Isabelle Bloch
Also known as Isabelle Bloch-Boulanger
Isabelle Bloch is a professor at Sorbonne University, where her AI work combines symbolic AI with machine learning for image understanding. She earned a Ph.D. at Télécom Paris in 1990 and taught there as a professor from 1991 to 2020. Her early work modeled spatial relations between structures with fuzzy sets and mathematical morphology. She won the Blondel Medal in 2008, joined the EurAI Fellows in 2020, and became a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2021. From 2020 to 2024 she held the artificial intelligence chair at Sorbonne University.
Timeline
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1986–1990
A Ph.D. at Télécom Paris
She graduates from Mines ParisTech in 1986 and completes a Ph.D. at Télécom Paris in 1990.
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1991–2020
Professor at Télécom Paris
She joins Télécom Paris as a professor and researcher in 1991 and works there until 2020. Her early AI work models spatial relations between structures with fuzzy sets and mathematical morphology.
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2008
The Blondel Medal
She receives the Blondel Medal in 2008, a prize for the exceptional work of a young scientist.
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2020–2024
Artificial intelligence chair at Sorbonne
From 2020 to 2024, she holds the artificial intelligence chair at Sorbonne University.
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October 2020
Fellow of EurAI
EurAI promotes her to Fellow in October 2020 for her research in artificial intelligence. At the time, her work combines symbolic AI and machine learning, with applications in image understanding.
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2021
Knight of the Legion of Honour
She is named a knight of the Legion of Honour in 2021.
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2023
Académie des sciences medal
The Académie des sciences gives her its medal for mechanical and computing sciences in 2023.
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As of October 2026
Professor at LIP6
She is a professor at Sorbonne University, in the LIP6 laboratory.
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