Gauthier Picard received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toulouse in 2004, and the Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the University of Saint-Etienne in 2014. He obtained full professorship in Computer Science at MINES Saint-Etienne and was researcher at Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR CNRS 5516, until 2020. Now, he is Full Senior Research Scientist (Directeur de Recherche) at the Department of Information Processing and Systems of ONERA, The French Aerospace Lab. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, coordination, cooperation, resource allocation, task allocation and adaptation in multi-agent systems and distributed optimization with applications to collective robotics, satellite constellation operations, and intelligent transport systems. He is currently coordinating the ONERA Artificial Intelligence Lab.