CURRICULUM  VITAE

Personnel data:

Name: HEDJAR    Ramdane

Work Address: Computer Engineering Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, P.O. Box 51178- Riyadh , King Saud University,  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

First email: rhejar @hotmail.com

Second email: hedjar@ksu.edu.sa 

Marital Status: married, father of 3 children.

Language: fluent in English, French and Arabic.

Academic education:

PhD in Automatic control

College of Electronics and Computer Sciences, Université des Sciences et Technologie  Houari Boumediène ( USTHB),    Algeria.

In collaboration with Automatic Department- Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité de Paris (Supélec), Gig-Sur-Yvett, France.

Specialisation: Nonlinear Control Systems.

Title: Nonlinear predictive control of the nonlinear systems (analysis and design). Application to physical system.

Supervisor: Prof. R. TOUMI (USTHB) and Co-supervisor:  Prof. P. BOUCHER (Supélec)

NB. The above PhD is the first of its kind in the area of Automatics and Robotics at USTHB University.

M. Sc.  in Electronics

Electronic Institute - BLIDA University – 09000 ALGERIA.

Specialisation: Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems.

Title: Control of the magnetic suspension system. Simulation and study case.

Supervisor: Dr. SALHI.

B.Sc. (State Engineer Degree with five-years course)     

College of Electronics and Computer Sciences, Université des Sciences et Technologies Houari Boumediène (USTHB), Algeria.

Specialisation: Control Systems

Title: Design and implementation of adaptive digital controller.

Supervisor: Prof. R. TOUMI.

Softwares:

Name of the software that I use:

                                                - Matlab V 7.0 + SIMULINK

- Simnon

- C++

- LC2 (assembly Language)

- Win Word, Power Point, Excel ….

Employment history with courses taught:

1. From November 2009 to date: Computer Engineering Department, Computer Engineering Department, King Saud University as Associate professor. Introduction to Artificial Intelligent, Robotics (Master course), Data communication Lab, Introduction to digital control, Digital control Lab.
2. From March 2004 to October 2009: Computer Engineering Department, Computer Engineering Department, King Saud University as Assistant professor. Introduction to Artificial Intelligent, Robotics, Introduction to digital control, Digital control Lab and Seminar.
3. From Sept. 2000 to March 2004: Computer Engineering Dept. King Saud University as Lecturer. Introduction to digital control, Signal and systems, Introduction to computing systems (Assembly language LC2 and C++), Introduction to Neural Networks, Logic and design, Digital control Lab.
4. From Oct. 1992 to Aug. 2000: Electronic Institute – Djelfa University as Lecturer.  Signal processing theory, Automatism (Graphcet, Petri Netwotk and PLC), Sensors in digital control systems, Logic and calculator (digital electronics), Numerical analysis, Linear control system, Introduction to robotics, Control system Lab (by using Matlab and Simulink).
5. From Oct. 1988 to June 1991: Electronic Institute at Bilda University as Assistant. Computer programming (Basic, Fortran), Logic design (tutorial and Lab), Control system Lab by analogue computer (simulator).
6. From Oct. 1988 to June 1989 (Part Time):  Electrical school (SONELGAZ company). Automatism(PLC).

HandBooks Edition:

Lecture notes of the Digital Control Lab (King Saud University).

Lecture notes on Robotics.

Lecture notes on intelligent systems.

Projects and thesis supervised:

Bsc:

1.      “ Feedback linearisation and cascaded optimal control of induction machine”, B.Sc. degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 2000.

2.      “Control of active suspension systems”, B. Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 2000.

3.      “Feedback linearisation and predictive structure control of rigid link robot manipulators”, B. Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 2000.

4.      “Design and realisation of the climatological factors controller for an agriculture conservatory”, B.Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 1998.

5.      “Design and realisation of the irrigation controller system”, B.Sc. degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 1997.

6.      “Seismic deconvolution signals by Maximum Likelihood method”, B.Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Blida University, June 1996.

