Richard Chbeir is a professor of computer science at the University of Pau and the Adour Region in France, where he leads the computer science laboratory called LIUPPA. He is the director of the Semantics & Privacy in Digital Ecosystems Research group. He is currently working on information and knowledge extraction. He is currently working on information and knowledge extraction. Richard Chbeir is the head of the OpenCEMS industrial chair and is the creator of the MEDES Conference. Richard Chbeir received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in 2001 and got his habilitation degree in 2010 from the University of Burgundy.