Jean-Daniel Zucker trained as an engineer and obtained a Master's degree in AI for the life sciences in 1986, which led him to work for three years in the US as an engineer and then as VP of R&D for a spinoff of TUFTS University (Boston, USA). After a Master's degree in AI at the University of Paris 6 in 1992, he obtained a PhD (Paris, 6) in Machine Learning in 1996 and became a Lecturer the same year. He obtained his HDR in 2001 and was appointed University Professor in AI at the University of Paris 13 in 2002. From 2002 to 2005 he led a CNRS Multi-Laboratory Project Team in Bioinformatics and AI between the LIP6 and the LIM&BIO of P13. He then co-founded the LIM&BIO laboratory of medical informatics and bioinformatics at the University of Paris 13. In 2007, he became Director of Research at IRD. He is now the director of the UMMISCO laboratory of research in mathematical and computer modeling of complex systems and this since 2014. His research is in AI and Machine Learning, and concerns the modeling of complex systems and high-dimensional predictive analysis applied to health and in particular to cardio-metabolic diseases. He is the author of more than two hundred and fifty journal and conference papers (Google scholar h-index 45). He has given courses in artificial intelligence and data mining in several universities in France and abroad. He has directed 25 PhD students. He is also the co-author of the book "Abstraction in Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems".