Marie-Odile Cordier
Marie-Odile Cordier is retired, and her research focused on diagnosis, reasoning, and modeling of discrete event systems. Studying computer science at Paris-Sud, she earned a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1979 with a thesis on commanding a robot in natural language. In 1986, a doctorat d'état under Daniel Kayser produced a thesis on the SHERLOCK inference engine. After an associate professorship at Paris-Sud, she moved to the University of Rennes as a full professor in 1988. The European Association for Artificial Intelligence named her a fellow in 2001, and the DX workshop on principles of diagnosis gave her its lifetime achievement award in 2015.
- Works
- 277
- Citations
- 2,240
- h-index
- 26
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1979
A thesis on robot commands
At Paris-Sud, she studies computer science and earns a doctorat de troisième cycle in 1979, with a thesis on commanding a robot in natural language.
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1986
A thesis on the SHERLOCK engine
In 1986, she earns a doctorat d'état under Daniel Kayser, and her thesis concerns the SHERLOCK inference engine.
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1988
A full professorship in Rennes
After an associate professorship at Paris-Sud, she moves to the University of Rennes as a full professor in 1988.
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2001
A EurAI fellowship
The European Association for Artificial Intelligence names her one of its fellows in 2001.
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2008
A paper at ECAI 2008
Her paper Deriving explanations from causal information, written with Yves Moinard, appears at ECAI 2008, the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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2015
A DX lifetime achievement award
The DX workshop on principles of diagnosis gives her its lifetime achievement award in 2015.
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As of October 2026
Retired from Rennes 1
Retirement follows her professorship at the University of Rennes 1, where she heads the DREAM team on diagnosis, reasoning, and modeling of discrete event systems.
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