13 Notable alumni of Grenoble Institute of Technology
Updated: May 29, 2026 EliteDegrees
Grenoble Institute of Technology is ranked #923 in the world and #32 in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Grenoble Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Grenoble Institute of Technology won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Abdelghani Bousta
1949-1998 (aged 49)
automatician
engineer
politician
Abdelghani Bousta, was a Moroccan politician who opposed the monarchical power of his country. Like many of his fellow fighters at the time, his democratic views in favour of the separation of powers and taking absolute power away from King Hassan II forced him into exile for more than 20 years.
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2. Ke Wu
1962-. (aged 64)
engineer
university teacher
Ke Wu is a professor and researcher in electrical engineering. He currently works at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, and is a Tier-I Canada Research Chair in radio-frequency (RF) and millimetre-wave engineering.
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3. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell
1948-. (aged 78)
academic
scientist
university teacher
management engineer
Marie-Elisabeth Lucienne Paté-Cornell,, is a Stanford University Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering and was the Founding Chair of the Department.
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4. Romeo Ortega
1954-. (aged 72)
computer scientist
Romeo Ortega, born in Mexico, is a Mexican-French control scientist and distinguished professor. He is head of the Adaptive and Nonlinear Control Systems Lab in St. Petersburg, Russia, and full professor at the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology in Mexico City.
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5. Frédéric Barlat
1957-. (aged 69)
metallurgist
physicist
scientist
university teacher
Professor Frédéric Barlat is a French/American scientist in the field of plasticity, damage and metal forming. He is currently the director of A&S Center at Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Professor Barlat's contribution in the field of plasticity, particularly his models on anisotropic plasticity of metallic materials, has been recognized...
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6. Jean-Charles Mattei
1982-. (aged 44)
short-track speed skater
Jean Charles Mattei is a French short-track speed-skater.
7. Charles Elachi
1947-. (aged 79)
engineer
astronomer
Charles Elachi is a Lebanese-American professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). From 2001 to 2016 he was the 8th director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech.
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8. Jean-Jacques Favier
1949-2023 (aged 74)
engineer
astronaut
physicist
Jean-Jacques Favier was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier was deputy director for space technology and deputy director for advanced concepts and strategy at CNES,...
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9. Alain Colmerauer
1941-2017 (aged 76)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
Alain Colmerauer was a French computer scientist. He was a professor at Aix-Marseille University, and the creator of the logic programming language Prolog.
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10. Karim Zaghib
1963-. (aged 63)
researcher
Karim Zaghib OC FRSC FCAE is an Algerian-Canadian electrochemist and materials scientist known for his contributions to the field of energy storage and conversion. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. As former director of research at Hydro-Québec, he helped to make it the world’s first company to use lithium iron phosphate in cathodes, and...
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11. Rachid Yazami
1953-. (aged 73)
physicist
engineer
Rachid Yazami is a Moroccan scientist, engineer, and inventor. He is best known for his critical role in the development of the graphite anode (negative pole) for lithium-ion batteries and his research on fluoride ion batteries.
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12. Loïk Le Floch-Prigent
1943-2025 (aged 82)
essayist
engineer
businessperson
Loïk Gérard Henri Marie Joseph Le Floch-Prigent was a French engineer and businessman. He was CEO of Elf Aquitaine between July 1989 and 1993, then president of SNCF from December 1995 to July 1996, when he was indicted in connection with the Elf affair. He is particularly known in the "Françafrique" circles.
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13. Vincent Blondel
1965-. (aged 61)
rector of UCLouvain
engineer
politician
mathematician
Vincent Daniel Blondel is a Belgian professor of applied mathematics and former rector of the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Blondel's research lies in the area of mathematical control theory and theoretical computer science. He is mostly known for his contributions in computational complexity in control, multi-agent coordination and complex...
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