Ahmed Hafaifa

Professor Ahmed HAFAIFA was born in Algeria in 1974, He is full Professor in Industrial Process: Automation / Reliability and Systems Diagnostics at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Djelfa, Algeria. Hence he was named permanent Dean for the Science and Technology Faculty in April 2018 until now, after serving as the leader of Science and Technology Filed for five years since October 2014. He received the Habilitation to conduct researches from the University of Sciences and Technologies Houari Boumediene - USTHB - Faculty of Electronics and Computer Science, Department of Instrumentation and Automation in 2012 and he received the PhD degree on Applied Automation and Signal Processing in 2010 and the Magister degree in 2004 on Applied Automation and control systems and the State Engineer degree in 2000 on Applied Automation from the UMBB Boumerdes University, Algeria. Currently, he is the director of the Applied Automation and industrial diagnostics Laboratory and the head of the Gas Turbines Joint Research Team, at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Djelfa, where he is the founder of these research entities, he initiated and supported several international research projects within the framework of collaboration and innovation activities with the industrial sector. Professor Ahmed HAFAIFA is the director of several PhD doctoral theses in Algeria and abroad and the coordinator of several industrial research projects in the field of applied automation and reliability engineering. These projects focus on development sustainable solutions in renewable energies, for sustainable energy applications as a solution of energy sustainability, to minimize the environmental impacts of these technologies, with their future trends. His research area includes modeling and control of industrial systems, engineering of reliability diagnostics and fault detection and isolation in industrial processes, sustainable renewable energy solutions, intelligent systems based on fuzzy logic and neural networks. He acts as an expert in several national and international commissions and in joint collaborative research activities. He has supervised several PhD and Masters students and published many national and international conferences and journals papers. In addition, he is a member in international research projects and he leads national research projects.