Belkacem Ould-Bouamama is full Professor, and head of international relations and research at Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille, France. He is the leader of Bond Graph group at the CRIStAL (Research Center in Computer Science, Signal and Automatic Control of Lille) Laboratory of the National Center for Scientific Research, where his activities concern Integrated Design for Supervision of System Engineering. Their application domains are mainly process engineering, renewable energies, and mechatronic systems. He is the author or coauthor of over 100 international publications in this domain and co-author of four books in Fault Detection and Isolation, mechatronics and bond graph modeling.