Résumé
Beatrice Pesquet-Popescu is Group Innovation Director of ALTEN, where she defines and implements the scientific roadmap of the R&D activities of the Innovation Direction, establishes academic and business partnerships in relation with corporate strategy. She was previously Research and Innovation Director at Thales LAS SRA, where she contributed to the definition of the new products and services of surface radars. As Research and Innovation Director in Thales LAS AMS (Air Mobility Solutions, formerly Air Traffic Management, ATM), she defined, implemented and managed research and innovation plans in line with the 4 pillar technologies of the group: Big Data, AI, cybersecurity, IoT. She supported disruptive technology projects and was involved in innovative safety activities across the business line and in relation with the internal and external (universities, SMEs, ...) ecosystem. She is also a scientific internationally recognized leader in the field of machine learning, AI and multimedia (video compression, 3DTV, networking), statistical signal and image processing, data modeling, convex optimization, big data. Ability to transform knowledge in innovation (patents, industrial projects). She has participated to the definition of strategic research orientations in the multimedia field at international, European and national level (through different boards, technical committees, working groups). Capacity of quick adaptation and efficient negociation in multicultural environements. Successful bidding, project and budget management. Leadership in complex organizations (group leader at TPT, scientific director of a common lab between IMT and Alcatel Lucent-Bell Labs, international conference organization, collaborative projects with industrial partners). Knowledge of the startup environement: capacity to obtain results in a dynamic environement, engaging the team for quick product/service design and adaptation with limited resources, with an agile methodology. Curious, dynamic, with excellent relational skills, and I have great interest for business development and strategy. Proven ability to build and strengthen relationships and synergy across industry and customers to drive positive change.
Expériences professionnelles
Group innovation director
ALTEN
Depuis le 02 septembre 2024
Manage more than 100 permanent staff (including 15 PhD students), 400 FTE consultants and 200 trainees every year, in 5 Innovation Labs in France and 1in UK.
Group innovation director
ALTEN , Boulogne billancourt
Depuis le 02 septembre 2024
Membre of the research commission
Université Paris-Saclay
Depuis le 02 avril 2024
Personnalité qualifiée extérieure
Alternate chair for nato sto - sensors and electronics technology (set) panel
NATO
De Décembre 2022 à Octobre 2024
Board member
Ateme
Depuis le 02 juin 2022
Research and innovation director
Thales LAS/SRA
De Avril 2022 à Septembre 2024
In charge of the research and technical innovation of the Surface Radars Business Line. Contribute to the definition of the new products and services of surface radars, in charge of the relations with the eco-system (academic partners, SMEs, European partners in particular through the European Defense Fund projects, NATO STO -SET etc). In charge of the IP strategy.
Head of innovation, future air combat system thales
Thales
De Octobre 2021 à Novembre 2022
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." (Peter Drucker)
Member of the CODIR for the Thales SCAF program. Aligning internal R&D roadmaps with external innovation eco-system (research labs, startups, consultancy agencies, ...).
Wg114 (artificial intelligence) co-chair - joint group with sae g-34
EUROCAE
De Novembre 2020 à Avril 2023
Leading the establishment of common standards and guidance material required to support the development and the certification/approval of aeronautical safety-related products based on AI-technology.
Research and business innovation director bl air mobility solutions
Thales LAS France
De Janvier 2018 à Mars 2022
Develops and implements the AI strategy in Thales Air Mobility Solutions (formerly, ATM: Air Traffic Management). Manages the Innovation in this field, in relation with product development and digital transformation. Creation of an AI team by recruiting data scientists, and managing them in relation with system and data architects, SW developers, product owners, etc. Transversal role in the Business Line, working in tight collaboration with the Technical Directorate, the Strategy, services, bids and technical teams. Creation of a AI-platform for showcasing all AI data-based algorithms and services. Takes active part in standardization activities and French and European projects related to AI in avionics. Animates the academic and start-up relations, together with the internal research and innovation ecosystem. 10+ patent applications for AI technologies in ATM.
Professor, head of the multimedia group
Télécom ParisTech. Rated 1st French Higher Education Institution in the Digital Field.
De Janvier 2007 à Décembre 2023
Doctoral supervision of several PhD students, post-docs, trainees and sabbaticals. Graduated 35+ doctors, currently 2 under supervision, more than 50 master students and participated to 40+ PhD jurys in France and abroad (Switzerland, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Finland, Sweden).
Research and teaching in the field of multimedia: Video and image compression: scalable, robust and distributed video compression, multimedia services in the cloud, super multi-view video, 3DTV, holography, motion
Link with the network: joint source-channel coding, network coding, error concealment, streaming
Modeling: image processing (restoration, denoising,…), content-adaptive multiresolution decompositions, sparse representations, semantic video coding, super-resolution
Convex optimization: various applications related to big data and machine learning.
Former interests: watermarking, long-range dependence processes, non-stationary fields modeling.
Collaborative projects (bilateral, national and European): more than 20. Writing successful proposals for obtaining funding, project managent and financial management, timely delivery of results. Collaboration with Thalès, Orange, SFR Zodiac, Thomson, Bull, IMEC, Siemens, Canal+, Envivio, NagraVision, Hexaglobe, MikrosImage, SecureIC,…
Participation to standardization (30+ MPEG contributions).
Publications: 4 books, 15 book chapters, 80 journal papers, 300+ conference papers, 35+ patents.
Impact : h-index 35, i10-index 132, more than 4500 citations
International boards
IEEE, EURASIP, SEE, CNRS
Depuis le 02 septembre 2000
- Elected (by more than 17K members) in the Board of Governors of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2018-2020)
- Member (since 2006) of 4 Technical Committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
- Chair of 2 Technical Committees (Industrial DSP 2013-‘14, Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 2016-2017)
- Member of the IEEE Jack Kilby Award Committee (2024- )
Member of the IEEE SPS Fellow Selection Committee (2022-'23)
-Member of the EURASIP Fellow selection committee (2023-'24)
- Member of the IEEE SPS Awards Board (2012-‘14)
- Member of the IEEE SPS Conference Board (2008-2009, 2015-2017).
- Member of the EURASIP Board of Directors (2003-2010)
- Member of the Club 29 Committee of the SEE (2002-2010)
- Vice-president CNRS Expert Committee on "Multidimensional and Multimodal Signal Processing" (2005-2008)