7.      “Application of the KALMAN filter to seismic deconvolution signals”, B.Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Blida University, June 1995.

8.       “Design and realisation of the temperature sensor by using PC”, B.Sc. degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 1994.

9.      “Self-tuning PID controller”, B.Sc degree, Electronic Institute, Djelfa University, June 1993.

10.   “Neural controller for rigid link robot manipulator” , B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2004.

11.  “Identification and control of nonlinear systems by Artificial neural networks”,  B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2005.

12.  “Networked control system”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2006.

13.  “Color tracking by hexapod robot”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2006.

14.  “Neural predictive coding: Application to phoneme recognition”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2006.

15.  “Delay estimation in networked control system”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2007.

16.  “Neural predictive controller for nonlinear systems”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2007.

17.  “Wireless networked control systems”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2007.

18.  “Fuzzy controller of nonlinear system”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2008.

19.  “Genetic Algorithm”, B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2008.

20.  "Neuro-predictive control of nonlinear systems", B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2009.

21.  "Self-tuning of PID parameters by genetic algorithm", B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2009.

22.  "Wireless predictive control", B. Sc degree, CCIS computer engineering department, 2009.

Master:

“Identification et commande expérimentale d’un moteur à courant continu du  système de croissance de Czochralski”, M. Sc. degree,

Physics Institute, Blida University, Dec.  2002.

PhD

“Constrained predictive control of nonlinear systems”, Ecole Polytechnique Alger, in collaboration with Prof. Boucherit, started on 2007.

Administration activities and others:

• The Head of Electronic Department at Djelfa University from: 1994-2000.

·         Member of Scientific Council of Djelfa University from 1992 to 2000.

·         The Head of technical team for the purchase of laboratory equipments 1994-1998.

• Organisation Committee Member of the First Maghrebi Colloquium in Automatic and industrial electronics, May 11-15, 1993, Djelfa – Algeria.

Invited talks:

·         Invited to give a tutorial about “Nonlinear predictive control of nonlinear systems” at Automatic Department in Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec) June-1998.

·         Invited by Algerian Rail Way Company (SNCF) to give a tutorial about Magnetic suspension in transportation systems, May-1997.

·         Invited by Algerian Minister of Higher Education to participate in the Algerian Seminar about the Research and Guidelines, January – 1999, Hilton Hotel, Algiers.

·         Invited to visit PHYWE –Gmbh Factory of Laboratory equipments, Sept-1998, Gotingen- Germany.      

Awards:

·         Best teacher award by Djelfa University for the academic year: 1997-1998.

·         Best project supervisor award by the student council of Djelfa University for the academic year 1999-2000.

Research and creative activities:

Research Activities: Member of research teams of:

1. LASCO laboratory in Electronic Institute of BLIDA University. Projects are:

• Application of the fuzzy logic and neural network regulators to nonlinear systems. From: 1994 to 1996.
• Nonlinear regulator Developments. Application to apiculture. From: 1997   to 1999.

·         Parametric Identification and nonlinear control of the induction machine. From: 1997 to 1998.

2.      LAR (Automatic and Robotic Laboratory)- USTHB (1993-2000).

3.      Automatic laboratory (Supélec): From 1998, every year (during summer), I visit the Automatic Dept. to perform my research activities towards PhD thesis.

4.      Automatic laboratory of Djelfa University:

• Project: Fuzzy logic control of climatological factors of an agriculture conservatory. From: 1996-1998.

5.       Research centre of college of computer and information sciences (CCIS-King Saud University), RC5/426-427, 2006-2007:

·         Networked control systems

Research Reports:

1. “Feedback linearisation of the asynchronous machine model”, LASCO laboratory, Blida University, Dec. 1998.

2.      “Feedback linearisation of nonlinear systems” LAR laboratory, USTHB University, June 1998.

3.      “Fuzzy logic controller of discrete (linear and nonlinear) systems”, LASCO laboratory, June 1997.

