Ahmed Rachid, Ph.D., received his engineering degree in Cybernetics from École Polytechnique de l'Université de Lorraine (ESSTIN) in 1983, an MBA in 1985, his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1986, and the Habilitation degree in 1991 from the University of Nancy. He has taught since 1984, mainly in control engineering and signal processing. Since 1992, he has been a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, where he created the university’s first laboratory in automatic systems. His current research includes processes and systems modeling, simulation, control, diagnosis, and observation with applications to blast furnaces, vehicle dynamics, diesel engines, induction electrical drives, stepper motors, incubators, greenhouses, magnetic levitation, pantograph-catenary, HVAC, co-generation, and electric vehicles. He has supervised 24 Ph.D. theses and has co-authored two patents, two books, and more than 150 scientific papers. He has organized and chaired several international conferences and has coordinated various European research projects and industrial R&D contracts.