Laurent Besacier has been a Professor at University Joseph Fourier since September 2009. He defended his Ph.D. Thesis in computer science in April 1998 on “A parallel model for automatic speaker recognition” at the University of Avignon (France). Then he spent one and a half years at IMT (Switzerland) as an Associate Researcher working on M2VTS European project (Multimodal Person Authentication). Since September 1999, he has been an Associate Professor (Professor since 2009) in computer science at the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France). From September 2005 to October 2006, he was invited scientist at IBM Watson Research Center working on speech-to-speech translation. His research interests can be divided in two main parts: 1. speech and audio processing in a multimodal framework; 2. multilingual speech recognition and (recently) translation. He has supervised or cosupervised 12 Ph.D. students and 15 Master students. Finally, he has been involved in several national and international projects: among others, the NESPOLE European project on speech-to-speech translation, M2VTS European project on multimodal biometrics, as well as evaluation campaigns organized by NIST, DARPA, or other organizations: RT, TRECvid, TRANSTAC, WMT, IWSLT.