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Vincent D. Blondel
Born	(1965-04-28)April 28, 1965 Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	UCLouvain Imperial College, London
Known for	Louvain method
Scientific career
Fields	Applied mathematics Discrete mathematics
Institutions	Université catholique de Louvain Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Michel Gevers

Vincent Daniel Blondel (born April 28, 1965) 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 networks.

Education

Blondel studied philosophy, mathematics, engineering and computer science in Louvain-la-Neuve, Grenoble, London and Oxford. He 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 (summa cum laude) and a PhD in applied mathematics from Université catholique de Louvain.

Career

In 1993-1994 he was a Göran Gustafsson Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) and in 1994-1995 he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in Paris. From 1995 to 1999 he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Université de Liège before joining the Louvain School of Engineering of UCLouvain where he has been since then. He 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. He was a visiting professor of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Lyon in 1998 and at the Université Paris VII - Diderot in 1999, 2000 and 2002. In 2005-2006 he was a visiting professor and a Fulbright scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2010-2011 he was a visiting professor with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Blondel is a former associate editor of the European Journal of Control (Springer) and of Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier). He is an editor of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems He has published about 100 journal articles and 6 books.

At UCLouvain, Blondel has founded the Group on Large Graphs and Networks. He has supervised 20 doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and 15 visiting professors. He was department head in 2003-2010 and a university president candidate in 2009.

In 2013, Blondel has become the dean of the Louvain School of Engineering.

He was elected the Rector of the University of Louvain for the term 2014-2019, and reelected again in 2019 until 2024.

Honors and awards

• Named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for his contributions to computational analysis of systems and networks.

Teaching

In 2012, he is in charge of the following courses at UCLouvain :

• LINMA 1691 : Discrete mathematics I : Graphs algorithmics and theory
• LINMA 1702 : Optimisation Models and Methods
• LINMA 2111 : Discrete mathematics II: Algorithms and complexity
• LINMA 2120 : System theory seminar
• LINMA 2472 : Special questions about discrete mathematics.

The last course is following the online course of M. Chiang from Princeton University : "20Q about networks : Friends, Money and Bytes"

References

1. Blondel, V.D; Tsitsiklis, J.N. (2000). "Survey of computational complexity results in systems and control". Automatica. 36 (9): 1249–1274. doi:10.1016/S0005-1098(00)00050-9.
2. Blondel, V.D; Hendrickx, J.M.; Olshevsky, A.; Tsitsiklis, J.N. (2005). "Convergence in multiagent coordination, consensus, and flocking". 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005 and 2005 European Control Conference. CDC-ECC '05. pp. 2996–3000.
3. Blondel, V.D; Guillaume, J.-L.; Lambiotte, R. and Lefebvre E. (2008). Fast unfolding of communities in large networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics. Vol. P10008, no. 9. pp. 1742–5468.
4. Blondel, V.D; Gajardo, A.; Heymans, M.; Senellart, P.; Van Dooren, P. (2004). A measure of similarity between graph vertices. With applications to synonym extraction and web searching. SIAM Review. Vol. 46, no. 4. pp. 647–666.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
5. "Vincent Blondel".
6. "2013 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 24, 2012.
7. "Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes".

External links

• Home Page
• UCLouvain Page
• Mathematics Genealogy Project profile
• Large Graphs and Networks research group (at UCLouvain)
• Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (at MIT)

• Control theorists
• Living people
• Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain
• 1965 births
• Network scientists
• Fellows of the IEEE
• 21st-century Belgian engineers
• Belgian computer scientists
• Rectors of universities in Belgium