FusionMind
DemonstratorMembersLook for the solution to an engineering problem in other scientific disciplines.
PhD thesis of Nicolas Douard (2025)
Research / T4
Interdisciplinary knowledge discovery
The answer often lives in another discipline.
Measuring interdisciplinarity in scientific articles and linking engineering problems to knowledge from biology, physics or materials science.
Doctoral work in the team has built deep-learning models that estimate how interdisciplinary an article is, and large topic graphs that reveal thematic links between engineering and biology. FusionMind turns this into a tool that looks for solutions in distant fields.
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OperationalMembersIdentify a problem quickly and concentrate on solving it.
Maturation project led by Pei Zhang as a postdoctoral researcher (PhD thesis 2019)
Related publications
All publications2025 · Journal article
Quantifying Interdisciplinarity in Scientific Articles Using Deep Learning Toward a TRIZ-Based Framework for Cross-Disciplinary Innovation
Nicolas Douard, Ahmed Samet, George Giakos, Denis Cavallucci
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction
2025 · Conference paper
FusionTRIZ Framework for Cross-Disciplinary Innovation: A Neuromorphic Imaging Application
Nicolas Douard, Ahmed Samet, Denis Cavallucci, George Giakos
2025 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST)
2025 · Journal article
Large-scale transformer-based topic graphs identify thematic links between engineering and biology
Nicolas Douard, Denis Cavallucci, Ahmed Samet, George Giakos
Scientific Reports
2024 · Conference paper
An Interdisciplinary Framework for Systematic Innovation: A Case Study on Nature-Inspired Imaging Solutions
Nicolas Douard, Ahmed Samet, Denis Cavallucci, George Giakos
IEEE International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) 2024, 14-16 Oct. 2024, Tokyo, Japan
2024 · Conference paper
A Novel Interdisciplinarity Model Towards Inter-domain Information Pairing
Nicolas Douard, Ahmed Samet, George Giakos, Denis Cavallucci
24th International TRIZ Future Conference (TFC)
2022 · Conference paper
Bridging Two Different Domains to Pair Their Inherent Problem-Solution Text Contents: Applications to Quantum Sensing and Biology
Nicolas Douard, Ahmed Samet, George Giakos, Denis Cavallucci
22th International TRIZ Future Conference (TFC)
2020 · Conference paper
A Future Eco-Design Framework Based on TRIZ’s Contradictions and Bio-Inspired Design Process
Marouane Mouatassim, Mickaël Gardoni, Arlindo da Silva, Denis Cavallucci, Houcine Dammak, Abdellatif Dkhil
20th International TRIZ Future Conference (TFC 2020)
2018 · Conference paper
Development of an Ontology of Biomimetics Based on Altshuller’s Matrix
Julian Vincent, Denis Cavallucci
18th TRIZ Future Conference (TFC)
2016 · Journal article
The evaluation of creativity from the perspective of subject matter and training in higher education: Issues, constraints and limitations
Stéphanie Fischer, David Oget, Denis Cavallucci
Thinking Skills and Creativity