by the establishment of three outstanding technological platforms designed to offer a unique technological experience at CESI.
This evolution is also underpinned by a new internal organization, with the creation of several strategic roles dedicated to scientific coordination and performance, technology transfer and development, activity organization and management, as well as harmonization of research practices across the different campuses.
Building on this vision, CESI intends to pursue its development as a major player in research for the benefit of society, helping to address the challenges of major technological, energy and environmental transitions.