François Yvon is Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Paris-Sud University and Director of LIMSI (Computer Science Laboratory for Mechanics and Engineering) of the CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research).

His main research topics are statistical learning (natural language processing, machine translation, speech recognition, text mining, language modeling) and analogy-based learning for NLP.

François Yvon is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in May 2016 upon invitation from Dr. Alexander M. Fraser.