15 Notable alumni of
Grenoble Institute of Technology
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Grenoble Institute of Technology is 2375th in the world, 767th in Europe, and 69th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Grenoble Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Rachid Yazami
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- physicistengineer
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Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan scientist, engineer, and inventor. He is best known for his critical role in the development of the graphite anode (negative pole) for lithium-ion batteries and his research on fluoride ion batteries.
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Loïk Le Floch-Prigent
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- businesspersonessayistengineer
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Loik Le Floch-Prigent is a French engineer and manager. He was CEO of Elf Aquitaine between July 1989 and 1993, then president of SNCF from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the Elf affair. He is the nephew of the poet Maodez Glanndour.
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Éric Piolle
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- engineerpolitician
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Éric Piolle is a French politician of Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) who has been serving as mayor of Grenoble since 2014.. He was Regional Councillor of Rhône-Alpes from March 2010 to April 2014.
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Charles Elachi
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- engineerastronomer
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Charles Elachi is a Lebanese-American professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2001 to 2016 he was the 8th director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech.
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Jean-Jacques Favier
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- astronautphysicistengineer
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Jean-Jacques Favier was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier was deputy director for space technology and deputy director for advanced concepts and strategy at CNES, director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and research program director at the International Space University.
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Alain Colmerauer
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- engineeruniversity teachercomputer scientist
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Alain Colmerauer was a French computer scientist. He was a professor at Aix-Marseille University, and the creator of the logic programming language Prolog.
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Vincent Blondel
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- politicianmathematicianrector of UCLouvainengineer
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Vincent Daniel Blondel is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and former 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.
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Reinhard Brandl
- Enrolled in Grenoble Institute of Technology
- In 2007 studied industrial engineering and management
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- politician
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Dr. Reinhard Brandl is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009, representing Ingolstadt.
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Abdelghani Bousta
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- engineerpoliticianautomatician
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Abdelghani Bousta, was a Moroccan politician who opposed the monarchical power of his country. Like many of his fellow fighters at the time, his democratic views in favour of the separation of powers and taking absolute power away from King Hassan II forced him into exile for over twenty years.
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Ke Wu
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- engineeruniversity teacher
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Ke Wu is a professor and researcher in electrical engineering. He currently works at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, and is a Tier-I Canada Research Chair in radio-frequency (RF) and millimetre-wave engineering.
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Karim Zaghib
- Enrolled in Grenoble Institute of Technology
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- researcher
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Karim Zaghib FRSC FCAE is an Algerian-Canadian electrochemist and materials scientist known for his contributions to the field of energy storage and conversion. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. As former director of research at Hydro-Québec, he helped to make it the world’s first company to use lithium iron phosphate in cathodes, and to develop natural graphite and nanotitanate anodes.
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Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
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- university teachermanagement engineeracademicscientist
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Marie-Elisabeth Lucienne Paté-Cornell,, is a Stanford University Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and was the Founding Chair of the Department.
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Romeo Ortega
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- computer scientist
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Romeo Ortega, born in Mexico, is a Mexican-French control scientist and distinguished professor. He is head of the Adaptive and Nonlinear Control Systems Lab in St. Petersburg, Russia and full-professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology in Mexico City.
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Frédéric Barlat
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- university teachermetallurgistphysicistscientist
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Professor Frédéric Barlat is a French/American scientist in the field of plasticity, damage and metal forming. He is currently the director of A&S Center at Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Professor Barlat's contribution in the field of plasticity, particularly his models on anisotropic plasticity of metallic materials, has been recognized worldwide.
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Jean-Charles Mattei
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- short-track speed skater
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Jean Charles Mattei is a French short-track speed-skater.
