Monique Teillaud facts for kids

Monique Teillaud is a smart French scientist who studies how computers can understand and work with shapes. She is a researcher at a big French institute called INRIA in Nancy, France. Before moving to Nancy in 2014, she worked at another INRIA center in Sophia Antipolis.

Working with Computers and Shapes

Monique Teillaud works in a field called computational geometry. This is a part of computer science that uses computers to solve problems about shapes and spaces. Imagine you need to find the shortest path between two points, or arrange many objects without them bumping into each other. Computational geometry helps computers figure out these kinds of problems.

What is INRIA?

INRIA stands for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation. It is a large national research institute in France. Scientists at INRIA work on many different computer science topics.

Helping Computers with CGAL

While at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, Monique Teillaud helped create something called CGAL. This is a special software library. Think of it as a toolbox filled with ready-to-use programs. These programs help computer scientists and engineers work with complex shapes and geometric problems more easily.

Her Journey in Science

Monique Teillaud has had an interesting path in her scientific career.

Education and Early Career

She finished her studies at a special school called the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in 1985. After that, she started working at another important school, the École nationale supérieure d'informatique pour l'industrie et l'entreprise. In 1989, she joined Inria, where she has been a researcher ever since. She earned her Ph.D. (a very high university degree) in 1991 from Paris-Sud University. Her Ph.D. advisor, who guided her research, was Jean-Daniel Boissonnat.

Leading a Big Conference

In 2008, Monique Teillaud was chosen to be the program chair for the Symposium on Computational Geometry. This is a very important meeting where scientists from all over the world come together. They share their newest ideas and discoveries in computational geometry. Being the program chair means she helped decide which research papers would be presented at the conference.

Sharing Her Knowledge

Monique Teillaud has also written or edited two important books about computational geometry. These books help other scientists learn more about the field:

• Towards Dynamic Randomized Algorithms in Computational Geometry (published in 1993)
• Effective Computational Geometry for Curves and Surfaces (edited with Jean-Daniel Boissonnat in 2007)