Mohamed Assaad Hamida received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Batna, Batna, Algeria, in 2009; M.Sc degree in automatic control from ENSIP (Ecole Nationale Sp ́erieure d’Ing ́enieurs de Poitiers), Poitiers, France, in 2010; and Ph.D. degree in automatic control and electrical engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France. After graduation, he joined ENSAM Arts et M ́etiers ParisTech as a research and teaching associate. He is currently an associate professor at Ecole centrale de Nantes, France. His research interests include robust nonlinear control (higher-order sliding mode, backstepping, adaptive control), theoretical aspects of nonlinear observer design, control and fault diagnosis of electrical systems and renewable energy applications.