Malik Ghallab is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris. For most of his career he has been with LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse. His research activity is mainly focused on planning, acting and learning in robotics and AI. He has co-authored several books and more than two hundred scientific publications. He has been head of a French research program in Robotics, director of LAAS-CNRS and CEO for Research and Technology of INRIA. He is a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.