Dr. Serge Chaumette is Professor in Computer Science at the University of Bordeaux, France, and a researcher at LaBRI (Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory, UMR CNRS 5800). He owns a PhD in Computer Science and an Engineering Degree in Networks and Systems. He is in charge of the UAVs activities at LaBRI and co-head of the Teleoperated Systems group of the Albatros GIS, a Scientific Alliance with Thales. He is a member of the Strategic Committee Drones and New Usages of the World Competiveness Cluster Aerospace Valley. He is or has been in charge of several research projects funded/run with private companies such as Naval Group,Thales, Gemalto, NXP, etc. and government bodies such as the DGA (French Army), or ORNL and ARL (US Army). His domain of research is on secured fleets/swarms of autonomous systems (ground robots, UAVs, etc.), where degraded mode of operation is considered as the standard use case, i.e. where there can be no assumption on the availability of communication links or computing nodes that constitute the network. He works on theoretical aspects and also designs and runs real world applications. He has been flying the first totally autonomous and self-organized swarm of drones in 2012. He is the co-author of the book «UAV Networks and Communications» published in the United States by Cambridge University Press. He is the co-founder an Innovation Director of the Preditic start-up that works on industrial (predictive) maintenance using sensors, proximity communication technologies and IA when this makes sense. He is also the co-founder and Scientific Director of IcarusSwarms that is dedicated to first responders/military applications of swarms and to the evaluation of anti-drone systems.