Philippe Baumard is a tenured university Professor in behavioral sciences and strategy at the National Conservatory for Arts and Manufacturing (Cnam), Paris and Director of Cnam’s Security Defense Intelligence Laboratory (SDR-3C). Pr. Baumard is laureate on the French Presidency’s national award for innovation for artificial intelligence applied to autonomous and behavioral learning (CMI 2014). A visiting professor at many leading schools, including Stanford University’s School of Engineering, UC Berkeley Haas and NYU Stern, Pr. Baumard pioneered works on information and cyber-warfare in the early 1990s, noticeably with his “From Info-War to Knowledge- Warfare” (AFCEA, 1996).
Pr. Baumard was appointed in 2010, and renewed in 2013, as President of the Scientific Council for Defense and Security policy and strategic issues (CSFRS), a French State public and private dual- agency under the authority of France’s Prime Minister. The main focus of his research is autonomous and implicit learning systems, tacit learning, and their implications for cyber- deterrence. His applied research focuses on behavioral learning for the deterrence of advanced threats on critical infrastructures. Pr. Baumard published 11 books, including Cybersecurity in France(Springer, 2017), and The strategic void (CNRS, 2015).