31 Notable alumni of
TELECOM ParisTech
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TELECOM ParisTech is 1295th in the world, 453rd in Europe, and 39th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from TELECOM ParisTech sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Patrick Drahi
- Occupations
- entrepreneur
- Biography
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Patrick Drahi is a French–Israeli billionaire magnate and investor with interests in media and telecoms. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of the European-based telecom group Altice, and the majority owner of the international auction house Sotheby's. He lives in Switzerland.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1984-1986 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- business executiveteacherlecturerconsultantengineer
- Biography
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Jean-Marc Jancovici is a French engineering consultant, energy and climate expert, professor, conference speaker, writer, and independent columnist. He is co-founder and associate at the Carbone 4 consultancy firm, and the founding president of the think-tank The Shift Project.
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Jean-Bernard Lévy
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Jean-Bernard Lévy is a French businessman, and was the CEO and chairman of EDF.
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Michel Devoret
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- In 1975 graduated with engineer
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Michel Henri Devoret is a French-American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the fluxonium.
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Mohamed Benchaâboun
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- telecommunications engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Mohamed Benchaaboun is a Moroccan banker, politician and diplomat. He is currently the chairman of board of directors of Maroc Telecom.
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet
- Occupations
- professornuclear physicistessayistengineerphysicist
- Biography
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.
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Léon Charles Thévenin
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.
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Mohand Laenser
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
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Mohand Laenser is a Moroccan politician and current president of the Popular Movement party and former Minister of the Interior. He was born in Imouzzer Marmoucha.
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Laure de La Raudière
- Occupations
- business executiveengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Laure de La Raudière is a French politician of Agir who has been serving chair of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution (ARCEP) since 2021. From 2007 until 2021, she was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Eure-et-Loir department.
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Sam Hocevar
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 2003-2006 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- computer scientistprogrammerengineer
- Biography
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Samuel Hocevar is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security.
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Stéphane Mallat
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stéphane Georges Mallat is a French applied mathematician, concurrently appointed as Professor at Collège de France and École normale supérieure. He made fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has additionally done work in applied mathematics, signal processing, music synthesis and image segmentation.
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Tariq Krim
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- In 1996 studied communication studies
- Occupations
- computer scientistbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Tariq Krim is a French entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and the founder of Jolicloud, a personal cloud content computing platform and Joli OS, a free operating system based on the Jolicloud platform. In 2008, he was the first French national named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2011.
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Rose Dieng Kuntz
- Occupations
- computer scientistartificial intelligence researcher
- Biography
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Rose Dieng-Kuntz was a Senegalese computer scientist specialising in artificial intelligence. She was the first African woman to enroll in the École polytechnique.
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David Naccache
- Occupations
- university teacherexpert witnessmathematicianconsultantengineer
- Biography
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David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École normale supérieure and a member of its Computer Laboratory. He was previously a professor at Panthéon-Assas University.
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Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
- Born in
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Senegal - Occupations
- politicianminister
- Biography
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Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye is a Senegalese politician. In 2012, she was appointed Minister of Livestock and Animal Production in the government of Prime Minister Abdou Mbaye and from 2014 under the government of Prime Minister Mahammad Boun Abdallah Dionne until 5 April 2019, when she was named Minister of Fishery and Maritime Economy Ministre des Pêches et de l’Economie maritime. She also serves as mayor of Louga, and is currently chair of the women's movement of the Socialist Party of Senegal. Previously, Ndiaye served as Minister of Women, Children and the Family, as well as Minister of Social Development and National Solidarity under the presidency of Abdou Diouf.
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Édouard Estaunié
- Occupations
- writerengineer
- Biography
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Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer, critic, and homme de lettres as well as a novelist.
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Anne Bouverot
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- engineerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Anne Bouverot is a French business executive, engineer, AI researcher, and a philanthropist.
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Philippe Kruchten
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 74)
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1986-1986 graduated with doctorate in information systems studies
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Philippe Kruchten is a Canadian software engineer, and Professor of Software Engineering at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, known as Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software, and developer of the 4+1 Architectural View Model.
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Pascale Sourisse
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
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Pascale Sourisse is a French businesswoman.
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Julia Kempe
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 53)
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1997-2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistresearcherphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the New York University Center for Data Science and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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Alain Bravo
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
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Alain Bravo is a French electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His accomplishments include founding one of France's leading mobile phone services, Société française de radiotéléphonie (SFR), and he is currently the president of Abhexis and the managing director of Supélec, one of France's top five engineering schools.
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Hakim Hajoui
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Hakim Hajoui is a Moroccan diplomat. He was appointed ambassador of Morocco to the United Kingdom in 2020.
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Éric Moulines
- Occupations
- scientistphysicistuniversity teachermathematicianresearcher
- Biography
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Éric Moulines is a French researcher in statistical learning and signal processing. He received the silver medal from the CNRS in 2010, the France Télécom prize awarded in collaboration with the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was appointed a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing in 2012 and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016. He is General Engineer of the Corps des Mines (X81).
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Francisco Javier Mendieta
- Occupations
- university teachergeneral director
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez is a Mexican telecommunications engineer and academic who chaired the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (Cicese) and served, by presidential appointment, as the founding director-general of the Mexican Space Agency from 2011 to 2019.
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Roland Glowinski
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianresearch associate
- Biography
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Roland Glowinski was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held an endowed chair at the University of Houston from 1985. Glowinski wrote many books on the subject of mathematics. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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Alain Glavieux
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
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Alain Glavieux was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
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Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
- Occupations
- physicistcosmologist
- Biography
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Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,, is a French cosmologist. During her career as a researcher in particle physics, she has taken part in several large-scale experiments. Her work has been recognized several times including the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, the appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor and her election to the French Academy of Sciences.
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Bernard Marti
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- Studied in 1968
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Bernard Marti is a Swiss orienteering competitor. He received a silver medal in the relay event at the 1972 World Orienteering Championships in Jičín, together with Dieter Hulliger, Dieter Wolf and Karl John.
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Philippe Dupuis
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Philippe Dupuis was a French post-war telecommunications engineer, polytechnician, and a radiocommunications expert born in Saint Romain de Colbosc, Normandy, France. He co-invented Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). He was on the ETSI Technical Committee and also served as the president of the GSM group.
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Yves Poilane
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1982-1984 graduated with Master of Science in European Telecommunications Standards Institute
- Occupations
- director general
- Biography
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Yves Poilane, born 11 December 1959 in Lyon, is a former director of Télécom Paris and former director of the technological department of the IONIS Education Group.
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Magali Vaissière
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Magali Vaissière was Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency, from 2008 until 2020. She was responsible for the agency's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications System (ARTES).
