<p>Michel Beaudouin-Lafon is Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris-Sud (France) and a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France. He was director of LRI, the laboratory for computer science at Université Paris-Sud (280 faculty, staff, and PhD students) for eight years, then spent two years as visiting professor at Stanford University. Michel has worked in human-computer interaction (HCI) for over 20 years and was elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2006. His research interests include fundamental aspects of interaction, engineering of interactive systems, computer-supported cooperative work and novel interaction techniques. He works in the In Situ group, a joint lab between LRI and INRIA (<a href="http://insitu.lri.fr">http://insitu.lri.fr</a>), and is directing the 22M€ Digiscope project. Michel has advised twenty Ph.D. students, sits on several journal editorial boards and on many program committees. He was the technical co-chair for the ACM CHI  2013 conference in Paris. He founded AFIHM, the Francophone association for human-computer interaction. He is a member of the ACM Europe Council and was a member of the ACM Council and the ACM Publications Board.</p><p><strong>Web:</strong> <a href="http://www.lri.fr/~mbl">http://www.lri.fr/~mbl</a></p>