4. “Direct neural networks controller of discrete nonlinear systems”, LASCO laboratory, Blida University, Nov. 1996.

5.      “Identification of affine nonlinear dynamical systems using multiplayer neural networks”, LASCO laboratory, Blida University, Nov. 1995.

6.      “Generalised predictive control with model reference on partial state”, LAR laboratory, USTHB University, June 1995.

7. “Adaptive Control: An introduction”, LAR laboratory, USTHB University, Sept. 1994.
8. “Survey on Networked control system”, CCIS-Computer Engineering department, (2005-2006), KSU.
9.  “Introduction to networked control systems”, Brief progress report No1 (BPR#1)
10. “Stability analysis of linear networked control systems”, Brief progress report No2 (BPR#2).
11. “Compensation of networked control system”, Brief progress report No3 (BPR#3).

Research report: "Networked control systems", will be published by the research centre of the college of computer and information sciences.

Reviewer:

1. Journals:

v  IEEE transaction on Industrial Electronics, 2005.

v  IEEE transaction on Industrial Electronics, 2007.

v  IEEE transaction on Industrial Electronics, 2008.

v  Journal of Computer and Information Sciences- King Saud University, 2005.

v  Mechatronics Journal (Elsevier Journal), 2006.

v  Automatica (Elsevier Journal), 2006.

v  IEEE Transaction on power electronics, 2006.

2. Conferences:

v Scientific committee member of the first International meeting on electronics and Electrical Science and Engineering, University of Djelfa, Algeria.

v The 38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference,, Orlando, Florida, USA, June 17-21, 2007.

v The 39th IEEE Power Electronics Specialist Conference,June 15-19, 2008, Greece.

v IEEE ECCE 2009, Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Sept. 20-24, 2009, San Jose, California.

List of publications:

Journal papers:

1.      Accepted papers:

1. R. Hedjar, “Fuzzy control of periodic-review state-dependent production systems with unknown deterioration rate”, International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Vol.3, No.6, pp650-660, 2008.
2. M. Bounkhel, L. Tadj, and R. Hedjar Nonlinear receding horizon control of production inventory systems with deteriorating items, Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research, Vol.18, No. 1, pp.37-45, 2008.

3.      R. Hedjar, “On-line adaptive control of nonlinear plants using neural networks with application to temperature systems”, Journal of King Saud University, Computer and Information Sciences, Vol.20, 2007.

4.      R. Hedjar, M. Bounkhel, and L. Tadj, Self-tuning optimal control of periodic- review production inventory systems with deteriorating items, Advanced Modeling and Optimization, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp.91-10, 2007.

5.      R. Hedjar “Nonlinear predictive control with end point constraints”, the journal of Engineering Research (TJER), Vol.3, No.1, pp.69-74, 2006.

6.      R. Hedjar, “Finite horizon nonlinear predictive control of an electromagnetic suspension system”, International review of Electrical Engineering (IREE), Vol.1, No.5, pp. 719-726, Nov-Dec. 2006.

7.      R. Hedjar and P. Boucher, “ Nonlinear receding horizon control of rigid link robot manipulators”, International journal of advanced robotic systems, Vol.2, No.1, pp. 15-24, March 2005. 

8.      R. Hedjar, M. Bounkhel, L. Tadj, “Receding horizon control of a hybrid production system with deteriorating items ”, Nonlinear analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications, (Elsevier Journal), Vol.63, Issue 3, pp. 405-422, Nov 2005.

9. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher and D. Dumur, “Finite horizon nonlinear predictive control by Taylor approximation: Application to robot tracking trajectory”. The International journal of applied mathematics and computer sciences. Vol.15, No.5, pp.527-540, 2005.

10.  R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher and D. Dumur, Cascaded nonlinear predictive control of induction motor, European Journal of Control, Vol.10, No.1, pp.65-80, 2004.

11.  R. Hedjar, M. Bounkhel, L. Tadj, Predictive control of periodic-review production inventory systems with deteriorating items, Top Journal, Vol.12, No.1, pp.193-208, 2004.

