Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier is a director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research. She was the head of the department of Databases and Machine Learning (DAPA), as well as the head of the research group Machine Learning and Information Retrieval (MALIRE) of DAPA in the Computer Science Laboratory of the University Paris 6 (LIP6) until 2013. Since 2014, she has been a member of the research group Learning, Fuzzy and Intelligent Systems (LFI) of DAPA. Graduate from the Ecole Normale Superieure at Cachan, she received the degrees of B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and D. Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie. Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems (World Scientific), she is also a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Journal of Uncertain Systems. She is the (co)-editor of twenty-seven books and the (co)-author of four books in French and one in vietnamese on Fuzzy Logic and Uncertainty Management in Artificial Intelligence. She is a co-founder and co-executive director of the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU) held every other year since 1986.