Nicolas Langlois received the PhD and HDR (Habilitation to Supervise Research) degrees in Automatic Control and signal processing from the University of Rouen Normandy, France in 2001 and in 2008 respectively. In 2000, he joined the graduate school of electrical engineering ESIGELEC, Rouen, France. At present, he is the head in charge of skills acquisition through research of ESIGELEC where he currently teaches control systems and digital signal processing. Since 2008, he is also the Leader of the “Automatic Control and Systems” research team at the research laboratory IRSEEM UR4353. He is the author of several articles devoted to the tuning of predictive controller parameters using different approaches. Since 2001, he has supervised thirteen doctoral students who have defended their PhD thesis. His current research work deals with model predictive control and reinforcement learning methods. Between 2010 and 2020, he was co-leader of the French working group “Nonlinear Predictive Control” within the “MACS” research group. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Scientific Board of ED MIIS n°590 of Normandie Université and a member of the College of Doctoral Schools of Normandie Université.