Launch of 10th edition of CNIL-Inria Privacy Award

Who is concerned by the award?

The CNIL-Inria Privacy Award is intended to promote research in Computer Science and Privacy and to raise awareness among citizens and decision-makers on privacy and data protection issues.

Submitted papers must present work, at least partly, conducted in a research center based in one of the 27 countries of the European Union (thus excluding the UK and Switzerland), and must necessarily address the improvement of the protection of personal data, AI transparency, or privacy.

Papers must:

• Have been published or accepted for publication between 2023 and 2026,
• Be written in French or English,
• Describe a research result, a technical innovation, propose a didactic presentation of the state of the art or an initiative to promote interdisciplinarity.

It should be possible to convey the substance of the contribution of the article in terms accessible to non-experts.

Examples of possible topics include (without limitation):

• Artificial intelligence and algorithm transparency,
• Privacy tools usability,
• New types of tracking and protections,
• User perspective on privacy,
• Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs),
• Anonymization and reidentification,
• Applied cryptography,
• New opportunities and risks of GenAI (e.g. deepfakes),
• Challenges and solutions to implement the GDPR.

How can I participate?

Applications files should be submitted before February 20th, 2026 midnight on the Easychair system.

The rules of contest are available here.

To get more information about the award please use the following email address: prix.cnil-inria[at]cnil.fr.

The jury is co‑organised by two co‑presidents, Nataliia Bielova (Inria) and Vincent Toubiana (CNIL) and with two vice‑presidents, Benjamin Nguyen (Inria/INSA Centre Val de Loire)  and Claude Casteluccia (CNIL-Inria).

The members of the jury are:

• Imad Aad (EPFL – Switzerland)
• Nicolas Anciaux (Inria, PETRUS team – France)
• Asia Biega (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy – Germany)
• Nataliia Bielova (Inria PRIVATICS team – France)
• Joe Calandrino (Carnegie Mellon University –USA)
• Claude Castelluccia (CNIL/Inria Privatics team – France)
• Estelle Cherrier-Pawlowski (GREYC lab – ENSICAEN/CNRS – France)
• Jean-François Couchot (Université of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, FEMTO-ST - France)
• Mathieu Cunche (INSA-Lyon, Inria PRIVATICS – France)
• Giuseppe D’Acquisto (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali – Italy)
• Josep Domingo-Ferrer (University Rovira i Virgil, Director-CYBERCAT – Spain)
• Simone Fischer-Hübner (Karlstad University – Sweden)
• Sepideh Ghanavati (University of Maine – USA)
• Sébastien Gambs (University of Québec in Montréal – Canada)
• Marit Hansen (State Data Protection Commissioner of Land Schleswig-Holstein and Landeszentrum für Datenschutz – Germany)
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman (Radboud University Nijmegen – Netherlands)
• Kévin Huguenin (Université de Lausanne – Switzerland)
• Marc-Olivier Killijian (Université du Québec à Montréal – Canada)
• Pierre Laperdrix (Université de Lille/CNRS – Inria Sprials team – France)
• Maryline Laurent (Telecom SudParis – France)
• Maryam Mehrnezhad (Royal Holloway University of London – Royaume-Uni)
• Benjamin Nguyen (Inria/INSA Centre Val de Loire – France) 
• Sandra Siby (New York University Abu Dhabi – USA)
• Fabien Tarissan (CNIL- ENS Paris-Saclay – France)
• Vincent Toubiana (CNIL – France)
• Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez (IMDEA Networks Institute and ICSI, University of California, Berkeley – Spain and USA)
• Kim Wuyts (PwC Beligum – Belgium)
• Yixin Zou (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy – Germany)

The winner will be awarded during the conference Privacy Research Day 2026 and will be invited to present their paper during the conference which will take place in on June 24, 2026 in Paris.