Salim Boukebbab is a Professor of Transport Engineering within the Faculty of Sciences Technology at the University of Constantine 1 Frères Mentouri, Algeria. He began his academic journey with a State Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Constantine (1994), followed by advanced studies in France, where he earned a DEA from the Grenoble Polytechnic Institute (1995) and a Ph.D. in Advanced Mechanics from Higher National School of Arts and Métiers (ENSAM), Aix-en-Provence (1998). Before entering academia full-time, Prof. Boukebbab gained significant industrial experience as a project manager at the Motor and Tractor Complex (CMT) from 1999 to 2001. Since returning to the University of Constantine in 2001, he has ascended to the rank of Full Professor and Research Director. He currently serves as the President of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Technology Sciences, having previously held leadership roles such as Director of the Mechanical Research Center and Director of the University Statistics and Prospective Office. His diverse research cover advanced mechanical systems design, automated mechanisms, integrated manufacturing, orthopaedic prosthesis biomechanics, three-dimensional metrology, CAD/CAM technologies, artificial intelligence, urban mobility, and road safety.

Keynote title : Dynamic management of urban traffic flow: Challenges and Solutions

Mohamed Zied BABAI is Senior Professor in Operations Management at Kedge Business School.  He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from École centrale Paris (France) where he also worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant for four years. From October 2006 to September 2008, he joined the Centre for Operational Research and Applied Statistics at the University of Salford (UK), working on a project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK). His research interests relate primarily to demand forecasting and inventory management with a special emphasis on the development of quantitative models. His work is published in international journals such as Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics. He is Editor-In-Chief of Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal (Francis & Taylor) and Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (Oxford Press).

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Prof. Vicenç Puig received the telecommunications engineering Bsc/Msc degree in 1993 and the PhD degree in Automatic Control  in 1999, both from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is Full Professor of the Automatic Control Department and a Researcher at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, both from the UPC. He is currently the Director of the PhD Programme in Automatic Control and Robotics and Head of the Research Group in Advanced Control Systems at UPC. Formerly, he was the Director of the Automatic Control Department at UPC. He has developed important scientific contributions in the areas of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control using interval and linear-parameter-varying models using set-based approaches. He has participated/leaded more than 20 European and national research projects in the last decade. He has also led many private contracts with several companies and has published more than 250 journal articles and more than 500 in international conference/ workshop proceedings. He has supervised over 45 PhD dissertations and over 100 master’s theses/final projects. He is currently the chair of the IFAC Safeprocess TC Committee 6.4 (2020-2026) and was the vicechair (2014–2017 and 2026-now). He has been the general chair of the IEEE Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (Systol 2016 and 2021) and the IPC chair of the IFAC Safeprocess 2018, IEEE EDGE 2022, IEEE MED 2023 and IEEE Systol 2025.

Keynote title : Planning, Control and Estimation of Autonomous Vehicles using LPV and Set-based Approaches

Abstract: This talk will present some recent results regarding the application of the LPV approach to the planning, control and estimation of autonomous vehicles. In particular, the talk will show how by means of the LPV approach the modelling of autonomous vehicles (including both kinematic and dynamic equations) can be addressed both from a physical perspective and by using data-based learning techniques. Then, using the LPV representation of the vehicle, efficient planning and control implementation based on MPC and LMIs will be presented. The problem of state estimation for control and SLAM will also be addressed using Kalman LPV filters designed in the LMI framework. The inclusion of uncertainty in the modelling using sets (zonotopes) will also be illustrated. Finally, the extension of the proposed approaches to deal with learning-based algorithms that allow to estimate the vehicle model (dynamic part) from data is presented. The algorithms will  be illustrated using high-fidelity simulators and small scale/real size vehicles.

Prof. Ali MANSOUR received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from INPG, France, and the HDR degree (Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches, the highest degree in France) from UBO, France. He held many positions: Postdoc at LTIRF – France, Researcher at RIKEN-Japan, Teacher-Researcher at ENSIETA-France, Senior Lecturer at Curtin Uni-Australia, Invited Prof at ULCO –France, Prof at Tabuk Uni-KSA, Prof at ENSTA-Bretagne-France, actually, he is Prof at ENSTA IP Paris. He published more than 300-refereed publications in international journals or conferences. In addition, he is the author and co-author of several books or book chapters, and co-editor of two books. During his career, he successfully supervised several Post Docs, Ph.D. candidates, and MSc students. He is a senior member of IEEE and was the vice president for IEEE signal processing society in Western Australia for two years. He has also been the lead guest editor for different journals. His research interests include statistics, signal processing, robotics, wireless telecommunication, biomedical engineering, electronic warfare, and cognitive radio.

Keynote title : General Overview on Wireless Communication Challenges and Applications with a Focus on Smart Roads and Vehicles

Taha Ouarda is professor at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS-ETE) in the field of statistical hydro-climatology and risk analysis. Dr. Ouarda has served as Chairman of the Canada Research Chair in statistical Hydro-climatology and the Canada Research Chair on the estimation of Hydro-meteorological variables. He has also acted as Chairman of the Hydro-Québec Industrial Chair in Statistical Hydrology. He has also served as President of the National Canadian Committee on Statistical Hydrology. Between 2011 and 2017 he was professor at Masdar Institute of Science and technology in the UAE (research institute affiliated with MIT in the USA) and head of the institute center for Water and Advanced Technologies for Environmental Research (iWATER). Dr. Ouarda holds a Principal Engineer degree in Hydrology from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), and a PhD in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University. His research activities focus on the modeling of hydro-climatological extremes, the study of the environmental and health impacts of climate change, and the adaptation to global change. He has developed several computer softwares that deal with a range of problems in the fields of hydro-climatology and environmental engineering. He has also led several international projects dealing with hydro-climatological modeling, environmental analysis and the impacts of climate change. Dr. Ouarda is the author of over 400 articles in international refereed journals in his field of specialization.

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