Dr. Karine ZEITOUNI was born in Fez, Morocco on June 22, 1964. She got her Ph.D degree in computer science from Paris VI University on July 1991. Since 1992, she is Assistant Professor and Researcher at the PRISM Laboratory. Her main research interest lies in Spatio-Temporal Databases, Spatio-Temporal Data Warehousing and OLAP, Spatial Data Mining and Text Mining. She has published or participated into about 70 articles in these topics. She has supervised 7 Ph.D. thesis among which 5 were upgraded. She has organized and co-chaired two workshops and two conferences related to data mining and data warehousing and geospatial databases. She is member of scientific committees for journals and conferences mainly in databases (TODS, SIGMOD, CIKM, DKE, BDA...), GIS (ISPRS, RIG, SAGEO), and data mining (AP/WEB, ICEBE, EDA). She has been involved in several national (PSIG, RNTL, RNTS, ANR) and international (European and Euro-Chineese) research programs.