Patrick Solé  received the Ingénieur and Docteur-Ingénieur degrees both from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and the habilitation à diriger des recherches from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis, France, in 1993.

He has held visiting positions in Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, from 1987 to 1989, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, from 1994 to 1996, and Lille University, Lille, France, from 1999 to 2000.

Since 1989, he has been a permanent member of the CNRSand became Directeur de Recherche in 1996. He is currently member of the CNRS lab LTCI, Paris.

His research interests include coding theory ( codes over rings, quasi-cyclic codes), interconnection networks (graph spectra, expanders), vector quantization (lattices), and cryptography (boolean functions, pseudo random sequances).

He was associate editor of the Transactions from 1996 till 1999. He has been associate editor of Advances in Mathematics of Communication since 2007.