Organized by the National Academy of Engineering and the European Council of Applied Sciences and Engineering and was hosted in partnership with the European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering and the National Academy of Technologies of France.

Bloch joined 60 engineers (30 from the U.S. and 30 from Europe) under the age of 45 for an intensive two-and-a-half day event to discuss cutting-edge developments in the areas of nano sensors, big data, the future of transportation, and wireless broadband. The symposium also facilitates international and cross-disciplinary collaboration, promotes the transfer of new techniques and approaches across disparate engineering fields, and encourages the creation of a transatlantic network of world-class engineers. 

Bloch received an engineering degree from Supélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Technology in 2003, a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, in 2006, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Tech in 2008.

Since July 2009, Bloch has been on the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is currently an assistant professor. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, error-control coding, wireless communications, and cryptography.

Bloch is a member of the IEEE and has served on the organizing committee of several international conferences; he is the current chair of the Online Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He is the co-recipient of the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society 2011 Joint Paper Award and the co-author of the textbook Physical-Layer Security: From Information Theory to Security Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.