Michel Parent: Professional Outline
Michel Parent is currently the program director
at INRIA of the R&D team on automated
vehicles (IMARA research group). He is also
the program coordinator of the European project
CyberCars (http://www.cybercars.org). This new program is issued in part from
his research about a novel public transportation
system based on small automated electric
cars which he proposed in 1991 and which
lead to Praxitele, the first large scale
experimentation of station-cars. Based on
his initial concept, Michel Parent lead the
development at INRIA of a new type of vehicle
called the CyCab which includes drive-by-wire
and automatic driving and is now manufactured
by Robosoft, a start-up company.
Michel Parent has spent half of his time
in research and academia at such places as
Stanford University and MIT in the USA and
INRIA in France, and the other half in industry
where he was the leading scientist in two
SME involved in automation projects. He is
the author of several books on robotics and
vision, and numerous publications and patents.
Michel Parent has an engineering degree from
the French Aeronautics School (ENSAE), a
Masters degree in Operation Research and
a Ph.D. in Computer Science, both from Case
Western Reserve University, USA.