Philippe Baptiste

Philippe Baptiste (born March 28, 1972) is a French engineer, academic and researcher. Baptiste is most well known as the president of the National Centre for Space Studies CNES in addition to his several books and scientific publications and communications in the field of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operational research and artificial intelligence. Early life and education Baptiste was born on March 28, 1972, in France. Baptise holds a PHD in computer science from the University of Technology of Compiègne additionally he is a civil engineering graduate from the Ecole des Mines engineering school in Nancy. Baptise also holds a Msc from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and holds a DEA postgraduate diploma from Sorbonne University and is a research director. Baptiste specialises in operational research and artificial intelligence(AI), combinatorial optimisation, and algorithms. Career In 1999 during his academic career, Baptiste was a researcher at the French National scientific research centre (CNRS), in addition to IBM's Watson Research Center during 2000 to 2001. Furthermore, for more than ten years during 2001 to 2012 Baptiste was a lecturer at France's Ecole Polytechnique engineering school. During this time he published several books and around 150 scientific papers, and became the head of Ecole Polytechnique engineering school's information technology laboratory and is credited with creating the Institute of Information Sciences and Interactions prior to being appointed Associate Director General in 2014 of CNRS.