Director, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Director, Swiss National Centre of Robotics. Research focuses on the convergence of robotics, artificial intelligence and computational biology. Published four books on neural networks, evolutionary robotics, bio-inspired artificial intelligence and flying robotics. Co-Founder, senseFly, an aerial robotics company. Adviser to the European Commission. Board member of numerous technical and professional journals.