Scientific Advisor
Advisor
Ariana Pharma
France
An expert in artificial intelligence, Dr Sallantin is Director of Research at the LIRMM (Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro-électronique de Montpellier) of the CNRS in Montpellier France. One of the pioneers of bioinformatics in France, Jean established the bioinformatics laboratory at the Curie Institute Paris (1983-85) and was the director of the GSDIARL research consortium (1985-89) involving Sanofi, the CNRS Pharmacology Institute, the CNRS centre for macromolecular biochemistry and the Montpellier University Medical Centre. From 1993 to 1996, he was appointed the Ministry of Research correspondent on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive sciences. He currently heads the “Rationality and machine learning” team that develops and studies the applications of machine learning techniques in a scientific discovery environment. The methods and algorithms developed in his group have led to a number of patents and collaborations with large companies such as Areva and Fidal KPMG.