Vincent Blondel#
| Membership Number: | 4846 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://perso.uclouvain.be/vincent.blondel |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2019 President (Rector) Université Catholique de Louvain, UCL, Belgium
- 2013 - 2014 Dean, Louvain School of Engineering, UCL
- 2012 - 2013 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- 2010 - 2011 Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, MIT
- 2008 - present Research Associate, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Cambridge, USA
- 2005 - 2006 Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, MIT
- 2003 - 2010 Department Head, Department of Mathematical Engineering, UCL
- 2000 - present Professor of Applied Mathematics, UCL
- 1995 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Institute of Mathematics, Université de Liège, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Big data analytics
- Mathematical engineering
- Network science
- Applied mathematics in information processing, social media, communication
- Complex networks
- Systems and control
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Science
- 2014 Fellow of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
- 2012 Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- 2006 IEEE Antonio Ruberti Prize
- 2005 Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Foundation, US Department of State, USA
- 2003 SIAM triennal prize in Systems and Control
- 2002 Prize of Mathematics awarded by the Belgian Royal Academy of Sciences
