Albert Benveniste Scientific adviser to the Technological Development Department Scientific leader of the DISTRIBCOM project-team INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique research centre +33 2 99 84 72 35 (Secretary office : +33 2 99 84 72 28) Albert.Benveniste@inria.fr

Albert Benveniste has been appointed as scientific adviser to the Technological Development Department for national incentives and partnerships in the embedded systems field, on June 1^st, 2007.

He graduated from the Ecole des Mines in Paris and completed his These d'Etat in Mathematics, specializing in probability theory. From 1976 to 1979 Albert Benveniste was associate professor in mathematics at the Universite de Rennes I. From 1979 to date he has worked as Director of Research at INRIA. In 1985, he co-invented the synchronous language ‘Signal for reactive systems design in computer science’ with Paul Le Guernic; he is now a recognized contributor to the topic of formal methods for heterogeneous distributed reactive systems in computer engineering. From 1986 to 1990 he was vice-chairman of the IFAC committee on Theory and was chairman of this committee for 1991-1993. He has been or he is Associate Editor (at Large) for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Associate Editor for Int. J. of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and Int. J. of Discrete Event Dynamical Systems. He was also  member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of    the IEEE.
From 1994 to 1996 he was Senior Chief Scientist at INRIA. Since 1996, he has been active in distributed algorithms for network and service management in telecommunications, where he has contributed to distributed fault diagnosis. Since 1997, he has been INRIA’s manager of the joint Alcatel-INRIA research programme. He is or he was member of the advisory board of T-Source, a venture capitalist specialist in seed capital for the telecommunications sector and embedded systems field. From 1997 to 2001, he was chairman of the "software chapter" at the RNRT funding programme of the French Ministries for Research and Telecommunications (Reseau National de la Recherche en Telecommunications).

In 1980 Albert Benveniste was joint-winner of the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control Best Transaction Paper Award for his work on blind deconvolution in data communications. In 1990 he received the CNRS silver medal and in 1991 he was elected as an IEEE fellow.