Renault has employed Luc Julia, a world skilled in synthetic intelligence and one of many inventors of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, as its chief scientific officer.

Julia will oversee analysis and improvement of future applied sciences and improvements comparable to AI, man-machine interfaces, connectivity, and software program on the automaker.

Julia’s “distinctive monitor document in synthetic intelligence, information and object connectivity will likely be key to accelerating the deployment of our technique and changing into a tech firm that integrates automobiles,” Renault CEO Luca de Meo stated in a statement.

Julia, from Toulouse, France, has a levels in arithmetic and pc science from two universities in Paris.

He started his profession in 1994 on the Stanford Analysis Institute Worldwide, a U.S.-based non-profit analysis institute, the place he helped to launch Nuance Communications, a world chief in speech recognition, and likewise co-founded a number of start-ups in Silicon Valley. 

In 1997, with a buddy, he filed the patents for what would later change into the voice command pc utility Siri, and in 1999, offered “The Assistant,” an early model of the voice assistant. 

In 2010, Julia joined Hewlett-Packard as chief technologist, earlier than shifting to Apple a 12 months later to guide the event of Siri. He’s acknowledged because the co-creator of the applying. 

In 2012, he was appointed senior vp and chief know-how officer at Samsung Electronics. 

Since 2020, he has been a member of the French Academy of Applied sciences. 

In the identical 12 months, he was awarded the Legion d’Honneur (the very best French order of advantage) in recognition of labor within the fields of synthetic intelligence, human-computer interplay, digital media and different superior applied sciences.