Alain Jean-Marie obtained his PhD degree in Informatics from the University Paris XI at Orsay in 1987. Since then, he has been researcher with Inria, the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. Between 1998 and 2003, he has also been Professor of Informatics at the University Montpellier 2. He is now heading Inria's team NEO, Network Engineering and Operations, devoted to the application of Stochastic Operations Research and Network Science methods to problems in telecommunication networks and many other fields. His research interests cover applied probabilities, stochastic modeling and analysis in general, with a focus on Markovian models, stochastic optimal control, game theory and their applications to communications, scheduling, computing, biological systems and natural resource management.