31 Notable alumni of
TELECOM ParisTech
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TELECOM ParisTech is 1367th in the world, 468th in Europe, and 41st 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 an 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. A former French citizen, he lives in Switzerland.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1984-1986 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- university teacherbusiness executiveengineerconsultantlecturer
- 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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Boualem Sansal
- Occupations
- officialbusiness executivewriterengineerteacher
- Biography
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Boualem Sansal is an Algerian author. In 2012, he was named winner of the Prix du roman arabe, but the prize money was withdrawn due to Sansal's visit to Israel to speak at the Jerusalem Writers Festival.
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Jean-Bernard Lévy
- Occupations
- engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jean-Bernard Lévy is a French businessman, and the CEO and chairman of EDF.
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Mohamed Benchaâboun
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- Studied in 1984
- Occupations
- politiciantelecommunications engineer
- Biography
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Mohamed Benchaaboun is a Moroccan banker, politician and diplomat. He has been Morocco's ambassador to France from 7 January 2022 until his termination in 19 January 2023. He was Minister of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform of Morocco from 2018 to 2021.
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Louis Leprince-Ringuet
- Occupations
- professorhistorianphysicistengineeressayist
- 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
- politicianengineer
- Biography
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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
- politicianengineerbusiness executive
- 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 scientistengineerprogrammer
- 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
- university teachermathematician
- 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 scientistentrepreneurbusinessperson
- 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
- artificial intelligence researchercomputer scientist
- Biography
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Rose Dieng-Kuntz was a Senegalese computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. She was the first African woman to enroll in the École polytechnique.
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David Naccache
- Occupations
- inventorengineerconsultantmathematicianexpert witness
- 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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Édouard Estaunié
- Occupations
- engineerwriter
- 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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Philippe Kruchten
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1986-1986 graduated with doctorate in geographic information system
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
- 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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Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
- Born in
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Senegal - Occupations
- politician
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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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Pascale Sourisse
- Occupations
- engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Pascale Sourisse is a French businesswoman.
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Alain Bravo
- Occupations
- engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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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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Julia Kempe
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Enrolled in TELECOM ParisTech
- 1997-2001 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in computer science
- Occupations
- computer scientistphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the Center for Data Science at NYU and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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Michel Devoret
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- researcherphysicist
- Biography
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Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macroscopic quantum tunneling, and the single-electron pump as well as in groundbreaking contributions to initiating the fields of circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantronics.
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Anne Bouverot
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- business executiveengineer
- Biography
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Anne Bouverot is a French business executive and a philanthropist.
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Francisco Javier Mendieta
- Occupations
- general directoruniversity teacher
- 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 serves, by presidential appointment, as the founding director-general of the Mexican Space Agency.
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Roland Glowinski
- Occupations
- university teacherresearch associatemathematician
- 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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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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Alain Glavieux
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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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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Éric Moulines
- Occupations
- university teacherresearch fellowphysiciststatisticianmathematician
- 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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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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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).
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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 the 11th of December 1959 in Lyon, is a former Director of Télécom Paris and current Director of the technological department of the IONIS Education Group.