12.  R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Commande prédictive non linéaire d’un robot manipulateur rigide, Journal Européen des systèmes Automatisés (JESA) Vol.36, No.6, pp.845-863, 2002.

13.  R. Hedjar R. Toumi, Self-tuning pole assignment with reduced variance regulation. Algerian Journal of technology (AJOT), ENP, Vol.1: Automatique et commande des procédés.  pp. 211-215, 1996.

Conference papers:

1. R. Hedjar, "Control of Nanorobots", International Conference for nanotechnology Industries the leading technology of 21^st Century, Riyadh, April 5-7, 2009 (accepted).
2. R. Hedjar, "Application of nonlinear rescaling method to model predictive control", 3^rd International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and applied Optimization, Sharjah, January 20-22, 2009.
3. R. Hedjar, "Wireless networked control system with a compensator", 5^th Saudi technical Conference and Exhibition, Riyadh, January 11-14, 2009.
4. A. Foul, L. Tadj and R. Hedjar, Adaptive control of inventory system with unknown deterioration rate, 3^rd Saudi Science Conference – New horizons in sciences and their applications, Riyadh, March 10-13, 2007.

5.      R. Hedjar, Robust nonlinear speed control of PM synchronous motor, International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP07), Sultan Qabos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Feb. 19-21, 2007.

6. R. Hedjar, Networked control system with compensator: Application to temperature system, 3^rd International conference on information technology, Al-Zaytoonah university, Amman, Jordan, May 9-11, 2007
7. R. Hedjar, Robust nonlinear predictive control of PM synchronous motor, 4^th Workshop on industrial systems and control (WISC07), KFUPM, May 21-22, 2007.

8.      R. Hedjar, A. S. Al-Qahtani and W. A. Al-Goblan, “Asymptotic behavior of linear networked control systems”, National Computer Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 26-29, 2006.

9.      R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur and S. Tebbani, “Finite Horizon Nonlinear Predictive Control with Integral Action Of Rigid Link Manipulators”, Proceedings of the IEEE conference on control and applications (CCA 05), Toronto, Canada, August 28-31, 2005.

10. R. Hedjar, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, “Robust nonlinear receding-horizon control of induction motors”, 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005, December 12-15, 2005, Seville, Spain

