Prior to his current role as Chief Scientific Officer for Renault, Dr. Luc Julia held a couple of significant leadership positions such as: CTO and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, Co-Creator of the Apple Voice Assistant Siri, Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard and co-founded several start-ups in the Silicon Valley.

Dr. Luc Julia first went to MIT, then joined SRI International (part of Stanford University), located in Silicon Valley in California, where he worked as a researcher in the field of voice interfaces. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, which is now the world leader is speech recognition.

In Renault, Dr. Luc Julia oversees the research and development of Artificial Intelligence, Man-Machine Interfaces, Connectivity and Software for their integration into the Group’s products and services plan.

Recipient of Légion d’Honneur, the highest order of France, and member of its National Academy of Technologies, he holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.

He is the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.