SpekersPr. Ahmed RAHMANI A highly experienced and accomplished Full Professor at Centrale Lille Institut and researcher at Centre de Recherche en Informatique Signal Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL), specializing in Automatic Control Engineering & Computer Science, with over 35 years of academic and research experience. Expertise includes design and control of cyber physical systems, collaborative control of multi-agent / multi robot systems, distributed control, swarm robotics, autonomous vehicle systems, Intelligent Robotics and AI integration. Proven track record of leading research projects, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, securing research funding, and mentoring graduate and doctoral students. Committed to advancing complex systems technology and fostering innovation in both academic and industrial applications. Visiting professor several times with Beijing Jiaotong University and Beihang University, China. Strong record of international collaborations concern China (Beihang university, Beijing Jiaotong University), Spain (Polytechnic university of Catalonia, Barcelona) , Germany (Oldenburg University), Morocco (Marrakech University, Fes University, Centrale Casablanca), India (IIT Roorkee, VeloreIT). Reviewer for various journals and international conferences. Program Chair or a member of Advisor /Organizing Committee for many international conferences. Proven leadership in teaching, supervising PhDs, managing research projects, and academic program development. Head of Master “Industry 4.0” at Centrale Lille (France) and Head of specialisation “Electronic and information” at Centrale Beijing (Beihang French Institute). Coordinator China mobility at Centrale Lille Institut. **************************************************************************************** Anas Abou El Kalam Anas Abou El Kalam is a Full Professor at “Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquees de Marrakech” and president of the Morrocan Association of Digital Trust and the Team Leader of the Moroccan Olympiads in Informatics. He is ISO certified 27001 Lead Auditor , CEH and CISSP. He was Assistant director of the OSCARS laboratory and in charge of the “Networks, Systems and Security” master. He was an associate professor at the “Institut National Polytechnique” (INP) of Toulouse – France where he obtained his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches) in “security of critical networks and systems” as well as his PhD in “security policies and models”. He had several responsibilities as the Head of the “Computer Science Department” and the head of the “Networks and Systems security” Department at ENSIB – France. His current research interests are Blockchain-based dsecurity policies, security policies and models, Internet of Things security, Big data security, Privacy, evaluation of security mechanisms, critical infrastrcutures protection, … He co-authored more than 150 high level research paper and participated to several Airbus projects (such as Aircraft Data Communication Networks “ADCN” and Information management for Avionics Platforms “IMAP”) as well as several European projects such as FP6/IST PRIME, FP7/IST CRUTIAL, NoE Newcom++, Celtic Fell@home. **************************************************************************************** Pr. Driss YOUSSFI
Driss YOUSSFI is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, ENSA Oujda, MP Univesity, Morocco and Coordinator of PV-EMUL Project with IRESEN, Morocco (2017 – 2020). Here is a brief outline of his professional experience and research interests: RESEARCH INTERESTS
GRANTS AWARDS AND HONOUR
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS MEMBERSHIP
**************************************************************************************** Pr. Mhammed ECHKOUNDI Mhammed Echkoundi is a Full Professor, an economist at the Institute of African Studies, associate researcher at the University of Botswana. He prepared a doctoral thesis in France on governance and territorial development dynamics in Africa. He is a specialist in development economics and governance issues. Has just coordinated a collective work on "good governance and fight against poverty: case of Morocco, Botswana, Mauritius, Gabon and DRC". He works on the economies of southern Africa and has published several articles on the theme, the last of which is entitled: "Company governance in South Africa: the case of Lonmin and the Massacre of Marikana", published in the notebooks of the Tiers World Association. He supervises doctoral theses in Morocco and the Pan -African University of Yaoundé. **************************************************************************************** Pr. Hicham HIHI
Hicham HIHI was born in Fez, Morocco. He is a Full Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences and a Researcher at the Engineering, Systems, and Applications Laboratory (LISA) in Sidi Mohamed ben Abdellah University of Fez. He received his PhD degree in 2008 from the École Centrale de Lille (France) in Control Engineering and Industrial Computing, and his HDR degree in 2016 from Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech (Morocco). From 2015 to 2018, he was director of the electrical engineering at ENSA in Marrakech at Cadi Ayyad University. Professor HIHI is a specialist in the Control and Automatic Supervision of Complex Systems focused on Industry 4.0, with over 20 years of academic and industrial research experience and a strong track record of international collaborations. He has been a visiting professor on several occasions at the University of Lille 1, Centrale Lille, Polytech Lille, Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech, University of Technology, Belfort Montbéliard, Boumerdes University (Algeria), and the National School of Engineering of Tunis (Tunisia). He has also been President of the International Conference on Monitoring of Industrial Systems since 2011. From 2015 to 2019, he was President of the Association for Industrial Research and Innovation (Rinnovaindus), and has been Vice President since 2019. His research interests include: 1) Modeling and simulation of physical systems using the Bond Graph approach, discrete and hybrid event systems, and Macroscopic Energy Representation (MER) with mechatronic applications. 2) Advanced energy management of electrical systems and vehicles. Author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications (journals, newspapers, and national and international conferences), he has been head of the "Renewable Energies and Control Systems" research team since 2020 and Deputy Director of the Engineering, Systems, and Applications Laboratory at ENSA Fez since 2023. He has been head of the Energy Engineering and Smart Systems program since 2024. He is also a member of several projects. |
