Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble


The Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble is the largest research laboratory of Informatics in Grenoble, France. It was created 1 January 2007, as the result of a union of the 24 research teams of the previous IMAG Institute and the INRIA Rhône-Alpes.
The scientific project of the LIG is "ambient and sustainable IT". The goal is to leverage the complementary nature and recognised quality of the 23 research teams of the LIG to contribute to fundamental aspects of the discipline and to create a synergy between the conceptual, technological and societal challenges that surround this theme.
The Grenoble Informatics Laboratory is a laboratory of quite some scale, the academic partners being:
The CNRS,
Grenoble INP,
Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes,
the Université Joseph Fourier,
the Université Pierre-Mendès-France,
the Université Stendhal.
The LIG is formed by about 500 people:

- 41% of PhD students,

- 26% of teacher-researchers,

- 14% of post-doc, invited, contracts,

- 10% of full-time researchers,

- 9% of administrative and technical staff.

History

The LIG is under the joint supervision of the université Grenoble-Alpes, the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble, and the CNRS. It is a partner of the INRIA.
Under the impetus of Brigitte Plateau, this laboratory is the result of the amalgamation of five former laboratories of the Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble of Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes.
In 2016, the laboratory, moved from Rue de la Piscine to the IMAG building on Avenue Centrale, by the Laboratoire Jean-Kuntzmann and the VERIMAG laboratory.

Research Domains

LIG research covers a very large range of domains in Informatics. Topics includes for instance Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Multimedia, Natural Language Processing, Databases, Knowledge representation, Geographic Information Systems Virtual reality, Multi-agent systems, Distributed systems, Information systems, Quantum Computation, etc.

Research Teams

The list of LIG teams is as follows:

The courses

Some masters offered by Grenoble-Alpes University require research workshops in the first and second year. Most of the workshops take place at the LIG, thanks to the geographical proximity of the buildings and to the proximity between the students and the teacher-researchers.

Student associations

There is a student association at LIG, LIG-Synergy. The aim of this association is to promote scientific and social life between PhD students working in the Grenoble computer lab or in collaboration with them. Its activities may be extended to include other personnel of the Laboratory, by welcoming newcomers, organizing social events and scientific seminars, and various services.