EXPERIENCE
Work Experience
PDRA in Bioenergy Process Optimisation and Control, England, The UK, University of Surrey, England, UK. February, 2024 - Present
I form part of a large multi-disciplinary team developing advanced optimisation under uncertainty to rapidly transform the bioenergy industry into a data-driven, digitalized Industry 4.0 sector, to accelerate and enhance its contributions to a Net-Zero UK. The role is linked to the UKRI Supergen Bioenergy Impact Hub. In particular, this role will focus on developing a framework and digitalization roadmap to help companies embrace digital decision-making tools for rapid impact in the design of experiments, real-time control, and model-based process optimization.
Research Support State Engineer, Research Center in Industrial Technologies -CRTI-, Algiers, Algeria. May, 2017 - June, 2019
Research support state engineer responsible for conceptualizing and realizing drones, as well as supervising trainees/Master students in the field.
Trainee as Automation Engineer, LATAFNA Mill, Tlemcen, Algeria. September 2016 - October 2016
Taking training as an Automation Engineer responsible for the maintenance and supervision of different machines in the Mill.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria. September, 2020 - June, 2021
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics , Faculty of Technology . Helding tutorial sessions for:
⦿ EC942 - Optomal Control (Master II Students in Electrical Engineering and Electronics)
⦿ IA742 - Multivariable Linear Systems (Master II Students in Automatics and Industrial Data Processing.)
The position involves preparing teaching materials, delivering courses, supporting students, and invigilating and marking exam papers.
Teaching Assistant, University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria. September, 2019 - June, 2020.
Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics , Faculty of Technology . Helding online tutorial sessions for:
⦿ EC942 - Optimal Control (Master Students in Electrical Engineering and Electronics)
⦿ IA742 - Multivariable Linear Systems (Master Students in Automatics and Industrial Data Processing.)
The position involves preparing teaching materials, delivering courses, supporting students, invigilating and marking exam papers.
Trainer/Teacher, FORMAC Academy, Tlemcen, Algeria. June, 2019 - September, 2019
Working as trainer teacher in Automatics and Industrial Data Processing,
The position involves teaching and forming students in different technical fields.
Research Experience
Bilateral student, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Augest 2022 - July 2023
Enrolled as Bilateral student within the framework UniTrento Bilateral Agreements between the University of Trento in Italy and The University of Tlemcen in Algeria , under the supervision of Prof. Luca Fiori and Prof. Gianni Andreottola, where we worked on Modeling the biogas production from HTC products in a continuous hybrid fixed bed bioreactor, and we wrote a paper that is under review and submitted in the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
International Credit Mobility Student, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Augest 2021 - July 2022
Enrolled as an incoming exchange student within the framework of Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Program at the University of Trento in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Luca Fiori and Prof. Gianni Andreottola.
Researcher, Member of the Tlemcen Automatics Laboratory -LAT- , Tlemcen, Algeria. Since October 2018
PUBLICATIONS
Benaissa DEKHICI, , Ph.D. Thesis: ”Data-Driven Modeling, Order Reduction and Control of Anaerobic Digestion Processes”, Jan 2024.
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA, Brahim CHERKI, Luca FIORI, and Gianni ANDREOTTOLA, ”Modeling the biogas production from HTC products in a continuous hybrid fixed bed bioreactor.” Submitted in the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Forthcoming.
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA and Brahim CHERKI, “DATA-DRIVEN CONTROL OF THE CHEMOSTAT USING THE KOOPMAN OPERATOR THEORY,” U.P.B. Sci. Bull., Series C, Vol. 85, Iss. 2,pp 137-150, 2023.
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA and Brahim CHERKI, “Data-Driven Determination of the Governing Equations of the Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor” 2023 10th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2023), Istanbul, Turkey, , May 8-10, 2023.
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA and Brahim CHERKI, “Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control for Data-driven Modeling of Anaerobic Digestion Process,” 2022 16th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CARI ), Tunis, Tunisia, , October 04-07, 2022.
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA and Brahim CHERKI, “Forecast of chemostat dynamics using data-driven approach” 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Grenoble, France, pp. 1-6, November. 3-5 2021. doi: 10.1109/ICCAD52417.2021.9638749
Benaissa DEKHICI, Boumediene BENYAHIA and Brahim CHERKI, “Model order reduction using Dynamic Mode Decomposition: Application to the Anaerobic Digestion Model N.1 (ADM1)” 2020 15th African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CARI ), Thi`es, Senegal, October. 2020.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Automatics
University of Tlemcen, Tlemcen, Algeria, in co-direction with
LBE-INRAE Narbonne , France October, 2018 - January 2024
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics , Faculty of Technology .
⦿ Supervisors: Prof. Cherki Brahim and Prof. Benyahia Boumediene.
⦿ Thesis: Data-Driven Modeling, Order Reduction and Control of Anaerobic Digestion Processes.
⦿ Research topics: Functional Analysis, Anaerobic Digestion, Bioprocesses, Mathematical Modeling, ADM1 Model, Chemostat, Koopman Operator Theory, Sparse Regression, Optimization, Data-Driven Modeling and Control, Model Predictive Control (MPC), Dynamic Mode Dycomposion (DMD), Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems.
⦿ Coursework: Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Modeling and System Identification, Numerical Linear Algebra, Ordinary Differential Operators, Machine Learning, Bioprocesses, Biological Reactions, Technincal English, Methodology and Publication.
MSc in in Automatics and Industrial Data Processing
University of Tlemcen , September, 2013 - June, 2015
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics , Faculty of Technology
⦿ Supervisors: Prof. Cherki Brahim and Dr. Mokhtari Mohammed Rida.
⦿ Thesis: "Commande d’un Quadrirotor Parrot Bebop Drone."
⦿ Coursework: Embedded Systems, Statistics and Probability, PID control, Programing Languages, Mathematical Modeling, Ordinary Differential Operators, Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Hybrid Dynamical Systems.
BSc. in Automatics
University of Tlemcen September, 2009 - June, 2013
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics , Faculty of Technology .
⦿ Coursework: Linear Dynamical Systems, Control Theory, Microcontrollers, Algorithms and Data Structures, Object Oriented Programming.
SKILLS
⦿ MATLAB
Solve engineering problems using different Matlab and Simulink Toolboxes
⦿ Python
Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, MatPlotLib, Keras, ...
⦿ SQL
SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
⦿ Excel
Conditional Formatting, Pivot Tables, ...
⦿ Industrial Informatics
Simatic Step7 Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Schneider and thier programing languages LADDER and Grafset.
⦿ Electricals
Electrical Machines and Transformers, Electrical Networks and Variable Speed Drives.
⦿ Electronics
Circuit analysis, Digital and analogue electronics, Measurement techniques.