Claire Mathieu

{{short description|French computer scientist}}

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Claire Mathieu (formerly Kenyon, born 1965Birth year from [http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000000256445 ISNI authority control file], retrieved 2018-11-29.) is a French computer scientist and mathematician, known for her research on approximation algorithms, online algorithms, and auction theory. She works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique.{{citation|title=Page personnelle de Claire Mathieu|publisher=École Normale Supérieure|accessdate=2016-03-28|url=https://www.di.ens.fr/ClaireMathieu.html|archive-date=2021-02-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225080745/http://www.di.ens.fr/ClaireMathieu.html|url-status=dead}}.

Mathieu earned her Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Paris-Sud, under the supervision of Claude Puech.{{mathgenealogy|id=101156}} She worked at CNRS and ENS Lyon from 1991 to 1997, at Paris-Sud from 1997 to 2002, at the École Polytechnique from 2002 to 2004, and at Brown University from 2004 to 2011 before returning to CNRS in 2012.{{citation|title=Curriculum vitae|first=Claire|last=Mathieu|year=2010|publisher=Brown University|url=http://cs.brown.edu/~claire/vita-public.pdf}}.

She was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming{{citation|title=Claire Mathieu|department=Invited Talks|publisher=International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming|year=2014}}. and at the 2015 Symposium on Discrete Algorithms.{{citation|title=Invited Presentations|department=ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms 2015|url=https://www.siam.org/meetings/da15/invited.php|year=2015|publisher=Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}}. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2019.{{citation|url=https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/talents/cnrs?medal=39|title=Talents|publisher=CNRS|access-date=2022-03-09}} In 2020, she became a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.