Saber DARMOUL, PhD

Dr. Saber Darmoul is Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation and Control Engineering with highest distinction from the National Institute of Applied Science and Technology (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees et de Technologie), INSAT, which is one of Tunisia’s most renowned schools of Engineering. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France. His teaching areas are related to systems engineering, with emphasis on system design, performance optimization, industrial information systems, and production planning, monitoring and control. His research interests focus on distributed control of manufacturing, service, and cyber-physical systems using artificial intelligence. Dr. Darmoul is exploring the use of distributed artificial intelligence (multi-agent, holonic and bionic/bio-inspired systems) to monitor and control disruptions and risks in manufacturing, service and cyber-physical systems. Applications concern reconfigurable manufacturing systems, which are the next step in Flexible Manufacturing. These systems allow high agility and responsiveness to unpredictable change in customer demands and to failures of production resources. Applications also concern intelligent transportation systems, risk management in production systems, supply chains and project management. Dr. Darmoul is leading several funded research projects in transportation engineering, traffic engineering, human machine interaction and virtual reality.