Biographical note

Soumia El Hani is a Professor of Electrical Machine and drives at the ENSET, Mohammed V University Rabat, Morocco since 1992. She obtained her engineering degree From Higher school of Mines in Rabat, and her PhD in Automatic from Mohammedia School of Engineering in Rabat in 2003. Her research interests are in the area of Robust Control, Monitoring and Diagnosis of Electromechanical Systems. She in charge of the research team ‘Energy Optimisation, Diagnosis and control’ EODIC, research Laboratory in Energy, Electrotechnic, Robotic and Automatic. She is Author of several publications in the field of electrical engineering, including robust control systems, diagnosis and control systems of wind electric conversion. She has supervised Ph D and Masters Theses dealing with different research topics concerned with her research interests. Soumia El Hani is an IEEE senior member. She was a member of the Organizing and the Scientific Committees of several international conferences dealing with topics related to Renewable Energy, Electrical Machines and Drives. Since 2015, Soumia El Hani is the co-founder and general co- chair of ‘The International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies’ (ICEIT). Also, she is the co-editor of ICEIT 2015 and ICEIT 2016 Proceedings.

Mohamed Essaaidi is a Professor and Senior Member of  the US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has been the Dean of ENSIAS College of Engineering of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco since December 2011. He was Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco from 1993 till 2011. He is the founder and Past Chairman of the IEEE Morocco Section, founder of Joint Morocco Chapter of IEEE Computer & Communication Societies, Founder and Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and Joint Chapter of Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Morocco and founder of IEEE EducationSociety Morocco Chapter. He has been also the founding Director of the Morocco Office of Arab Science and Technology Foundation, ASTF (2006-2009) and the Coordinator of ASTF RD&I Network of Electro-Technology since 2006. He has also founded several IEEE Student Branches in different Moroccan universities and engineering schools. Prof. Essaaidi has also actively contributed to the establishment of IEEE Tunisia Section, IEEE Algeria Section, and IEEE Iraq Section. He has authored and co-authored 5 books and more than 180 papers published in international refereed journals and conferences’ proceedings covering different topics related to the field of Electrical, Information and Communication Technologies. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal on Information and Communication Technologies, Serial Publications, India between 2007 and 2011. He is also an active member of the editorial boards of several IEEE and other refereed international journals in the field of electrical engineering and information and communication technologies. Prof. Essaaidi is the founder and has been the General Chair of the Mediterranean Microwave Symposium since 2000, he was the General Chair of Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium in 2005 and 2007, the International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Computing in 2009, 2011 and 2012, International Conference on Complex Systems in 2012, 2013, 2015, International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference in 2013, 2014, 2015 and American / Moroccan NSF Workshop on Smart Cities in 2015. He has also been involved in the Organizing and Scientific Committees of several other international conferences held worldwide. Prof. Essaaidi holds 10 patents on antennas for very high data rate UWB and multi-band wireless communication systems and high resolution medical imaging systems. Furthermore, he has co-organized / been involved in the juries of several national and international competitions aiming atfostering research, development and innovation such as Moroccan Engineers Week 2006, 2007, “Made in Morocco”, Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) “Made in Arabia” Competitions in 2007 and 2009, Qatar Foundation Stars of Science 2010 and Intel Science Competition 2011. He was the manager of two projects for Arab Science and Technology Foundation (www.astf.net) with a grant of Spanish Agency of International Cooperation about “Measures of support to the innovation of Arab Small and Medium Enterprises” and “Implication of the Arab scientific community in the process of decision Making.”