Dominique Genoud studied at the Federal institute of Technolgy in Lausanne Switzerland (EPFL), he then worked in different places in Switzerland as Software and hardware engineer (including nagra Kudelski). From 1995 to 1999 he was researcher at IDIAP Switzerland in voice recognition and biometrics systems where he obtained his PhD thesis in Information systems. In 1999 he made a postdoctoral at ICSI UC Berkeley.From 1999 to 2002 he worked as senior research engineer at Nuance Communications in Menlo Park California. Dominique Genoud has several international publications (articles, books and patents) in the fields of biometrics and data analysis systems, etc. From 2002 to 2006 he worked as manager at Polyright, a Swiss company active in software products for RFID solutions.Since 2006 he is CEO of Loutze-informatique.com, a software company that he founded. He joined the software engineering unit of the Institute of Information Systems at HES-SO Valais-Wallis in 2010. Dominique current research activities are focused on machine learning and data mining for energy (smart-grids/micro-grids) to predict consumption and renewable production. He also contribute to research in multi-source intelligent data analysis (machine learning) applied in domain such as the social media and advanced text mining, or temporal- spacial systems in biotechnology, energy and maps.From 2017 to the end of 2018 he was the CTO of Agrofly SA. He is now R&D consultant for new startups that are operating heavy lift drones used to spray on vineyards and cultures. He is sharing his knowledge on building and flying ultra-precise drones.From January 2019 he is now expert for Innosuisse.