Baptiste is most well known as the president of the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) in addition to his several books and scientific publications and communications in the field of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operational research and artificial intelligence.

During this time he published several books and around 150 scientific papers, and became the head of Ecole Polytechnique engineering school's information technology laboratory and is credited with creating the Institute of Information Sciences and Interactions prior to being appointed Associate Director General in 2014 of CNRS.

Furthermore, Baptiste has aided in founding and developing a number of start-ups and followed several collaborations with digital, defence and aviation manufactures.

[2] During 1999, Batisete was awarded the Prix Robert Faure award by the French Operations Research & Decision Support Society (ROADEF), a non-profit society that aims to promote scientific fields of operations Research and Decision in France.

Baptiste won this award fue to the quality of his PHD thesis and his previous publications and achievements up to the year 2000.