Isabelle Bloch

Isabelle Bloch is a French computer scientist working in artificial intelligence, image understanding, explainable artificial intelligence, and spatial reasoning. She is a professor in LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Sorbonne University, where she holds the Artificial Intelligence Chair.

Education and career

Bloch is a 1986 graduate of Mines ParisTech. After a 1987 master's degree from Paris-East Créteil University, she completed a Ph.D. from Télécom Paris in 1990, and continued at Télécom Paris as a professor and researcher beginning in 1991.
In 1995 she earned a habilitation through Paris Descartes University. She moved to her present position at Sorbonne University in 2020.

Recognition

Bloch was the 2008 recipient of the of the French . She is a fellow of the European Association for [Artificial Intelligence].
She was named a knight in the Legion of Honour in 2021.