PEReN

PEReN is placed under the joint authority of the French Ministers of Economy, Culture and Digital Technology. Its missions and organisation are outlined in the decree of the 31st of August, 2020.

Our mission

Today, understanding data and its environment is an imperative to understand how digital platforms work, and set or adapt their regulation. PEReN was created to answer this need and form a centre of expertise in data science that can provide technical support and guidance to state administrations in need.

More specifically, PEReN can be mobilised in two types of situations:

• It can assist services with regulatory powers: in that case, the framework of intervention of PEReN is defined by a convention, which encompasses the scope of regulatory powers of the authority or administration in question, particularly concerning the authorisation to collect data or to request the assistance of external agents ;
• PEReN can also provide its expertise in research work commissioned by state administrations by conducting exploratory or scientific studies: in that case, PEReN acts as a research centre. In particular, it has a partnership on certain subjects with Inria (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology) and more particularly its pole REGALIA, which specialises in the study of algorithms (to find out more about this collaboration and other academic projects, see projects).

Digital platforms?

PEReN’s mission is to conduct studies on digital platforms (as defined by the Article L111-7 of the French Consumer Code). By doing so, it may be required to collect and process personal data, but in the sole aim of fulfilling its objective, through conventions signed with the authorities PEReN is assisting. These conventions guarantee a GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance and precisely define the authorisations granted to PEReN.

Additionally, PEReN is actively involved in the field of personal data protection: for example, it is currently working on the implementation of tools to anonymise and minimise data collected in studies (for more information, see projects).

Our team

Board

Nicolas Deffieux

Director
Before PEReN: Director of economic affairs at the ARCEP, Rapporteur Général Adjoint at the Autorité de la Concurrence.
Formation: ESSEC, civil administrator.

Florent Laboy

Deputy director
Before PEReN: Counsellor at the chambre régionale des comptes, data and methods director at the Cour des comptes.
Formation: ESSEC, ENA.

Team

Victor Amblard

Data scientist
Formation: Mines ParisTech.

Samuel Bizien-Filippi

System administrator
Before PEReN: System administrator.
Formation: Computer science and social science, ENS Ulm.

Caroline Borel

Communication and facilitation officer
Before PEReN: Communication officer at CNRS and CRE, head of Hcéres communication department.
Formation: Master's degree in management science, IAE Gustave Eiffel.

Guillaume Chaslot

Senior scientific expert in datascience and IA
Before PEReN: Data scientist at Microsoft, Google and Mozilla.
Formation: Ecole centrale de Lille, PhD in computer science.

Gaspard Defréville

Data scientist
Formation: Ecole Polytechnique, Mines ParisTech.

Joris Duguépéroux

Data scientist
Formation: PhD in computer science, ENS Rennes & Econometrics and statistics, Rennes 1/ENSAI.

Tom Houriez

Data scientist
Formation: Corps des Ingénieurs de l’Industrie et des Mines.

Antoine Ménand

Developer
Formation: Télécom Paris, Université Paris-Dauphine.

Camilla Penzo

Data Scientist
Before PEReN: Researcher in galaxy formation and deep learning (Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Université D’Artois). Formation: PhD in astrophysics, Universität Heidelberg/Max-Planck-Instut für Astronomie.

Delphine Picot

Developer
Before PEReN: Digital projects leader.
Formation: PhD in molecular modelisation, corps des Ingénieurs de l’Industrie et des Mines.

François Role

NLP and AI expert
Before PEReN: Researcher in machine-learning at Université de Paris.
Formation: PhD in computer science.

Nicolas Rolin

Data scientist
Before PEReN: Data scientist in the financial sector.
Formation: PhD in computer science, ENS Cachan.

Denis Rousselle

Data scientist
Before PEReN: Military industry, ad-tech start-up, big data in the Ministry of Armies.
Formation: PhD in machine learning and image processing, corps des Ingénieurs de l’Industrie et des Mines.

Lucas Serrano

Data scientist
Formation: PhD in computer science, ENS Cachan.

Lucas Verney

Tech Lead
Before PEReN: Research (Inria / Yale) and start-up of the deep-tech.
Formation: PhD in quantum computer science, ENS Ulm.

Léo Wanty

Data scientist
Before PEReN: Data scientist consultant.
Formation: Econometrics and statistics, TSE.

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