Ryad Zemouri was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1974. He received the engineering degree in electronic and control science from the University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou/Algeria in 1998, then the post-graduated diploma in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in 2003, both from the Franche-Comté University of Besançon (France). He is currently an Associate Professor (since 2003) with the Engineering Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris (France). He was a Research Fellow with Institut de recherche of Hydro-Québec (IREQ), Varennes (Canada), and the École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal (Canada) for six months (from February to August 2019). His research interests include Machine Learning for safety-critical Prognosis, Diagnosis and Health Management.