Noël Crespi, professor, holds a Master’s from the Universities of Orsay and Kent, a diplome d’ingénieur from Telecom Paris, a Ph.D and an Habilitation from Sorbonne University. From 1993 he worked at CLIP, Bouygues Telecom and then France Telecom R&D. He joined Nortel Networks as Telephony Program manager. He joined Institut Mines-Telecom, Institut Polytechnique de Paris in 2002 and is currently professor and Program Director, leading the Data Intelligence and Communication Engineering Lab.