1.6 Scientific Project: 1.6.1 Analysis of The Current Situation

1.6. Scientific project 1.
General information
• Uncertainty about the financing of the NewUni project. These kinds of projects of major
importance for the country require a lot of support in the first years, so long as the model on
which the project is conceived can function fully and show its efficiency. All the research activity
of NewUni, including the LTCI, will be impacted by whether we will get this support or not
and its importance.
• Lack of support from the staff to the school relocation. The move to Saclay does not please
the staff members who expect difficulties related to the lengthening of the distance between
their workplace and their place of residence. Thus, there is a risk of losing some of our good
researchers because of this move and, probably, difficulties in maintaining at the current level
all the excellent collaborations we have with our partners in Paris.
1.6 Scientific project

This section presents the project of the LTCI. To better understand the perspectives for the LTCI,
we first discuss the current situation in Section 1.6.1, then we present the project of the laboratory
in Section 1.6.2.
1.6.1 Analysis of the current situation

LTCI is a laboratory of Télécom ParisTech (Institut Mines-Télécom) and one of NewUni’s main
laboratories in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), in terms of size
and terms of scientific production. Its mission is to contribute, by the excellence of its research,
to the advancement of the knowledge in the field of information sciences and the development
of the potential of French innovation in the digital domain. Fully integrated into the NewUni
project, where it is considered as one of the pillars of the Faculty of Data Sciences and Information
Technologies, LTCI aims to contribute to some of its major objectives, namely the development
of scientific research at the highest level, the strengthening of the PhD Program, the emergence
of interdisciplinary research, and the development of the innovation potential and transfer to the
industry.
LTCI is composed of 3 research and teaching departments, gathering 16 teams and covering
different scientific disciplines in the ICT field. As each department operates autonomously, han-
dling such a diversity while targeting the emergence of a collective vision is not an easy task. To
strengthen the link between the lab and its teams and enable the LTCI to better play its role, we
carried out the five actions mentioned in the SWOT analysis (threats in Section 1.5), following
the end of the partnership with CNRS. We also opened a discussion on the recomposition of the
teams, regardless of frontiers of the departments, and called for the recomposition of the teams
around a clear scientific project carried by a team leader freely chosen by the members of the
team. This took us more than six months in 2017. It results in few changes in the composition of
the teams, but we succeeded in clarifying the scientific project of each team and in clarifying the
role of the teams and their responsibilities.
The work done for the definition of the scientific projects of the teams led to a set of documents,
summarizing the main expertise of each team, their main scientific objectives, and the associated
SWOT analysis. It gives us a global vision of the expertises of the lab and the complementarity
between its teams. The project described below gives our current vision of the strategy of the lab
for the coming years, based on the scientific projects of the teams and the SWOT analysis given
in the previous section. This strategy could evolve during the next period, especially with the
creation of NewUni and the definition of a global strategy for this new university.
1.6.2 Perspectives and project

In the past years, the LTCI has contributed to the emergence of new ideas and techniques to
tackle the challenges raised by the digital transformation and the key societal transitions. Among
theses challenges we can mention three that are in the core interests of the LTCI: security and
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