Jerome FRANCOIS received his PhD degree from the University of Lorraine (France) in 2009. He was then appointed as a Research Associate with the University of Luxembourg at SnT. In 2014, he joined the RESIST team at Inria Nancy in France as a research scientist and deputy team leader. He is also a co-founder of the startup Cybi. His main research areas are focused on the use of data analytics techniques for security and also its coupling with network softwarization. Jerome joined the Services and Data Management research group, SEDAN, headed by Prof. Radu State.