Prof. Daniel Krob
President, CESAMES & Systemic Intelligence
Former Institute Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Title: Systemic Digital Twins for Mastering
Complex Industrial Operations - From System Modeling to System
Simulation
Abstarct:We will present the notion of systemic digital twin which
is a new type of decision-aid tool that mirrors an existing industrial
process in order to be able to simulate possible associated evolution
scenarios at system level. Systemic digital twins are automatically
generated through the WorldLab platform based on the innovative formal
specification language Sigma that smoothly integrates many classical
modeling paradigms such as object-oriented, system, synchronous,
parallel and stochastic modelling. We shall illustrate the power of
this approach on a number of industrial case studies.
Bio: Daniel Krob is currently president, of Systemic Intelligence Group, a startup focused on an innovative systemic digital twin technology, WorldLab, and of C.E.S.A.M.E.S. (Centre of Excellence on Systems Architecture, Management, Economy & Strategy), the leading French company in systems architecting & engineering.
Graduated in mathematics from Ecole Normale Supérieure (1981-1986), he received both his PhD thesis (1988) and his second thesis in computer science (1991) from University Paris 7.
Daniel Krob had several key academic positions : he was scientific secretary (1991-1995) of the 7th section (Information sciences & technologies) of the French National Committee for Scientific Research ; he directed two national research networks in France, each of them involving around 1,000 researchers, respectively dedicated to “Mathematics & computer science” (1995) and “Algorithms, models & computer graphics” (1996-1997) ; he was founder & director of the laboratory of theoretical computer science of University Paris 7 (LIAFA; 1997-2002), bringing it inside the top-3 French laboratories in its domain. From 2001 to 2013, Daniel Krob also founded and directed the master department of the most important French software engineering school (EPITA). Finally, he was institute professor in computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, France (2001-2019), the most prestigious French engineering university, established in 1794, and founder & head of the Ecole Polytechnique – Thales industrial chair “Engineering of complex systems” (2003-2015). Recently he was also nominated distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University, China (2022-2024).
Internationally known in several scientific domains, Daniel Krob wrote more than 100 papers on various subjects such as algorithms, algebraic and enumerative combinatorics, control theory, discrete mathematics, mobile communications, quantum groups, signal processing, system theory or theoretical computer science. He is the author of several books and of five patents in various domains (computer security, mobile communications, traffic optimization, digital twins architecture). Daniel Krob was also the head during 10 years of the steering committees of two main international scientific conferences, i.e. “Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics”, the world reference conference in its domain, and “Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science”, the second main European conference in its field.
Nowadays Daniel Krob specialized in systems architecting, engineering and modelling. He worked for major international companies (e.g. Airbus, Alstom Transport, Ariane Group, AVIC, Bouygues, COMAC, EDF, Framatome, Huawei, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nissan, Renault, Safran, Schneider Electric, Stellantis, Société Générale, Sony, etc.) in many areas such as aeronautics, automotive, bank, energy, high tech, railway, services and space. He is one of the leading professional experts in systems engineering in the world, recognized as a Fellow (only 100 people in the world) by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE). He designed the CESAM (CESAMES Systems Architecting Method) MBSE methodology which was deployed on more than 2,000 real system development projects. He created in 2009 the international conference Complex Systems Design & Management which is now organized alternatively in Beijing and Paris each year. Within CESAMES, he trained more than 10,000 professional engineers around the world in systems architecting, especially through dedicated on-the-job trainings. He conducted lots of consulting missions in systems architecting & engineering around the world, advising the top management in these domains, and directed two important digital industrial transformation programs – in Airbus and PSA – dedicated to the installation of model-based systems engineering at enterprise levels. More recently he designed the systemic digital twin software solution WorldLab and the formal system specification language on which it is based.