Gérard Berry - Career#

Positions#

• Since 09/2012 Professor at Collège de France, Chair Algorithmes, Machines et Langages (Algorithms, Machines, and Languages)
• 2009-2012 Director of Research at INRIA Sophia Antipolis
• 2009-2010 Professor at Collège de France, Chaire informatique et sciences numériques 2009/2010
• Course: Penser, modéliser et maîtriser le calcul (Thinking about, modeling, and mastering computation)
• 2008 Professor at Collège de France, Chaire d'Innovation technologique 2007/2008
• Course: Pourquoi et comment le monde devient numérique (Why and How the World Becomes Digital)
• 2001-2009 Chief Scientist of Esterel Technologies
• 1990-2001 Regular consultant at Digital Equipment, Schneider Electric, Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems, and Intel
• 1977-2001 Director of Research at Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis site. Co-head of a joint project with INRIA Sophia Antipolis
• 1979 Docteur d’Etat in Mathematics at Université Paris VII, option Computer Science
• 1970-1977 Researcher at Ecole des Mines de Paris, Paris site
• 1970 Entered Corps National des Ingénieurs des Mines
• 1967 Entered Ecole Polytechnique

Additional responsibilities#

• since 2014 Member of the board of IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique / musique)
• since 2014 President of the Council of Education and Research of Ecole Polytechnique
• since 2012 President of the Scientific Council of ESIEE
• since 2011 Member of the Scientific Council of IRCAM (Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique / musique)
• 2010-2013 Member of the Scientific Council of UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
• since 2010 Member of the board (conseil d’administration) of ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
• 2010 President of the Scientific Council of the Computer Science Department at Ecole Normale Supérieure
• 2005-2009 Delegate of the Inter-Section of Applications at Académie des sciences

Awards#

• 2014 Médaille d'or du CNRS
• 2012 Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
• 2008 Chevalier de l'Ordre du mérite
• 2005 Great Prize of the EADS Foundation for applications of sciences to industry
• 2005 Member, Académie des technologies
• 2002 Member, Académie des sciences
• 2001 Nominee, World Technology Awards
• 1999 Science and Defense award
• 1994 Chevalier de l'Ordre des palmes académiques
• 1993 Member, Academia Europaea
• 1990 Monpetit Prize of Académie des sciences
• 1979 Bronze medal of C.N.R.S.

Invited Talks#

• Invited speaker for Seven Keys to the Digital Future, set of 8 lectures of Collège de France in English at Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, October 2010
• Invited speaker in 39 international conferences or workshops:
  • ICDCIT'2014 (Bhubaneshwar)
  • WSS'2013 (Montreal)
  • EMSOFT 2011 (Taipei)
  • DCM 2010 (Edinburgh)
  • LOLA 2010 (Edinburgh)
  • Bits&Chips 2007 (Eindhoven)
  • FMICS 2007 (Berlin)
  • Ada Europe 2007 (Geneva)
  • FDL 2006 (Darmstadt)
  • CSR 2006 (St Petersburg)
  • TACAS'2005 (Edinburgh)
  • VLSI'2004 (Mumbai)
  • ICCAD'2003 (San Jose)
  • HLDVT'2002 (Cannes)
  • SAME'2001 (Sophia Antipolis)
  • CHARME'2001 (Edinburgh)
  • FEMSYS'2001 (Munich)
  • FST&TCS'2000 (New Delhi)
  • ASE'2000 (Grenoble)
  • CHARME'99 (Bad Herrenalb)
  • CONCUR'98 (Nice)
  • POPL'98 (San Diego)
  • DSL'97 (Santa Barbara)
  • CAV'97 (Haifa)
  • CHDL'97 (Toledo)
  • TACAS'97 (Twente)
  • AMAST'96 (Munich)
  • ICSC'95 (Bangkok)
  • IWLS'95 (Lake Tahoe)
  • MFPS'94 (Manhattan, Kansas)
  • LICS'94 (Paris)
  • POPL'94 (Portland)
  • FSTTCS'93 (Bombay)
  • REX'93 (Amsterdam)
  • CONPAR'92 (Lyon)
  • ESEC'91 (Milano)
  • TAPSOFT'90 (Brighton)
  • IFIP'89 (San Francisco)
  • STACS'86 (Paris)
• Invited speaker for the Tata Consultancy Services Distinguished Lecture, 2006 (Pune, India)
• Keynote speaker for the IBM Programming Languages Day, 2006 (Yorktownheigths, USA)
• Invited speaker at the Kieburtz Symposium, 2003 (OGI Portland, USA)
• G. Berry. Draft book, current version 3.0, Dec. 16th, 2002
• Invited speaker at the first Milner Lecture, Edinburgh University, 1996
• Invited speaker at several summer schools: Marktoberdorf 1992 and 2008, Laser 2007, ArtistDesign 2008, and several schools in India, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

PhD supervision and examination#

• Advisor of 16 PhD theses
• President of the Jury of 8 PhD of Habilitation theses
• Reviewer of 12 Habilitation theses and of 36 PhD theses, including 4 foreign theses
• Jury member of 37 other PhD theses, including 4 foreign theses