11. R. Hedjar, “Robust nonlinear receding-horizon control of Euler-Lagrange systems” , International Computer Systems and Information Technology Conference, CDTA, Algiers, July 2005
12. R. Hedjar,  P. Boucher and D. Dumur, Cascaded nonlinear receding-horizon control of induction motors, 16^th IFAC World congress, Prague July, 2005.
13. L. Tadj, M. Bounkhel, Y. Benhadid and R. Hedjar, Optimal control of deteriorating production inventory systems under various settings, Workshop on Industrial Mathematics, February 29- March 2, 2004, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi-Arabia.
14. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher and D. Dumur, Finite horizon nonlinear predictive control by Taylor approximation, 3^rd Conference on Electrical Engineering, February, 15-16 2004, EMP- Algiers- Algeria.
15. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, End point constraints nonlinear predictive with integral action for induction motor, IEEE Conference on Control and Application CCA 2004, Taipei, TAIWAN September 2-4, 2004.
16. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Two cascaded nonlinear predictive controls of induction motor, Vol.1, pp.458-463, IEEE Conference on Control and Application CCA 2003, Istanbul, June 2003.
17. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Feedback nonlinear predictive control of rigid link robot manipulators, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp.3594-3599, Anchorage, USA, May 2002.
18. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Cascaded nonlinear CGPC with end constraints applied to induction motors, Proceedings of the 15^th IFAC World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July 2002.
19. L. Gacem, D. Oujaout, R. Hedjar, Identification et commande expérimentale du moteur à courant continu d’un système de croissance de Czochralski, Séminaire national sur la commande et signaux (SNCS’2001), Djelfa, Algeria, October 2001.
20. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Finite horizon cascaded nonlinear predictive control of induction motor, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, pp. 60-65, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2001.
21. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Comparison of two algorithms of cascaded nonlinear predictive control applied on induction motor (Invited paper), CIMASI Conference, Casablanca, October 2000.
22. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Nonlinear predictive controller for an electromagnetic suspension system, 9^th IFAC Symposium Transportation Systems 2000, Braunschweig, June 2000.
23. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, A finite horizon nonlinear predictive controller for an electromagnetic suspension system, 16^th IMAC World Congress, Lausanne, August 2000.
24. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, P. Boucher, D. Dumur, Cascaded nonlinear predictive control of induction motor, 9^th IEEE Conference on Control and Application, (CCA), pp.698-703, Anchorage, USA 2000.
25. R. Hedjar, A. Guessoum, R. Toumi, Robust self-tuning pole assignment with input-output reduced variance regulation, Proceedings of 2^eme International Conference on SSA, 8-9 May Blida, 1998.
26. R. Hedjar, A. Guessoum, R. Toumi, Pole placement control with reduced variance regulation of an electromagnetic suspension system, Proceedings of 2^eme International Conference on SSA, 8-9 May Blida, 1998.
27. R. Hedjar, A. Guessoum, R. Toumi, Fuzzy logic regulator pole placement for an electromagnetic suspension system, Proceedings of 2^nd IMACS International Multi-conference CESA’98, Nabeul Tunis.
28. R. Hedjar, R. Toumi, Self-tuning pole assignment with reduced input-output variance regulation.  Proceedings of 17^eme J.T.E.A.’97, Nov.1997, Nabeul , Tunis.
29. R. Hedjar, A. Guessoum, MAGLEV Transportation systems (Invited paper), Séminaire sur la suspension ferroviaire, Rouiba, Alger- May 1996.

30.  R. Hedjar, R. Toumi , Robust self-tuning pole placement with reduced variance regulation, Proceedings of 16^eme J.T.E.A.’96 ,  Nov.1996, Nabeul , Tunis.

31. R. Hedjar and H. Salhi, Magnetic levitation of metallic objects: Analysis and Control (SISO), 1^er Colloque Maghrébin de l’Automatique et de l’Electronique Industriel, COMAI’93, Djelfa- Algeria May-1993.

32.  R. Hedjar, H. Salhi, Robust pole placement controller for an electromagnetic suspension system (MIMO), 2^nd International meeting on components and electronics, Sidi-Bel-Abbes, Algeria Nov. 1993.

Research report:

• R. Hedjar, "Networked control systems", accepted and will be published by the research center of college of computer and information sciences, King Saud University.

 Book Chapter (chapter 3):

q Hedjar, R. and Tadj, L., Various control schemes of the production planning problem, in Leading-Edge Applied Mathematical Modeling Research Trends, ed. Matias P. Alvarez, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, New York.

NB. Some of the publications given above might be found in the following Web Site:

www.supelec.fr/ecole/sag/biblio/Public.html

References:

1.      Professor Redouane TOUMI, Head of scientific council of College of Electronics and Computer Sciences, USTHB, Algeria.

     Tel:+ 213 21 24 79 12 , Fax: + 213 21 24 71 87,

      E-mail: r_toumi@yahoo.fr.

2.      Professor Patrick BOUCHER, Head of the Automatic Department, Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec), Paris, France.

Tel: + 33 1 69851371 , Fax: + 33 1 69851389,

E-mail: Patrick.boucher@supelec.fr

3.      Professor Abderrazak GUESSOUM, Dean of College of Engineering at BLIDA University and consultant to Algerian Ministry of Higher education, Algeria.

Tel: + 213 25 43 38 50,

E-mail: Guessouma@hotmail.com.

4.      Professor Didier DUMUR, Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, Paris, France.

Tel: + 33 1 69 85 13 75, Fax: + 33 1 69 85 13 89,

E-mail: Didier.dumur@supelec.fr.