Vincent Blondel

Vincent Blondel
President of the Senate
Assumed office
3 February 2025
Preceded byValérie De Bue
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
18 July 2024
Appointed byParliament of Wallonia
Member of the Parliament of Wallonia
Assumed office
25 June 2024
ConstituencyArrondissement of Nivelles
Rector of the University of Louvain
In office
1 September 2014 – 9 February 2024
Preceded byBruno Delvaux
Succeeded byDidier Lambert
Personal details
Born
Vincent Daniel Blondel

(1965-04-28) 28 April 1965 (age 59)
Antwerp, Belgium
Political partyLes Engagés (2023–present)
Children4
Parent
RelativesFrançois Blondel (brother)
Alma materUCLouvain
Imperial College, London
OccupationMathematicianProfessorPolitician
Vincent Blondel
Academic career
InstitutionUniversité catholique de Louvain (1995–2024)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010–2011)
Alma materUCLouvain
Imperial College, London
ContributionsLouvain method
Applied mathematics
Discrete mathematics

Vincent Daniel Blondel (born 28 April 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,[1] multi-agent coordination[2] and complex networks.[3][4]

  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)

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