Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Sorbonne Université and a researcher at CNRS in the Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences Laboratory (LISN), Laurence Devillers leads the HUMAAINE chair: Human-Machine Affective Interaction & Ethics. Her research focuses primarily on social and human-machine interaction, emotion detection, spoken dialogue, affective robotics, and ethics. She has contributed to multiple national and European projects on affective and social human-robot interactions.
She serves as President of the Blaise Pascal Foundation, which promotes scientific outreach in mathematics and computer science. She has been a member of national and international digital ethics committees, as well as AFNOR. She has authored over 200 scientific publications (Google h-index: 47) and several books for the general public, including:
Des robots et des hommes (Plon, 2017)
Les robots émotionnels (L’Observatoire, 2020)
IA, Ange ou Démon ? (CERF, 2025)
Savoir vivre avec l’IA (Denoël, 2026)