“Allowing women to hold the position they deserve will guarantee high performance”

Director of Innovation for the Société Générale Group, Claire Calmejane (EPITA class of 2005) was recently named the most influential French tech personality by the PR agency TytoPR. Her brilliant career path and her stance in favor of diversity have made her one of the most listened-to voices of the "new French tech generation”. This ambitious and enthusiastic 30-some year old fully embraces her "role model" status. She sees the current crisis as an opportunity to speed up changes in organizations that were already taking place before the health crisis began. Of course, her vision also applies to banks, whose employees must now reflect the diversity and aspirations of their clients - a source of richness in her eyes. Here we meet with an Alumni who is on the front line of the major challenges to come, whether economic, technological, societal or ecological.

Research: artificial intelligence required in the field of astronomy!

In March, the teams from the EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE), Institut de Mécanique Céleste et de Calcul des éphémérides -  Institute of celestial mechanics and ephemeris calculations (IMCCE) Paris Observatory and the Physics and AstroPhysics (PAP) research team from IPSA (already working in collaboration with IMCCE) met at the school’s Parisian campus for a joint seminar. This event marked the beginning of a brand new collaboration between the researchers from the two entities, focused on artificial intelligence  and image processing to benefit astrometry. To discuss this unique link between computer science and space, EPITA spoke with Valéry Lainey, an astronomer at the Paris Observatory, and Guillaume Tochon, a teacher-researcher at the LRDE and co-director of the IMAGE major.