
CNRS Senior Researcher
(in Automatic Control & Robotics)
Professor Ahmed Chemori received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in automatic control from Polytechnic Instituteof Grenoble, France, in 2001 and 2005 respectively. During the year 2004/2005 he has been a Research and Teaching assistant at Laboratoire de Signaux et Systèmes (LSS - Centrale Supelec) and University Paris 11. He is currently a senior CNRS researcher in Automatic control and Robotics for the French National Center forScientific Research (CNRS), at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM).
His research interests include nonlinear (adaptive, robust, and predictive) control and their real-time applications in different fields of robotics (underactuated robotics, parallel robotics, underwater robotics, humanoid robotics and wearable robotics).
He is the Technical Editor of "IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics" and Associate Editor for "Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

Professor Houcine Chafouk is an IEEE member, he is a professor at ESIGELEC and a researcher at IRSEEM/University of Rouen Normandy, France, obtained a PhdD in automation at the University of Nancy, Lorraine, France in 1990, then he joined the same year the school of engineers ESIGELEC, Rouen. From 2000 to 2008, he held the position of research director and head of the research team in (A&S) Automation and Systems. Since 2000, he has supervised around thirty doctoral students, post-doctoral students and HDRs who carried out their research within IRSEEM or with international partners. He also participated in around forty thesis juries as rapporteur and examiner at national and international level. Author and co-author of more than 200 research articles (publications and communications) in the areas of advanced control systems, diagnostics and fault-tolerant control applied to the fields of renewable energy, automotive and aerospace.

Prof. Mohamed Essaaidi is a Professor and past Dean of ENSIAS school of Computer Science, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco, and is CEO of the Moroccan School of Engineering Science (EMSI) Group, (2023-2024), Chief of Party of Interactive Digital & XR Center Morocco at UM6P (2020-2025), Past Director of International Cooperation at the Ministry of General Affairs & Governance, Morocco (2019), and past faculty member of the of Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco (1993-2011). He is an IEEE Senior Member, he was the IEEE Morocco Section Founding Chair (2004), IEEE MTT-S/AP-S Morocco Chapter Founding Chair (2008), IEEE Global Cities Alliance, Middle East & Africa Chairman (2020-2022), and he has been the IEEE Humanitarian Technologies Board Programs Committee Chair and IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technologies Global Chair since January (2023-2024), IEEE Public Safety Technology, Education Chair (2021-2022).