The Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) is a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics.

It has research units in

  • Rocquencourt (a suburb of Paris)
  • Sophia-Antipolis (near Nice);
  • Grenoble;
  • Rennes (IRISA - in association with CNRS and local universities);
  • Nancy (LORIA - in association with CNRS and local universities)
and also contributes to academic research teams outside of those centers.