Rodolphe Vuilleumier at Ćcole Normale SupĆ©rieure is a renowned scientist on the description of chemical reactions in complex environments from quantum and statistical mechanics approaches. Recently, he has made contributions, in collaboration with Sanofi, in AI for drug design and for optimization of reaction conditions to improve reaction yields using a database extracted from literature. The Ćcole Normale SupĆ©rieure benefits from a French government funded program (CMA-IA) to establish a new curriculum on AI for physics, chemistry and biology, building upon the world leading mathematics departments of the Ecole normale supĆ©rieure and Paris-Dauphine.