is a Full Professor at the National School of Computer Science and Systems Analysis (ENSIAS), Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

He obtained his PhD in Operation Research from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, in 1999.

H’s Founder and Head of the enginneering degree in Artificial Intelligence Enginneering.

His research areas of interest are machine learning , mathematical programming (stochastic and deterministic) and metaheuristics. He has participated in several international conferences and published many research papers in highly indexed journals.