Chloé-Agathe Azencott, winner of the youth engineer in AI

France, land of mathematicians and mathematicians, has attracted technology multinationals for several years in search of expertise on burning subjects of artificial intelligence. Quelques grands noms de chercheurs Français émergent dans les laboratoires de R&D des Gamam (nouveau nom des Gafam).And the material is also available in feminine thanks to the work of women like Chloé-Agathe Azencott, head at the Mines ParisTech school in the Chair Prairie-Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.The 36 -year -old researcher has just been awarded the prize of the young engineer in artificial intelligence, organized by the Tilder agency in partnership with France Digital and Challenges.

Credibility problem

His specialty: machine learning for biomedical research with very varied applications ranging From the design of drugs to personalized medicine.Doctor of computer science, lecture teacher in Mines ParisTech, Chloé-Agathe Azencott is the holder of masters at the Atlantic MIT and Irvine.She is preparing a second book after the success of her introduction to the machine learning.Not easy to be a woman in a universe of technology and science always very masculine.In a recent study by Harris Interactive for Tilder, 70% of French people believe that women working there are taken seriously, but 66% recognize that it is more difficult for them to be perceived as credible.

Women's community

Pour tenter de changer la donne, Chloé-Agathe Azencott a cofondé le chapitre parisien de l’organisation Women in Machine Learning &Data Science, qui organise des événements sur ces thèmes dans le but de construire une communauté autour des femmes dans ces domaines.Last June, the Parisian branch had more than 4.000 members.But many women data scientists still refuse public interventions, observes the researcher: they consider, rightly or wrongly, be invited as a woman more than for their work.Chloé-Agathe Azencott thinks that these occasions must be seized to "say interesting things".With some 82 articles, conferences and scientific reports to her credit, she does not lack conversation subjects.

The jury for the prize of the young ingenious in artificial intelligence

1. Madame Maya Noël, CEO de France Digitale,
2. Monsieur Gilles Fontaine, Rédacteur en chef Challenges et Directeur de l'Innovation,
3. Madame Constance Henault, Directrice chez Tilder,
4. Madame Isabelle Kocher, Présidente des Entretiens de L’Excellence,
5. Madame Lara Rouyres, CEO de Levia.ai et Présidente de la French Tech Grand Paris,
6. Madame Karine Picard, CEO d'Oracle France,
7. Madame Anne-Sophie Grouchka, COO d'Allianz,
8. Monsieur Pierre Gattaz, Président de Radiall et de Business Europe,
9. Monsieur Marc Mézard, Directeur de l’ENS,
10. Monsieur Jean-François Fallacher, CEO d'Orange Espagne,
11. Monsieur Thierry Martel, Directeur général de Groupama.