Chair holder | Jean-Daniel Boissonnat

Jean-Daniel Boissonnat is a research Director at INRIA and has been an invited professor at the Collège de France on the Chair Informatics and Computational Sciences (2016-2017). He is a member of the DataShape team and the principal investigator of the ERC project GUDHI (Geometric Understanding in Higher Dimensions). He is also serving as associate editor of the Journal of the ACM and of Discrete and Computational Geometry.

We are studying the mathematical, statistical, algorithmic and applied aspects of topological data analysis, a fast-growing field with a well-funded theory that is attracting increasing interest in both fundamental research and in industry. 
Our ambition is to uncover, understand and exploit the topological and geometric structures underlying complex data.