Professor
MIchel Beaudouin-Lafon is a Professor of Computer Science, Classe Exceptionnelle, at Universite Paris-Sud (France) and a senior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France.
He has worked in human-computer interation for 30 years and played a fundamental role in establishing and promoting the discipline in France. He has published more than 150 papers, served on program committees of many conferences, and worked tirelessly to mentor the next generation of computer scientists and researchers, including 28 Ph.D. students. Beaudouin-Lafon aslo founded the Association Francophone d'Interaction Homme-Machine (AFIHM), the French equivalent of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGCHI, and served as its first president. His research interests include: fundamential aspects of interaction, novel interaction techniques, computer-supported cooperative work and engineering of interactive systems.