Nadjib Lazaar received his Master Sc. and PhD degrees, both in computer science from University of Rennes1, France, in 2008 and 2011 respectively. Following his PhD, he worked as an INRIA postdoctoral researcherat INRIA-Microsoft Research Joint Center Paris-Saclay till September 2012. In 2012/2013, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at the European ICON project FP7 FET-Open in Montpellier, France. He is currently atenured assistant professor at the University of Montpellier, and a co-head of the COCONUT team at LIRMM lab. His research interests are situated at the crossroads of Constraint Programming (CP), Data Mining (DM), Machine Learning (ML) and Software Testing (ST). In particular, he is interested in developing techniques and tools for: Constraint Acquisition; Declarative Data Mining; Constraint-Based Software Testing; SoftwareVerification and Validation via Artificial Intelligence.