Dr. Luc JULIA Technology for Real People Legion of Honour National Order of Merit Back FR

Experience

  1. 2021–2026 — Chief Scientific Officer — Renault Group, Paris, France & Palo Alto, USA. Designed and deployed the first LLM-based Avatar in mass-market cars. In charge of innovative special projects. Led the « Software République », a group of major European companies.
  2. 2012–2021 — CTO and SVP Innovation, Strategy and Innovation Center — Samsung Electronics, Menlo Park, CA. Developed and launched ARTIK Cloud, an open ecosystem for the Internet of Things. Pioneer of cloud interoperability and « Small Data » ideas.
  3. 2011–2012 — Director, Siri — Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA. Co-author of the founding Siri patents at SRI International. Grew the team from 40 to 85 people and supervised all components of Siri.
  4. 2010–2011 — Chief Technologist — Hewlett-Packard Company, L.P., San Francisco, CA. Designed and implemented the cloud architecture for all connected printers. Led a worldwide team of about 200 architects and developers.
  5. 2004–2010 — Co-Founder and CTO — Orb Networks, Inc. (Acquired by Qualcomm), Oakland, CA. Invented « Place Shifting » by creating a multiplatform system for streaming multimedia content.
  6. 2000–2007 — Co-Founder — Soliloquy Learning (Acquired by Scientific Learning), Union City, CA. Pioneer of Reading Assistant, combining speech recognition with pedagogical interventions, used in more than 1,000 schools in the United States.
  7. 2000–2010 — Co-Founder and VP R&D — BravoBrava! LLC, Union City, CA. Technology incubator focused on new interfaces for education and multimodal products. Created the spin-offs Soliloquy Learning, AgileTV, SpeaKESL and Orb Networks.
  8. 1998–2000 — Founder and Director, Computer Human Interaction Center — SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Innovated in human-machine interaction and rapid prototyping. Built the first smart refrigerator, the first smart car and many other projects.
  9. 1996–1998 — Research Engineer, Speech Technology And Research Laboratory — SRI International, Menlo Park, CA. Led projects related to speech and web interface design. Co-founder of Nuance Communications.
  10. 1994–1996 — Fellow Researcher — SRI International/Artificial Intelligence Center, Menlo Park, CA. Defined and designed multimodal (pen and voice) interfaces, studied gesture recognition and agent architectures.

Education

  1. 1991–1995 — Ph.D., with Honors — École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France. Multimodal Human-Machine Interfaces.
  2. 1986–1990 — DEUG, License and Maîtrise, with Honors — Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (Sorbonne), Paris, France. Mathematics and Computer Science.

Awards

  1. Knight of the Legion of Honour (2019), France’s highest order of merit.
  2. Officer of the National Order of Merit (2023), rewarding « distinguished merit ».
  3. Member of the French National Academy of Technologies (2020).
  4. Nomination for the Marius Lavet Prize 2026 (Press 01/2026).
  5. Among the 100 personalities who give meaning to digital (Alliancy 2022).
  6. Special Jury Prize (ManpowerGroup-HEC Paris 10/2019).
  7. Special Recognition in Trends of 2019: Leader in AI innovation (French-American Business Awards 05/2019).
  8. Among the 50 most influential French people in the world (Vanity Fair 12/2018).
  9. In the top 100 most influential French developers in the world (French government 03/2014).

Advisory

  1. Board of Directors, Chairman of the Strategy Committee — Radio France
  2. Board of Directors — Blue Trail Software
  3. Chairman of the Software Committee — Adeo
  4. Advisory Committee — EyeLights
  5. Advisory Committee — Stern Tech
  6. Former Advisory Committee — Vivoka
  7. Former Advisory Committee — Plume
  8. Former Innovation Committee — Enchanted Tools