1. Vincent Daniel Blondel was born on 28 April 1965 and is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and former rector of the University of Louvain and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
11 Facts About Vincent Blondel
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Vincent Blondel is mostly known for his contributions in computational complexity in control, multi-agent coordination and complex networks.
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Vincent Blondel studied philosophy, mathematics, engineering and computer science in Louvain-la-Neuve, Grenoble, London and Oxford.
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Vincent Blondel completed a master thesis in engineering at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, he holds a MSc in mathematics from Imperial College of Science and Technology and a degree in philosophy, a master's degree in engineering and a PhD in applied mathematics from Universite catholique de Louvain.
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Vincent Blondel was a research visitor with the Australian National University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Santa Fe Institute, the Mittag-Leffler Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Harvard University.
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Vincent Blondel was a visiting professor of the Ecole Nationale Superieure in Lyon in 1998 and at the Universite Paris VII - Diderot in 1999,2000 and 2002.
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Vincent Blondel is a former associate editor of the European Journal of Control and of Systems and Control Letters.
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Vincent Blondel is an editor of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems Vincent Blondel has published about 100 journal articles and 6 books.
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At UCLouvain, Vincent Blondel has founded the Group on Large Graphs and Networks.
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Vincent Blondel has supervised 20 doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and 15 visiting professors.
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In 2013, Vincent Blondel has become the dean of the Louvain School of Engineering.