chahab nastar
R&D Director
chahab's Bio

Chahab heads up R&D at the Learning Planet Institute. He has over 25 years of experience as an academic, an entrepreneur, and a large company executive. After heading up a computer vision research team at Inria, he founded the startup LTU where he was the CEO. A few years later, the startup was acquired by Jastec Corporation, a listed company based in Tokyo. He spent seven years at SAP as Vice President of Research & Advanced Development. He later joined EIT Digital, a European digital innovation and education organisation, as Chief Innovation Officer.

Chahab graduated from Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and is a former fellow of the MIT Media Lab. In 2002, he was recognized by MIT's Technology Review magazine as one of the world’s top young innovators.

Research Unit "Learning Transitions"
Creation of a joint research unit on "learning transitions"
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