Guillaume Chevillon

News in the Academic year 2024/25

April 2025

• Our new paper "Towards empirical assessments of controlled cointegrated models" with Takamitsu Kurita was presented at the Oxford Workshop for the 40th anniversary of cointegration

• Et si ChatGPT écrivait déjà mieux que nous,  Le Point, 19 April 2025, with Nicolas Gaudement (onepoint group).

March 2025

• After 10 years building and running the ESSEC|CentraleSupélec Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics, I'm very pleased with the fantastic program we've created and the many cohorts of students that have passed through it. I have now resigned and have been replaced by my colleague Jeroen Rombouts who has joined the team! I will now focus on the ESSEC Metalab for Data, Technology & Society as well as the Media & Digital Chair.

• Numérique, la nouvelle frontière ? Reflets Magazine, 156, mars-avril 2025, pp. 46-7.

January 2025

• We are  in the process of revamping the Media & Digital Chair at ESSEC which I took responsibility for,  with a new Executive Director, Jean-Noël Tronc  – more to come soon!

• Intelligence artificielle : « Une nouvelle forme de créativité émerge, accessible à tous », Le Monde, 4 January 2025, with Julien Malaurent, without paywall here in French or in English.

December 2024

• Excited to present The Queer Algorithm  in  poster at NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Queer in AI on December 10. 

November 2024

• Happy to be invited to the 6th Aarhus Workshop in Econometrics on 28-29/11 to present my paper with Anurag Banerjee "A Quasi/Latent Method of Moment Estimator for Nonstationaty State-Space Models, with an Application to Explosive Random Coefficient Autoregressions"

• Sands of Self is published in Azimuts, n°58 "Utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle en art et en design", pp. 104-9 with Mounir Ayache & Jeff Guess. 

October 2024

• The project Sands of Self is presented October 10, 2024 – April 7, 2025 at the 101 Art Design Center in Fuzhou as part of Terrestrial Waves.
  We've started a new project this year with Jeff Guess, Nicolas Gourault and Elouan Le Bars. 

• How data & AI transform firms & organizations 4-day seminar with the onepoint group at ESSEC, 7-10 October 2024. 

September 2024

• The Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics is yet again #1 in Europe, #3 worldwide in the 2025 QS ranking.

• Research Presentation: What Does it Take to Control Global Temperatures? A toolbox for estimating the impact of economic policies on climate, with Takamitsu Kurita (Kyoto Sangyo University)

  • NBER/NSF Time Series Conference, University of Pennsylvania

  • Workshop on “Energy Transition and Climate Change”, University of California Riverside

• Research Presentation: The Queer Algorithm,  School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, LA.

Academic year 2023/24:

• Research

  • Annual survey with Verian (ex Kantar Public) and Claranet on AI & Data jobs in large French groups. 

  • Many thanks to participants at my seminar at Keio University, Economics Department on April 23rd, for their lively questions on my paper What Does it Take to Control Global Temperatures? A toolbox for estimating the impact of economic policies on climate, with Takamitsu Kurita (Kyoto Sangyo University)  https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05818 (reviewed in an ESSEC Knowledge Special Edition. – also in French here)

  • ESSEC Foundation for the White Project Award I received on March 27 on AI & Creativity, aiming to work on a right-brain complement to some of my previous work.

  • New working paper: The Queer Algorithm where I draw on multidisciplinary research, with an emphasis on social sciences and economics, to study to what extent the tools of Artificial Intelligence and data analysis currently incorporate in their design the diversity of cognitive and physical human experiences in space and time. My aim to is to render AI efficient at mapping more desirable possible futures. 

  • Workshop on Uncertainty, Shocks & Macroeconomic Fluctuations that we organized at ESSEC with Frédérique Bec (CY Cergy Paris University) & Sophocles Mavroeidis (Oxford University) on March 9, 2024.

  • First issue of the Metalab Review that is devoted to contributions by IDEAS, the student think tank we've created. 

  • ESSEC-CYU-Warwick econometrics workshop at ESSEC.

• Press & Media

  • Three ways to optimise your business school’s AI-related offering, with Abdelmounaim Derraz and Julien Malaurent. Times Higher Education, 23 August 2024.

  • « 85% des métiers de 2030 n’existent pas encore » : vers quelles formations se tourner ? interview by Mathilde de Cessole in L'Express, 4 June 2024.

  • Numérique, à la recherche du Cloud Européen, interview by Nicolas Chalon in L'Hémicycle, No 516, June 2024, pp 124-7

  • Réussir la transformation numérique dépendra surtout de « la capacité des dirigeants d’entreprise à prendre les bonnes décisions pour ne pas se faire distancer » Le Monde, 10 June 2024, with Laure Salvaing (Managing Director, Verian Group). English version here. 

  • I'm grateful to L'Humanité for their invitation to participate in their debate on AI & jobs: « L’intelligence artificielle menace-t-elle l’emploi ?». L'Humanité, 23 April 2024 (paywall). 

  • Kudos to the organisers of the VOUS+AI KIF-Knowledge Immersive Forum at Grand Palais Immersif on April 2nd  –  I was happy to participate, it was a super interesting day. 

  • « L’IA impactera 80% des métiers et vous n’aurez peut-être pas encore choisi le vôtre !» Thotis Media (for Classes Prépa), 28 Feb

• « L'IA, une menace pour l'emploi en France? » interview by Charlotte Hill for Agence France Presse, 24 January 2024.

• • « Nous ne sommes pas voués à être remplacés par des machines, aussi “intelligentes” soient-elles », Le Monde, 15 December 2023 – with Julien Malaurent. English translation here (without paywall).

• • Comment s'adapter à la révolution de l'IA? Interview in L'Obs. 14 December 2023. Intelligence artificielle : « Pour concevoir une agence de sécurité de l’IA, il faut penser, et surtout prévoir, son impact sur les comportements humains », Le Monde, 17/18 Septembre 2023, published in print as "Comment sécuriser les algorithmes" as part of the IDEES report "Est-il possible de réguler l'IA". Thanks to Frédéric Martel for reviewing it in Soft Power on France Culture (17/9).

  • Navigating algorithm insights into our sexual orientation was published by Openly – Thomson Reuters Foundation

• ESSEC Pedagogy

  • The  It is a collective project in the framework of a joint course offered by Jeff Guess (École nationale supérieure d'arts Paris-Cergy) and myself at ESSEC to our students, 

  • The Master in Data Sciences & Business Analytics has regained its position as #1 in Europe, #3 worldwide in the 2024 QS ranking.

  • October: running an intense hackathon on Data & Generative AI for our PreMaster students with Nora Diep and onepoint (10-13/10)

  • Happy to create a new course between ESSEC & ENSAPC on AI & Creation with Jeff Guess & guest artist Mounir Ayache who proposed to create a video game using Artificial Intelligence in all aspects of production. 

    • Exhibition Sands of Self opened at Centre d'art Ygrec -ENSAPC  March 1st–April 27. 

    • A piece related to the exhibition Sands of Self was on display at POUSH as part of the Nord-Est show.

Previous year summaries here.