Gérard Govaert (UTC) holds a full Professor position (“classe exceptionelle”) at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and is a member of the Heudiasyc laboratory. He is the author/coauthor of over 50 reviewed papers and book chapters. He is also coauthor of Mixmod, a
GPL multi-platform software for estimation of mixture models, developed in collaboration with INRIA futurs and the University of Besançon (www-math.univ- fcomte.fr/mixmod). His current research interests include co-clustering, block-clustering, mixture of categorical data and model selection.