The Hubert Curien Laboratory or Laboratoire Hubert Curien is a joint research unit (UMR 5516) of the University of Saint-Etienne, the National Research Centre CNRS, and (since 2016) the Institut d'Optique Graduate School.
This makes the Hubert Curien Laboratory with a total of about 240 staff the most important research structure of Saint-Etienne.
The various research activities of the laboratory are organized into two scientific departments: "Optics, photonics and microwave" and "Computer science, telecom and image".
The research activity is structured into scientific projects within 6 main teams: "Micro/Nano structuring", "Radiation-matter Interaction", "Image Science & computer vision", "Data Intelligence", "Connected Intelligence" and "Secure Embedded Systems & Hardware Architectures."
In the last few years, the laboratory has paying a special attention to interdisciplinary scientific projects including in materials and surface engineering, in image processing, in Computer vision or in artificial intelligence.