| Guillaume Rozier | |
| Birth Name: | Guillaume, Aymeric, Gabriel Rozier |
| Birth Date: | 28 April 1996 |
| Citizenship: | French |
| Education: | IMT-BS and Telecom Nancy. |
| Occupation: | Creator of CovidTracker and VaccinTracker projects |
Guillaume Rozier (born in April 1996)[1] is a French engineer, data aggregator, consultant in data science, qualified on January 5, 2021 by the daily Les Echos as a "Most mediated Data Scientist of the moment". He is at the origin of website CovidTracker who regroup data about Covid-19 in France. Also, this website hosts VaccinTracker and ViteMaDose who regroup available appointments for the vaccination against Covid-19.
Guillaume Rozier was born in April 1996 from a father who is computer scientist, and from a mother who is professor of physics.[2]
When he was a teenager, he says he was interested about physics, meteorology and mathematics.
Although earlier interested about IT, Guillaume Rozier didn't think he was a "geek" because he didn't know how to program when he got his scientific baccalaureate. After prep school in Champollion high-school at Grenoble, he joined Télécom Nancy in 2016. Also in 2018 he got a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Telecom Business School.[3] During his studies, he studied big-data applied in the medical sector.[4]
Guillaume Rozier works henceforth for a French IT consulting group, a subsidiary of the American company Accenture.[5]
Guillaume Rozier is famous for having created CovidTracker, a website aggregating data about Covid-19 in France, and also because he has created ViteMaDose ("QuickMyDose" in English) which allows people to find an appointment to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Indeed, ViteMaDose regroups the different appointment availability in the region.[6]
On May 21, 2021, Guillaume Rozier was nominated exceptionally to the rank of Knight in the French National Order of Merit.[7]