Lionel Prevost defended his PhD Thesis on computer science in 1998 and his supervision Degree in 2007, at Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France. He was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Intelligent and Robotic Systems till 2010. Then, he joined the University of French West Indies and Guiana as Full Professor. His research interests are pattern recognition, machine learning and information fusion. He supervised several PhDs on handwritten text recognition and object detection. He currently works on facial analysis (localization, tracking, emotion recognition) in still images and videos. He published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences. He is program committee member of several conferences.