Isabelle Bloch (also published as Isabelle Bloch-Boulanger) is a French computer scientist working in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

image understanding Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the form o ...

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, and spatial reasoning. She is a professor in LIP6, the computer science laboratory of

Sorbonne University Sorbonne University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the Unive ...

, where she holds the Artificial Intelligence Chair.

Education and career

Bloch is a 1986 graduate of

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. After a 1987 master's degree from Paris-East Créteil University, she completed a Ph.D. from

Télécom Paris Télécom Paris (also known as ENST or Télécom or École nationale supérieure des télécommunications ; also Télécom ParisTech until 2019) is a French public institution for higher education (''grande école'') and engineering research. Loc ...

in 1990, and continued at Télécom Paris as a professor and researcher beginning in 1991. In 1995 she earned a

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through

Paris Descartes University Paris Descartes University (), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 1970. Paris Descartes completely merg ...

. She moved to her present position at Sorbonne University in 2020.

Recognition

Bloch was the 2008 recipient of the of the French (SEE). She is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. She was named a knight in the

Legion of Honour The National Order of the Legion of Honour ( ), formerly the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour (), is the highest and most prestigious French national order of merit, both military and Civil society, civil. Currently consisting of five cl ...

in 2021.

References

External links

Home page at Télécom Paris
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bloch, Isabelle Year of birth missing (living people) Living people French computer scientists French women computer scientists ParisTech alumni Academic staff of ParisTech Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence Knights of the Legion of Honour