Richard Chbeir is a professor of computer science at the University of Pau and the Adour Region in France,[1] where he leads the computer science laboratory called LIUPPA.

[2] He is the director of the Semantics & Privacy in Digital Ecosystems Research group (SPiDER).

[3] He is currently working on information and knowledge extraction.

[4] Chbeir is the head of the OpenCEMS industrial chair[5] and is the creator of the MEDES Conference.

[6] Chbeir received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in 2001 and got his habilitation degree in 2010 from the University of Burgundy.