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Claude GUÉGUENGET (Groupe des
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Position
on the date of
his appointment to the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies,
27 September 2004 Claude Guéguen,
born in 1941 in Rennes, is an engineering graduate from École Nationale
Supérieure des Télécommunications (1965), France's national
telecommunications school, and a Doctor in Engineering from Paul Sabatier University
in Toulouse (1971). In 1986 he was granted a research authorisation.
After
starting out in 1966 as a research engineer, he became a lecturer at École
Nationale Supérieure d'Aéronautique, France's national aerospace
school. In 1970, he joined Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications
(ENST, France's national telecommunications school). That same year he set up
the first research laboratory. He headed the Systems and Communication department
from 1975 to 1986. In 1977 he was a appointed Professor, in 1986 Science Director
and in 1988 Deputy Managing Director. He is a visiting professor at several major
research centres in the United States.
His work, for which he
was made an IEEE Fellow in 1986, focuses on the following areas: automation, signal
processing and modelling, rapid adaptive algorithms, voice, image, digital-communication
and biomedical-signal applications, etc.
During this period he
set up URA 820, a CNRS associate laboratory, which he headed from 1980 to 1991.
>From 1983 to 1986, he was a member of the National Committee of the CNRS.
In 1988 he created CNRS Research Group GDR 134 "Signal and Image Processing",
federating 250 researchers and 40 laboratories at national level, which he headed
until 1992. He also sits on the management committees and takes part in the scientific
programmes and boards of several major ICT research centres (academic and industrial).
In 1991, with the support of ENST and EPFL (the Swiss polytechnic
in Lausanne), he created Institut Eurécom in Sophia-Antipolis, for which
he received the IEEE Major Educational Innovation Award in 1994. He headed the
institute until 1998.
In 1998, he was
appointed Science Director of Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications
(a group of telecommunications schools). In this capacity he is responsible for
boosting research as part of the business plan for the period from 2001 to 2005.
In 1999, DATAR (the government delegation for country planning and regional programmes)
and the Ministries of Industry and National Education commissioned him to study
and set up Institut des Applications Avancées de l'Internet (IAAI - institute
for advanced internet applications) in Marseilles.
In 1999, the Ministry of Research requested him to oversee the establishment of
the National Technological Research Centre for Telecoms, Internet and Practices
in Sophia Antipolis.
He is an incumbent or
former member of: Conseil d'Evaluation (Evaluation Board) (1995-1998) and subsequently
the Board of Directors of INRIA (since 1999); Comité d'Orientation (Steering
Committee) of the RNRT (National Telecommunications Research Network); Conseil
Scientifique (Scientific Board of the ICT mission to the Prime Minister (since
1999); IST National Technical Group (5th EU RDFP); Comité de Coordination
des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (Coordination
Committee for Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies) at the
Ministry of Research (since 1999). He is moreover Chairman of the Editorial Committee
of the magazine Annales des Télécommunications (since 1998). He
has been a member of the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies
to the Prime Minister since 11 April 2001. | | |
