Edouard Geoffrois has recently joined the French National Research Agency (ANR) as a program manager in the Department for Information and Communication Science and Technologies, while being also employed by the French National Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) in the division in charge of the Science and Innovation Policy. He is also the Technical Director of the Quaero program on multimedia content processing, a strategic research and innovation program supported by the funding agency under the Ministry of Industry (OSEO). After basic scientific studies at the Ecole Polytechnique, he specialized through a Master in Cognitive Science and a PhD on Automatic Speech Recognition at the University of Paris-Sud before joining DGA, where he conducted researches in speech and image processing and managed various projects in the same field.