Isabelle Bloch

Isabelle Bloch (also published as Isabelle Bloch-Boulanger) is a French computer scientist working in artificial intelligence, image understanding, explainable artificial intelligence, and spatial reasoning. She is a professor in LIP6, the computer science laboratory of Sorbonne University, where she holds the Artificial Intelligence Chair.

Education and career
Bloch is a 1986 graduate of Mines ParisTech. After a 1987 master's degree from Paris-East Créteil University, she completed a Ph.D. from Télécom Paris in 1990, and continued at Télécom Paris as a professor and researcher beginning in 1991.

In 1995 she earned a habilitation through Paris Descartes University. She moved to her present position at Sorbonne University in 2020.

Recognition
Bloch was the 2008 recipient of the Blondel Medal of the French Société de l'électricité, de l'électronique et des technologies de l'information et de la communication (SEE). She is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

She was named a knight in the Legion of Honour in 2021.