Interview with Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, 2015: CIS Oral History Project

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, Director of research emeritus at the National Center for Scientific Research, Life IEEE Fellow, 2012 CIS Meritorious Service Award, 2018 CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award. Her present research interests include approximate and similarity-based reasoning, as well as the application of fuzzy logic and machine learning techniques to decision-making, data mining, risk forecasting, information retrieval, user modelling, sensorial and emotional information processing, and the management of information data. She has been an elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE CIS from 2004 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2014,�a member of the IEEE Women in Engineering�committee�in 2007-2008 and from 2012 to 2014. She is presently the vice-president of the IEEE French Chapter on Computational Intelligence. She is also a member and past-chair of the IEEE Women in Computational Intelligence Committee. She was elected Vice-president for Conferences of the IEEE CIS (July 2014-2018), Vice-president for chapters of the�IEEE France Section�(2014-2019). President-elect of the IEEE CIS in 2019, President of the IEEE CIS in 2020-2022, she is its Past President in 2022.