Bernard Picinbono is a French scientist born in 1933 in Algiers. His scientific work focuses on statistics and its applications in optics, electronics, signal processing and automation.
He did his secondary and higher education in Algiers and then in Paris where he obtained the agrégation de sciences physiques.
He was associate professor of physical sciences at the Algiers high school from 1956 to 1960 and then, after obtaining a doctorate in science, lecturer at the Faculty of Science in Algiers from 1960 to 1965. He was then appointed professor at the Orsay Faculty of Sciences. He was President of the University of Paris XI (now Paris-Saclay University) from 1970 to 1975, President of SupOptique (Institute of Theoretical and Applied Optics) from 1980 to 1990, and Director General of Supélec from 1990 to 1995. In the early 1980s, he was director of the master (DEA) in Automation and Signal Processing at the University of Paris XI and lectures at Supélec's signals and systems laboratory.
He is Professor Emeritus at the Paris-Saclay University and at CentraleSupélec.
Bernard Picinbono was President of Cimade from 1970 to 1983 and again from 1997 to 2002. [1]
École Centrale Paris was a French grande école in engineering and science. It was also known by its official name École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. In 2015, École Centrale Paris merged with Supélec to form CentraleSupélec, a constituent college of the University of Paris-Saclay.
Alain Aspect is a French physicist noted for his experimental work on quantum entanglement.
The École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, formerly ENS Cachan, is a grande école and a constituent member of Paris-Saclay University. It was established in 1892. It is located in Gif-sur-Yvette within the Essonne department near Paris, Île-de-France, France.
IEEE Communications Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by the IEEE Communications Society since 1997 and covering communications technology. The editor-in-chief is Marco Di Renzo. According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2021 impact factor of 3.457.
École supérieure d'électricité, commonly known as Supélec, was a French graduate school of engineering. It was one of the most prestigious grande écoles in France in the field of electrical engineering, energy and information sciences. In 2015, Supélec merged with École Centrale Paris and became CentraleSupélec, a constituent member of Université Paris-Saclay.
André-Eugène Blondel was a French engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement.
The Polytech Group is a French network of 15 public graduate schools of engineering within France's leading technological universities:
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology.
Vincent Daniel Blondel is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and current rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's research lies in the area of mathematical control theory and theoretical computer science. He is mostly known for his contributions in computational complexity in control, multi-agent coordination and complex networks.
The CEA Paris-Saclay center is one of nine centers belonging to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). The Saclay site hosts the administrative headquarters of the CEA. Historically, it was the heart of French nuclear research since Frederic Joliot-Curie founded it after the Second World War. Its campus was designed by the architect Auguste Perret.
Paris-Saclay University is a combined technological research institute and public research university in Paris, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical grandes écoles, as well as several technological institutes, engineering schools, and research facilities; giving it fifteen constituent colleges with over 48.000 students combined.
CentraleSupélec (CS) is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles in France and is a member of the graduate engineering school of Paris-Saclay University in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. It was established on 1 January 2015, as a result of a strategic merger between two prestigious grandes écoles in France, École Centrale Paris and Supélec. CentraleSupélec is also considered to be among the best engineering schools of France and most elite institutions in Europe, with an admission rate of 6 to 8% in 2019. It is one of the constituent members of Paris-Saclay University.
Mérouane Debbah is a researcher, educator and technology entrepreneur. Over his career, he has founded several public and industrial research centers, start-ups and is now professor at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and founding director of the Khalifa University 6G center. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international events in the field of telecommunication and AI. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information and communication sciences with a special focus on random matrix theory and learning algorithms. In the communication field, he has been at the heart of the development of small cells (4G), massive MIMO (5G) and large intelligent surfaces (6G) technologies. In the AI field, he is known for his work on large language models, distributed AI systems for networks and semantic communications. He received multiple prestigious distinctions, prizes and best-paper awards for his contributions to both fields and according to research.com is ranked as the best scientist in France in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.
Odile Macchi is a French physicist and mathematician. She has been a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2004.
Laurence Devillers, is a professor of artificial intelligence & ethics at Paris-Sorbonne University since 2011 and at Computer science laboratory for mechanics and engineering sciences (LIMSI) at the Scientific Research National Center, a head of the team "Affective and social dimension in spoken interaction". Laurence Devillers has taken part in several national and European projects on human-robots social and affective interactions. Laurence Devillers is leading a cluster of robots-human co-evolution at the Institute of Digital Society and "Robotic interactive" at Paris-Saclay.
Daniel Kaplan is a French condensed matter physicist whose main work concerns the electronic properties of semiconductors, magnetic resonance and ultra-short pulse lasers. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Alain Bensoussan, born on 12 May 1940 in Tunis, is a French mathematician. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Dauphine and Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Erich Spitz is a French engineer and physicist of Moravian German ethnicity.
Jeannine Henaff is a French electrical engineer affiliated with the Centre national d'études des télécommunications who published early work on the applications of surface acoustic waves in electronics, including the use of SAW filters to perform Hadamard transforms for videotelephony.
Clara Jody Saraceno is a laser scientist whose research involves the development of ultrafast lasers, a technology whose applications include ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and imaging biological processes at the molecular scale. Born in Argentina and educated in France and Switzerland, she works in Germany as a professor in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of Ruhr University Bochum, where she holds the Chair of Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science.