31 Notable alumni of TELECOM ParisTech
Updated: June 06, 2026 EliteDegrees
TELECOM ParisTech is 1215st in the world, 1st in North America, and 46st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 31 notable alumni from TELECOM ParisTech sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with TELECOM ParisTech won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille
1970-. (aged 56)
physicist
cosmologist
Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,, is a French cosmologist. During her career as a researcher in particle physics, she has taken part in several large-scale experiments. Her work has been recognized several times including the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize, the appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor and her election to the French Academy of Sciences.
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2. Bernard Marti
1943-. (aged 83)
engineer
Bernard Marti is a Swiss orienteering competitor. He received a silver medal in the relay event at the 1972 World Orienteering Championships in Jičín, together with Dieter Hulliger, Dieter Wolf and Karl John.
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3. Philippe Dupuis
1931-2019 (aged 88)
electrical engineer
Philippe Dupuis was a French post-war telecommunications engineer, polytechnician, and a radiocommunications expert born in Saint Romain de Colbosc, Normandy, France. He co-invented Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). He was on the ETSI Technical Committee and also served as the president of the GSM group.
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4. Yves Poilane
1959-. (aged 67)
director general
Yves Poilane, born 11 December 1959 in Lyon, is a former director of Télécom Paris and former director of the technological department of the IONIS Education Group.
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5. Magali Vaissière
1957-. (aged 69)
engineer
Magali Vaissière was Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency, from 2008 until 2020. She was responsible for the agency's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications System (ARTES).
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6. Francisco Javier Mendieta
1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher
general director
Francisco Javier Mendieta Jiménez is a Mexican telecommunications engineer and academic who chaired the Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (Cicese) and served, by presidential appointment, as the founding director-general of the Mexican Space Agency from 2011 to 2019.
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7. Roland Glowinski
1937-2022 (aged 85)
university teacher
mathematician
research associate
Roland Glowinski was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held an endowed chair at the University of Houston from 1985. Glowinski...
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8. Alain Glavieux
1949-2004 (aged 55)
computer scientist
engineer
Alain Glavieux was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
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9. Rose Dieng Kuntz
1956-2008 (aged 52)
computer scientist
artificial intelligence researcher
Rose Dieng-Kuntz was a Senegalese computer scientist specialising in artificial intelligence. She was the first African woman to enroll in the École polytechnique.
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10. David Naccache
1967-. (aged 59)
university teacher
expert witness
mathematician
consultant
engineer
David Naccache is a cryptographer, currently a professor at the École normale supérieure and a member of its Computer Laboratory. He was previously a professor at Panthéon-Assas University.
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11. Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye
politician
minister
Aminata Mbengue Ndiaye is a Senegalese politician. In 2012, she was appointed Minister of Livestock and Animal Production in the government of Prime Minister Abdou Mbaye and from 2014 under the government of Prime Minister Mahammad Boun Abdallah Dionne until 5 April 2019, when she was named Minister of Fishery and Maritime Economy Ministre des Pêches et de l’Economie maritime....
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12. Édouard Estaunié
1862-1942 (aged 80)
writer
engineer
Édouard Estaunié was a French novelist. Estaunié trained as a scientist and engineer, working at the Post and Telegraph service and training further in Holland, before turning to the novel in 1891. In 1904, he devised the word "telecommunication" in his Traité pratique de télécommunication électrique. He was elected to the Académie française in 1923. He was also a reviewer,...
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13. Anne Bouverot
1966-. (aged 60)
engineer
business executive
Anne Bouverot is a French business executive, engineer, AI researcher, and a philanthropist.
14. Pascale Sourisse
1962-. (aged 64)
businessperson
engineer
Pascale Sourisse is a French businesswoman.
15. Alain Bravo
1945-. (aged 81)
businessperson
engineer
Alain Bravo is a French electrical engineer and entrepreneur. His accomplishments include founding one of France's leading mobile phone services, Société française de radiotéléphonie (SFR), and he is currently the president of Abhexis and the managing director of Supélec, one of France's top five engineering schools.
