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ICSTL2025 INVITED SPEAKAERS 

Dr. Abbes KACIMI

Abbes KACIMI is an expert at the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) and a member of several standardisation and expertise committees. He has contributed to several projects on a European and international scale. -  President of AFNOR standardisation committee (NF S 99-700 standard) -  Co-author of the practical guide – Cold chain for medicines and its translation into English -  Member of the “Refrigerated Transport” commission and the “Cold Chain in Hot Countries” working group at the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR) -  Development and translation into English of a guide for the transport of perishable products -  Member of the “Refrigeration and Health” working group -  Trainer on the  cold chain  in France  and abroad (Europe,  Canada, the  US, Africa, the  MENA region, etc.)  -  Various  research  projects  and  publications

Keynote 1 title : Agreement on the Transport of Perishable Foodstuffs (ATP), relating to international transport and the machinery used for such transport.

Keynote 2 title : Autonomous and carbon-free refrigerated transport using a natural fluid

Pr. Tarek DJARAFI

Tarek Djerafi is an Associate Professor at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), Montréal, Canada. He received his B.Sc. from the Institut d’Aéronautique de Blida, Algeria (1998), and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal (2005, 2011). He has held research and engineering roles at SCP SCIENCE as an EMC Expert, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at INRS-EMT and École Polytechnique de Montréal. His research focuses on telecommunication antennas, beamforming networks, and the design of RF, millimeter-wave, and terahertz components and systems for next-generation wireless and sensing applications, including 5G/6G and radar-based intelligent transportation systems.

Keynote title : Driving the Future of Safer and Smarter Mobility

Dr. Ali HELALI

Ali Helali Doctor of EngineeringProfessor (Assistant) at Higher Institue of Transport and Logistics of Sousse, currently works at the Laboratory of Mechanics, University of Sousse. Ali does research in Mechanical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Energy, Instrumentation and Industrial Engineering.

Keynote title : Integrated Assessment of Traffic-Related Particle Emissions and their Atmospheric Dispersion

Pr. Seifeddine BEN ELGHALI

Seifeddine Ben Elghali is an Associate Professor (HDR) at Aix-Marseille University, France, and Co-Head of the Systems Analysis and Control division at the Laboratory of Information and Systems Sciences (LIS – CNRS UMR 7296). With over 14 years of academic and research leadership, his expertise spans renewable energy systems, smart grids, hybrid energy storage, electric vehicles, and fault-tolerant control strategies. His research combines modeling, optimization, and advanced control methods to address the challenges of integrating distributed and renewable resources into future energy systems.

Keynote title : Charging stations for a more stable network: aggregation mechanisms and the potential for flexibility

Dr. Abdelmalak BELHOUCHET

Abdelmalik BELHOUCHET, project manager in urban mobility and traffic regulation. With 7 years of experience at Technologies Nouvelles (Aximum group), he has led numerous traffic, road safety, and urban planning studies. A graduate in transport engineering and sustainable mobility in France and Algeria, he uses his expertise to develop innovative solutions to improve the fluidity and safety of travel.

Keynote title : Road traffic regulation

Dr. Mounir FANTAR

Researcher in the history and archeology of Antiquity - HDR. Director of Programming, Cooperation, Publication and Training at the National Heritage Institute (INP) - Tunisia Associate researcher at the Camille Jullian Center (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence).

Keynote title : Transportation and communication roads in North Africa

Dr. Hichem HASSINE

holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from École Centrale Paris, obtained in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Transport and Logistics in Sousse, Tunisia. His research interests include sustainable industrial systems, noise and environmental pollution, production optimization, and the modeling of vehicle externalities using machine learning.

Keynote title : Machine Learning for modeling environmental externalities of vehicles

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