Marc SPIGAI (Thales Alenia Space)

Engineer (Master) Degree in data science from Telecom Bretagne (IMT-Atlantique), France 1989. After an eight-years’ experience developing data science on estimation, filtering and target tracking at Thales Airborne System in France, he joined Renault in France from 1998 to 2000 where he was the head of a research team on image, radar and GPS fusion for driver assistance. He joined in 2000 Thales Alenia Space (TAS) at Toulouse in France. Since then, he has been mainly involved in artificial intelligence for space applications. In particular from 2014 to 2017 he worked for TAS at the research institute IRT Saint-exupery (Toulouse) in the field of machine and deep learning technologies.  Since 2017 he is the coordinator of an artificial intelligence data scientists team in the Software competence center at TAS-Toulouse in the fields of telecommunication, navigation, earth observation and Factory Of Future. In 2020 he has obtained Artificial Intelligence TAS Expert status.