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Laura Chaubard is a French mathematician and the Director General of the École polytechnique,[1] the leading French engineering school with alumni such as Ampère, Becquerel, Coriolis, Carnot, Cauchy, Fresnel, Poincaré and Mandelbrot.
Laura Chaubard | |
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.jpg) Laura Chaubard in 2023 | |
| Director of the École polytechnique | |
| Assumed office 17 September 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Éric Labaye |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1980 (age 43–44) France |
| Education | Lycée Henri-IV Lycée Janson-de-Sailly |
| Alma mater | École polytechnique Paris Diderot University |
Education and career
editLaura Chaubard joined the École polytechnique in 1999. She received a PhD in mathematics in 2007 from Paris Diderot University working on Algebraic methods for formal languages.[2]
In 2006, she joined the French Directorate General of Armament (DGA) as an expert in artificial intelligence, where she notably contributed to the organization of the ESTER 2 campaign for evaluating several automatic analysis systems (transcription, segmentation, named entity recognition) of audio documents in French. Becoming the information system architect for intelligence in 2010, she was appointed in February 2013 as the head of the strategic SME office, and then responsible for budget programming from January to August 2017, always at the DGA.
On August 28, 2017, Laura Chaubard was appointed innovation advisor to the office of the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly. She notably contributed to the creation of the Définvest fund, an investment fund aimed at supporting strategic companies for the defense sector in France.[3]
During the French Council of Ministers on October 5, 2022, she was appointed Director General of the École Polytechnique, becoming the first woman to hold this position. On September 17, 2023, she was appointed acting chair of the Board of Directors of the École Polytechnique.
Awards and honors
edit- Knight of the Legion of Honour[4]
References
edit- ^ "Laura Chaubard, New Director General Of École Polytechnique – Ecole Polytechnique".
- ^ Chaubard, Laura (2007-01-01). "Méthodes algébriques pour les langages formels : applications à la logique et à la dynamique symbolique". Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- ^ Perroud, Marion (2023-10-02). "Qui est Laura Chaubard, la nouvelle patronne de l'Ecole Polytechnique?". Challenges (in French). Retrieved 2024-03-03.
- ^ "Decree of July 7, 2021, concerning promotion and appointment in the National Order of the Legion of Honor for military personnel belonging to the active army".