Julien Aligon is an Associate Professor (HDR) in Computer Science at Toulouse Capitole University, affiliated with the IRIT laboratory (CNRS, SIG team) and a partner member of the RESTORE laboratory (CNRS/INSERM), which focuses on ageing research.

His research focuses on the intelligibility of predictive analytics, with two main research areas: predictive model recommendation systems and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), a research topic he has helped develop since 2020.

He has supervised or co-supervised 9 PhD theses (5 completed and 4 ongoing) and is the author of around 40 scientific publications (16 international journal papers, 20 international conference papers, and 9 national conference papers), including publications in Information Systems, Nature Metabolism, Aging Cell. His research has also resulted in an international patent.