Biography:Christian Bessiere

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Short description: French computer scientist

Christian Bessiere is a French computer scientist. He is research director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, the French national institute for research).[1] His lab is hosted by University of Montpellier, France. He is known for his work in artificial intelligence, especially in the area of constraint programming.

Career

Christian Bessiere received a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992.[2]

In 2007, Bessiere was the program chair of the International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP).[3] In 2012, he was the organizing committee chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI).[4] In 2020, he was the program chair of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).[2][5] He has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) from 2008 to 2011, and Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal from 2011 to 2017.[6][7] He has been a Member of the advisory board of the Constraints Journal since 2009.[8]

In 2005, Bessiere was a founding member of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP).[9] He was a member of its executive committee until 2009, and its Treasurer until 2007.[10]  He was the president of the IJCAI Board of Trustees from 2021 to 2023.[11]  In 2024, he founded the Artificial Intelligence Scientific Organizations Coordinating Council (AISOCC) together with Eugene Freuder and Francesca Rossi.[12]

In 2024, Bessiere was a Member of the AAAI Presidential Panel on the Future of AI Research.[13] In 2024, he gave a keynote speech at the UNESCO World Conference on Digital Education, in Shanghai.[14] In 2025, he spoke at the Panel on 'Artificial Intelligence: Risks and Global Regulation' at the World Peace Forum, in Beijing.[15]

Honours and awards

In 2006, Bessiere has been elected a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI).[16] In 2012, his paper Arc consistency and arc consistency again[17] received an honourable mention at the 'AAAI Classic Paper Award'.[18] In 2022, his paper An Optimal Coarse-grained Arc Consistency Algorithm[19] received the 'AIJ Classic Paper Award'[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Home". https://www.lirmm.fr/~bessiere/Site/Home.html. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Short Bio". https://www.lirmm.fr/~bessiere/Site/Short_Bio.html. 
  3. ↑ "CP 2007". http://www.a4cp.org/cp2007/Welcome.html. 
  4. ↑ "ECAI 2012". https://www.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/. 
  5. ↑ "Conference Committee – IJCAI-PRICAI2020" (in en-US). https://ijcai20.org/conference-committee/index.html. 
  6. ↑ "JAIR". https://jair.org/index.php/jair. 
  7. ↑ "Artificial Intelligence Journal". https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence. 
  8. ↑ "Constraints Journal". https://link.springer.com/journal/10601. 
  9. ↑ "ACP". https://www.a4cp.org/. 
  10. ↑ "ACP Elections". https://www.a4cp.org/-1. 
  11. ↑ "IJCAI Presidents". https://www.ijcai.org/trustees/former_trustees_serving_on_the_executive_committee. 
  12. ↑ "AISOCC". https://aisocc.org/. 
  13. ↑ AAAI 2025 Presidential Panel. https://aaai.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/AAAI-2025-PresPanel-Report-Digital-3.7.25.pdf. Retrieved 2025-09-17. 
  14. ↑ "World Digital Education Conference 2024". http://en.moe.gov.cn/features/2024WorldDigitalEducationConference/. 
  15. ↑ "World Peace Forum 2025". https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1399/14383.htm. 
  16. ↑ "EurAI Fellows". https://eccai.org/fellow.php?sort=year. 
  17. ↑ Bessiere, Christian (1993-07-01). "Arc-consistency and arc-consistency again". AAAI'93 65: 108–113. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(94)90041-8. ISSN 0004-3702. https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/http://www.aaai.org/Library/AAAI/1993/aaai93-017.php. 
  18. ↑ "AAAI Classic Paper Award" (in en-US). https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/aaai-classic-paper-award/. 
  19. ↑ Bessiere, Christian; Régin, Jean-Charles; Yap, Roland H. C.; Zhang, Yuanlin (2005-07-01). "An optimal coarse-grained arc consistency algorithm". Artificial Intelligence 165 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2005.02.004. ISSN 0004-3702. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0004370205000482. 
  20. ↑ "Awards - Artificial Intelligence | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier" (in en-us). https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence/about/awards/2022-aij-classic-paper-award-winners. 



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