Draft:Celestin Sedogbo

Celestin Sedogbo is a French computational linguist and director of the Cognition Institute (winner of the label Carnot), a cluster of 22 research units overspread at national level in France. His background is in Artificial Intelligence.

Sedogbo holds a Master of Theoretical Computer Science (Paris Saclay University), a Ph.D in Computer Sciences  (Paris Saclay University), a D.Sc  (Artificial Intelligence, under the supervision of Prof Alain Colmerauer. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, computational linguistics, augmented cognition in various industrial research labs including Groupe BULL (now in ATOS), Thales Research & Technology, but also in academy as Professor at Institut Mines Telecom Atlantique (1992-1994).

Sedogbo contributed to a number of research projects such as deduction for language understanding, the first voiced and unvoiced simulated emotion corpus SAFE, vocal command for defense systems. Celestin Sedogbo was an R&D engineer at Thales, in charge of the regional scientific and technical cooperation from 2009 to 2024, and joined now Human Design Group a leading enterprise in Human Factors.

Previously, he was head of the software research department of the Thales Group, within TRT France, until 2007, focusing on the themes of human-system interaction, AI & Decision Support, and software engineering.

From 2012 to 2019 he was the holder of the regional industrial chair "Technological Systems for Human Augmentation-STAH" at ENSC-Bordeaux INP, whose motivation is the acceleration of technology transfer between research laboratories in New Aquitaine active in the field of digital technologies for human augmentation and local companies.

The success of this regional industrial chair model inspired the initiative that Celestin Sedogbo successfully led, to create the Cognition Institute (21 public research laboratories nationwide) of which he has been director since January 2017. The Cognition Institute (1,800 researchers, including 800 permanent staff), which obtained the Carnot label on February 7, 2020, aims to intensify research partnerships in the field of cognition with the socio-economic world.