Director: Violaine Prince
Assistants: Christophe Paul , Anne Laurent and Christophe Fiorio
Local contact: Abdelkader Gouaich
Budgets: Martine Hornby
CURI Commission contact: Rémi Coletta
PhD candidate directors: Gilles Simonin and Julien Champ
Web contact: Martine Hornby

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The LIRMM Informatics Department is currently composed of 85 permanent researchers, 16 associates and 70 PhD candidates. Each year, the department welcomes several guest and post-doc professors for periods from a few weeks to a full year. Informatics teams are supported by contract engineers in the framework of European and industry projects, as well as national activities.

Informatics Department research topics cover the main body of research in the Informatics field today:

• Algorithmics
  
• Databases
  
• Information systems
  
• Software engineering
  
• Artificial intelligence
  
• Networks
  
• Mathematics: arithmetic, combinatorics, optimization
  
• Cognitive and human sciences: natural language, social networks
  
• Life sciences: bioinformatics

The department is organized into 12 project-teams, including one that is common with the Robotics department.