Claire Laudy is a senior research engineer at Thales since 2000. She first worked in the domain of Human-machine interaction and then obtained her PhD from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France in 2010 in the field of symbolic information fusion. 

 Her research interests include knowledge representation and modeling (ontologies, conceptual graphs), symbolic fusion and graph algorithms for high-level information management.
 She was involved in several research projects dealing with the new usage of social media for emergency and crisis management and invasive species monitoring. More recently, she focused her work on the evaluation and validation of high level information fusion algorithms. She proposed the first High Level Information Fusion, HLIF2024, organized jointly with the 27th International Conference on Information Fusion.

 Claire is much involved in the international research community on information fusion through her presence at the yearly organized International Conference on Information Fusion and the publication of several book chapters and numerous scientific papers in this domain. She was elected member of ISIF board of directors in January 2023.