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"The arrival of Luc Julia is greatnews for the company. His exceptional track record in artificial intelligence,data and object connectivity will be key to accelerating the deployment of ourstrategy and becoming a tech company that integrates vehicles. Renaulution isall about talent, expertise and team inventiveness, and we are very pleased towelcome Luc at this moment of transformation for the company,” said Luca de Meo.
"I am very happy and proud tojoin Groupe Renault today, the flagship of the French automotive industry. I'malso happy to be starting the Renaulution and to join teams that are buildingthe automotive tech company of tomorrow. Together, drawing on my expertise inhuman-machine interface and IoT, we will develop new and unique experiences forour customers on and off-board and create value for the Group's brands," said Luc Julia.
Luc Julia will be responsible for supporting thefunctions and brands in the conception and deployment of the Group's roadmapfor innovation and key technologies to meet the challenges of tomorrow's mobility.In this capacity, he will act as an expert in fields as diverse as artificialintelligence, man-machine interfaces, connectivity and software. He willoversee the research and development of these technologies and innovations for theirintegration into the Group's product and service plan. He will also interfacewith key players and partners in the sector, notably in the framework of theSoftware République. In order to accelerate the company's shift towards a valuechain more focused on next generation services and products, Luc Julia will alsobe responsible for instilling the Tech culture within the functions and brands.
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Luc Julia is a French-American engineer and computer scientist, born inToulouse and specialised in artificial intelligence. After obtaining a BS andMS in mathematics and computer science from the University Pierre et MarieCurie (Paris), he obtained a PhD in computer science from the École NationaleSupérieure des télécommunications in Paris.
He began his career in 1994 at SRI International, where he created the"Computer Human Interaction Center". He participated in the launch ofNuance Communications, today the world leader in speech recognition, andco-founded several start-ups in Silicon Valley.
In 1997, with a friend, he filed the patents for what would later becomeSiri and in 1999 presented "The Assistant", the ancestor of the voiceassistant.
In 2010, he became Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, then joinedApple in 2011 to lead the development teams of Siri (voice command computerapplication). He is recognised as the co-creator of Siri.
In 2012, he was appointed Senior Vice President and CTO of Samsung Electronics.
In 2019, he published his book "Artificial intelligence does notexist" with First Editions.
Since 2020 Luc Julia is a member of the French Academy of Technologies. OnOctober 2020, he was awarded the Legion d'Honneur (the highest French order ofmerit) by the Secretary of State for the Digital Economy, in recognition of hiswork that has influenced the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Human-ComputerInteraction, Digital Media and other advanced technologies.
