Michel Renovell received his Ph.D. degree in applied physics in 1986 from the University of Montpellier, France. He joined
the Laboratory of Computer Science, Automation and Microelectronics of Montpellier (LIRMM) in 1986 where he served as Head
of the Microelectronics team from 2000 to 2005. He is currently Deputy-Director of LIRMM. He is also Scientific Delegate for
the CNRS National Institute of Computer Science (INS2I) headquater managing more than 50 french labs. He is author of more
than 200 papers and member of the editorial board of JETTA and the VLSI Journal. He has been General Chair and Program Chair
of a number of conferences (ETS, VTS, DDECS, DELTA, FPL, SBCCI, DCIS, DTIS…). He is IEEE Fellow for his contribution to defect
based testing.