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16. Hakim Hajoui
1983-. (aged 43)
diplomat
Hakim Hajoui is a Moroccan diplomat. He was appointed ambassador of Morocco to the United Kingdom in 2020.
17. Éric Moulines
1963-. (aged 63)
scientist
physicist
university teacher
mathematician
researcher
Éric Moulines is a French researcher in statistical learning and signal processing. He received the silver medal from the CNRS in 2010, the France Télécom prize awarded in collaboration with the French Academy of Sciences in 2011. He was appointed a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing in 2012 and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016....
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18. Laure de La Raudière
1965-. (aged 61)
business executive
engineer
politician
Laure de La Raudière is a French politician of Agir who has been serving chair of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution (ARCEP) since 2021. From 2007 until 2021, she was a member of the National Assembly of France, representing the Eure-et-Loir department.
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19. Sam Hocevar
1978-. (aged 48)
computer scientist
programmer
engineer
Samuel Hocevar is a French software and video game developer. He was the project leader of the Debian operating system from 17 April 2007 to 16 April 2008, and one of the founding members of Goatse Security.
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20. Stéphane Mallat
1962-. (aged 64)
mathematician
university teacher
Stéphane Georges Mallat is a French applied mathematician, concurrently appointed as Professor at Collège de France and École normale supérieure. He made fundamental contributions to the development of wavelet theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has additionally done work in applied mathematics, signal processing, music synthesis and image segmentation.
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21. Tariq Krim
1972-. (aged 54)
computer scientist
businessperson
entrepreneur
Tariq Krim is a French entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and the founder of Jolicloud, a personal cloud content computing platform and Joli OS, a free operating system based on the Jolicloud platform. In 2008, he was the first French national named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of...
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22. Jean-Marc Jancovici
1962-. (aged 64)
business executive
teacher
lecturer
consultant
engineer
Jean-Marc Jancovici is a French engineering consultant, energy and climate expert, professor, conference speaker, writer, and independent columnist. He is co-founder and associate at the Carbone 4 consultancy firm, and the founding president of the think-tank The Shift Project.
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23. Jean-Bernard Lévy
1955-. (aged 71)
businessperson
engineer
Jean-Bernard Lévy is a French businessman, and was the CEO and chairman of EDF.
24. Michel Devoret
1953-. (aged 73)
physicist
Michel Henri Devoret is a French-American physicist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Professor Emeritus of Applied Physics at Yale University. He serves as the Chief Scientist for Quantum Hardware at Google Quantum AI. He is known for the development of various superconducting quantum computing architectures, including the quantronium, the transmon, and the...
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25. Mohamed Benchaâboun
1961-. (aged 65)
telecommunications engineer
politician
Mohamed Benchaaboun is a Moroccan banker, politician and diplomat. He is currently the chairman of board of directors of Maroc Telecom.
26. Léon Charles Thévenin
1857-1926 (aged 69)
engineer
Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.
27. Mohand Laenser
1942-. (aged 84)
engineer
politician
Mohand Laenser is a Moroccan politician and current president of the Popular Movement party and former Minister of the Interior. He was born in Imouzzer Marmoucha.
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28. Patrick Drahi
1963-. (aged 63)
entrepreneur
Patrick Drahi is a French–Israeli billionaire magnate and investor with interests in media and telecoms. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of the European-based telecom group Altice, and the majority owner of the international auction house Sotheby's. He lives in Switzerland.
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29. Louis Leprince-Ringuet
1901-2000 (aged 99)
professor
nuclear physicist
essayist
engineer
physicist
Louis Leprince-Ringuet was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.
30. Philippe Kruchten
1952-. (aged 74)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
Philippe Kruchten is a Canadian software engineer, and Professor of Software Engineering at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, known as Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software, and developer of the 4+1 Architectural View Model.
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31. Julia Kempe
1973-. (aged 53)
computer scientist
researcher
physicist
mathematician
Julia Kempe is a French, German, and Israeli researcher in quantum computing. She is currently the Director of the New York University Center for Data Science and Professor at the Courant Institute.
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