Saber Darmoul

Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
École Centrale Casablanca, Morocco

Dr. Saber Darmoul has B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation and Control Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie, INSAT), which is one of Tunisia’s renowned universities of Engineering Education. He graduated with first degree honors and received a distinction prize for Engineering Excellence from the President of the Republic of Tunisia. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Université Clermont Auvergne (formerly known as Université Blaise Pascal), France. He worked in renowned engineering education institutions in the EMEA region, such as the French SIGMA Clermont (formerly known as Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée, IFMA), and King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.

Currently, he is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Ecole Centrale Casablanca, Morocco, which is member of the international network of French Ecole Centrale Group (Groupe Ecole Centrale, GEC), with campuses in France, China, India, and Mauritius. His teaching areas are related to Systems Engineering, with emphasis on Enterprise Architecture and Business Analysis. His research interests focus on exploring the use of distributed artificial intelligence (multi-agent, holonic and bionic/bio-inspired systems) to monitor and control disturbances and risks in cyber-physical systems. Applications include Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS), and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).

Dr. DARMOUL collaborates with field practitioners and researchers from both industry and academia in the EMEA region (Tunisia, Morocco, France and Saudi Arabia) to build computer systems and decision support tools that are more responsive to change, disruptions and risks. He is leading several funded research projects in industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, transportation and traffic engineering, human machine interaction and virtual reality. His latest project is a European funded ERASMUS+ Capacity building project, involving 7 universities from 5 EMEA region countries, focusing on strengthening skills and training expertise for Tunisian and Moroccan transition to industry 4.0 era (ENHANCE).