Marie-Odile Cordier (born 1950) is a retired French computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, and in particular in the diagnosis of discrete event dynamic systems. Before retiring, she was a professor at the University of Rennes 1, where she headed the DREAM team, a project for diagnosis, reasoning, and modeling of discrete event systems at the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA). [1]
Cordier is originally from Paris, where she was born in 1950. [1] She studied computer science at Paris-Sud University, earning a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1979 under the direction of Jacques Pitrat and a doctorat d'état in 1986 under the direction of Daniel Kayser. [2] [3] She completed a habilitation at Paris-Sud University in 1996. [1]
After working as an associate professor at Paris-Sud University, she moved to the University of Rennes as a full professor in 1988. [1] Her doctoral students at Rennes have included Sylvie Thiébaux and Marie-Christine Rousset. [2] [3]
Cordier was named as a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (formerly ECCAI) in 2001. [1] [4] She was the 2015 recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX). [5]