Metalab and BNP Paribas have come together to combine their expertise through a 3-year joint research partnership, launched in September 2023, in collaboration with the teams at Risk Air, Group Data Office and BivwAk!

This strategic partnership aims to exchange insights, develop, and disseminate best practices in AI acceptability and deployment.

Through research focused on two key areas – Robustness of Machine Learning Models and challenges surrounding model acceptability and governance – five tenured ESSEC professors will spearhead these scientific inquiries. The findings will greatly benefit BNP Paribas collaborators.

Beyond mutual knowledge sharing and expertise development, this alliance seeks to meaningfully contribute to public discourse on ethical, fair, and trustworthy AI systems and data-driven decisions.

In concrete terms, the two partners will work together to develop a number of research projects through various means:

• Research papers,
• Joint publications,
• Annual event involving various stakeholders,
• Conferences