Meet the Digiteo Chairs
Digiteo has launched a programme of research chairs, the aim of which is to encourage eminent researchers and promising young researchers to create their own research team in France with colleagues from the French Digiteo cluster.
The two current holders of Digiteo chairs are Peter Clote and Alfred Hero.
Peter Clote is a Professor at Boston College, in the Biology Department with a continuing courtesy appointment in Computer Science.
Peter Clote works with the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Polytechnique and the Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique at the Université Paris-Sud 11.
"Peter Clote's arrival is a great opportunity to give even more dynamism to bioinformatics inside Digiteo, especially between LIX and LRI, and beyond because several laboratories of biology in Orsay-Gif campus are interested in this Chair and its fallout" says Alain Denise, Professor at LRI.
According to Jean-Marc Steyaert, Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Ecole Polytechnique, this Chair is the logical consequence of a long lasting collaboration with Peter Clote. As he says, "Having already worked together before, it's easy to continue. It also allows the growth of our connexions with Boston College and the MIT, which are major institutes".
Alfred Hero is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and, by courtesy, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also affiliated with the UM Bioinformatics Program and the UM Graduate Program in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (AIM).
He works with two Digiteo research teams: Département Signaux et Systèmes Electroniques of Supélec, and the Signals division of the Laboratoires de Signaux et Systèmes, (laboratory led by the CNRS, Supélec and the Université Paris-Sud 11).
By appointing Pierre Duhamel, Research Director at the CNRS and L2S, "all teams benefit from the presence of Alfred Hero, and he is also able to expand his research interests into the field of telecommunications".
His skills in statistics and information processing have previously been deployed in many applications such as telecommunications and biological data analysis. These are the two pillars of his chair of excellence.
For Gilles Fleury, Head of the Département Signaux et Systèmes Electroniques at Supélec, "The Department has developed research links with Alfred Hero since 2001. His arrival in the department has greatly strengthened projects that have been in the pipeline and in development for many years".
