Frédéric Bevilacqua is the head of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at IRCAM in Paris, in the joint research lab Science & Technology for Music and Sound – IRCAM – CNRS – Sorbonne Université. His research concerns the interaction between movement and sound and the development of gesture-based interactive systems, with applications in performing arts, education and health. He holds a MS in physics and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Optics from EPFL. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. From 1999 to 2003 he was a researcher at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California Irvine. In 2003 he joined IRCAM as a researcher on gesture analysis for music and performing arts. He co-authored more than 150 scientific publications and co-authored 5 patents. He was keynote or invited speaker at several international conferences such as the ACM TEI’13. He was awarded in 2011 the 1st Prize of the Guthman Musical 1st Prize of the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Georgia Tech) and received the award “prix ANR du Numérique” from the French National Research Agency (2013).