Djamel Abdelkader ZighedDjamel Abdelkader Zighed received his Master in Computer and Automatic Science in 1982 and his PhD in computer science in 1985 – both from University Lyon 1. He was as assistant professor at University Lyon 1 in 1984-1987. In 1987, he joined the Univrsity Lyon 2 where he worked as lecturer (1987-1991), professor (1991-2000) and 1st class professor (2000 - present). He is interested in data mining (including mining complex data), machine learning and knowledge engineering. He is the founder and was director (1995-2002) of the ERIC laboratory (laboratory for development of methods and software for knowledge engineering, and more specifically automatic Knowledge Discovery in Databases). Read More Read Less