Hélène Fargier
Also known as Helene Fargier
Hélène Fargier is a French computer scientist who models decision making under uncertainty as constraint satisfaction. She earned an engineering degree in control theory at Compiègne in 1988 and a doctorate at Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier University in 1994. She joined the CNRS as a researcher in 1996 and was named a director of research in 2008. The European Association for Artificial Intelligence elected her a Fellow in 2014. As of October 2026, she is a senior CNRS researcher at IRIT.
- Now at
- CNRS and Université Toulouse Capitole
- Works
- 288
- Citations
- 4,654
- h-index
- 30
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1988
Control theory at Compiègne
She completes an engineering degree and a diplôme d'études approfondies in control theory at the University of Technology of Compiègne in 1988.
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1994
A doctorate in Toulouse
After working as a research engineer at Alcatel, she returns to graduate study and completes her doctorate at Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier University in 1994.
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1996
Joining the CNRS
She becomes a researcher for the CNRS in 1996.
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2006–2008
Director of research at CNRS
She obtains a habilitation at Paul Sabatier University in 2006 and is named a director of research in 2008.
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2014
Elected a EurAI Fellow
She is elected a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2014.
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2026
Semiring-based and valued CSPs revisited
With Stefano Bistarelli, Francesca Rossi and Thomas Schiex, she writes this paper, which appears in Constraints in 2026.
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As of October 2026
Senior CNRS researcher at IRIT
She is a French computer scientist and a senior CNRS researcher at IRIT, working in the ADRIA team and on the ANITI Heroic project. Her research models decision making under uncertainty as constraint satisfaction. She is also listed as the director of 12 theses on theses.fr.
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