INSTITUTE PROFESSOR AT ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, PRESIDENT OF CESAMES, INCOSE FELLOW – FRANCE
Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Daniel KROB got a Ph.D. (1988) and an Habilitation (1991) in Computer Science from University Paris 7.
He is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), presently Institute Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. He was chair of the Dassault Aviation – DCNS – DGA – Thales – Ecole Polytechnique – ENSTA ParisTech – Telecom ParisTech Chair “Engineering of Complex Systems” since its creation 2003 to 2014. Daniel KROB worked in algebraic & enumerative combinatorics, algorithms for mobile telecommunications and finite automata & formal languages, before specializing nowadays in systems architecture, systems engineering and systems modeling.
He is the author of more than 90 scientific papers, 4 books and holds 2 patents. Daniel KROB founded and directed the “Laboratoire d’Informatique Algorithmique: Fondements et Applications” ( LIAFA) of University Paris 7 during 6 years. He was also head, during several years, of the steering committees of two major international conferences in combinatorics & theoretical computer science (FPSAC & STACS). Presently Daniel KROB is chairman of the evaluation commitees of the “Information Management & Modelling” departement of the French Aerospace lab (ONERA) and of the “Architecture & Evaluation of Systems of Systems” group of the technical expertise department of the French ministry of defense (DGA). At international level, he is also one of the 15 founding members of the Omega-Alpha honour association in Systems Engineering.