François Yvon is a senior CNRS researcher at the ISIR laboratory of Sorbonne Université in Paris, France, working on Machine Translation and Multilingual Language Models. Before this, F. Yvon has been leading activities in Machine Translation at LISN / LIMSI in Orsay for more than 15 years, resulting in more than one hundred scientific publications on all aspects related to the development and evaluation of multilingual language processing technologies. He has acted as Principal Investigator in multiple past national and international projects in Machine Translation has supervised more than 25 PhDs on related topics. He is a board member of the European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, of the MetaNet network, and has recently contributed as an expert on linguistic technologies for the French language to several European projects.