Yann Ricquebourg (Gender: male). Yann Ricquebourg is a member of research team Intuidoc at IRISA (Rennes, France), Associate Professor in the Computer Science department of INSA (Scientific Engineer School, Rennes, France). He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Université de Rennes 1 in 1997, then obtained a position of Assistant Professor at Université de Bretagne Occidentale (Brest, France), followed by a position at ENSAI (Statistical Engineering School, Bruz, France) before joining INSA & IRISA. His research topics are involved in a continuous evolution from his first research application domain (dealing with image analysis of video sequences concerning articulated motion) to current ones (addressing digitized documents and archives, so as to extract and recognize their contents) associated with interaction with those documents (gesture recognition), thus implying a growing interest in machine learning.