Isabelle Bloch

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Isabelle Bloch (also published as Isabelle Bloch-Boulanger) is a French computer scientist working in artificial intelligence, image understanding, explainable artificial intelligence, and spatial reasoning. She is a professor in LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Sorbonne University, where she holds the Artificial Intelligence Chair. [1]

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Education and career

Bloch is a 1986 graduate of Mines ParisTech. After a 1987 master's degree from Paris-East Créteil University, she completed a Ph.D. from Télécom Paris in 1990, [2] and continued at Télécom Paris as a professor and researcher beginning in 1991. [3]

In 1995 she earned a habilitation through Paris Descartes University. She moved to her present position at Sorbonne University in 2020. [2]

Recognition

Bloch was the 2008 recipient of the Blondel Medal  [ fr ] of the French Société de l'électricité, de l'électronique et des technologies de l'information et de la communication  [ fr ] (SEE). [3] [4] She is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. [5]

She was named a knight in the Legion of Honour in 2021. [6]

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References

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