Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique

Codesign of Embedded systems; Networks on Chips; Wireless sensor networks; Communicating embedded components; Internet of things.
Architectures and solutions for smart societies.
Development in research and academic careers; Training and skill enhancement for PhD and post-doctoral students, researchers and teachers in higher education.

Education

1987

Engineer degree in Computing

Institut National de formation en Informatique,

(presently Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique - ESI)

Algiers, Algeria.

1991

M.Sc.

Institut National de formation en Informatique

2002

PhD

Institut National de formation en Informatique

Service

2008 - present: Head of Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria.
1991- present: Full time professor at Ecole nationale Supérieure d’Informatique, Algiers, Algeria.
2003 - 2018: Invited professor in different foreign universities - 2018, 2016 and 2014: Pierre Mendès University - Currently Grenoble-Alpes University, France), ; March 2009 : University of Bourgogne, France; September 2003: University of Valenciennes, France.
2002 - 2013: Invited professor in different algerian universities, PhD and Master of Science curricula (University of Annaba, University of Bejaia, University Saad Dahleb of Blida, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Hydraulique).

Teaching and research activities

Lectures: Computer Architectures., Advanced Computer Architectures, Embedded Systems.
Supervision of several doctorates, magisters and master's theses and engineering degrees.
Member in PhD defense boards, university habilitations and Magisters in national and international universities and schools.
Member of several conference and journal scientific committees.

Memberships

2023 - present: Member of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Innovation in Arab Countries.
2023 - present: Member of the Superior Council of the Civil Service.
2023 - present: Member of the Artificial Intelligence Board - Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research / Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Startups and Micro-Enterprises.
2022 - present: Member of the intersectoral board in the fields of fundamental sciences - representative of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
2022 - present: Member of the board of trustees of the national public telecom operator (Algerie Telecom).
October 2021 - present: Member of the National Economic, Social and Environmental Council.
2017 - 2021: Member of the national board of higher education engineering schools, coordinator for the labeling procedure.
2016 – 2020: Member of the national quality assurance board for higher education institutions (CIAQES).
2016 – 2018: Member of the national assessment and accreditation board for PhD curricula.
2015 – 2018: Member of the national board for the assessment and accreditation of new higher education engineering schools.
2014 - 2015: Member of the board of trustees of the national public telecom operator (Algerie Telecom).
2012 - 2015: Member of the Higher education management unit for the achievement of the National Research Network (NREN).
2010 – 2014: Member of the national board for e-learning in Higher Education.
2008 – present: Head of the new student enrolment process in Algerian universities, on behalf of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
2008 – present: Member of the scientific council of the “Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Information Scientifique et Technique” (Scientific and Technical Information Research Center), Algiers, Algeria.
2008 – present: President of the public market board of the “Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Information Scientifique et Technique” (Scientific and Technical Information Research Center), Algiers, Algeria.
2008 - 2013: Member of the national board for the assessment and the accreditation of Graduation curricula.
2008 - 2014: Member of the board of trustees of the “Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche en Information Scientifique et Technique” (Scientific and Technical Information Research Center), Algiers, Algeria.
2008 – 2013: Member of the national board for the assessment and the accreditation of Graduation curricula.
2008 - 2013: Member of permanent sectoral board for Scientific research and technological development of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies.
2008 - 2012: Member of the Technical Advisory Council of the national agency for the promotion and development of tech parks.
2003 – 2005: Member of the higher education national board for the equivalence between international and national degrees.

Research Projects

International Projects :

2011 - 2014: Leader of an Hubert Curien Tassili project:

Topic : design of wireless sensor networks based on embedded multi-agent systems : applied to water distribution

International partners: LCIS (ESISAR) - Université de Grenoble Alpes.

International partner: LCIS Laboratory - Grenoble INP, France.

2009 - 2011: Leader of an Euro-méditerranéen 3+3 project:

Topic : Modeling and validation of networks on chip (NoC) systems

International partners: INRIA France, INRIA Lille Nord Europe France, ESI Alger Algérie, IUMA Spain, Faculté des Sciences of Monastir (Tunisia).

National Projects:

2022 - 2025: Leader of a national research project – topic: "Intelligent system for assisting people at risk". Reference: C00L07ES160520220005. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students.
2018 - 2021: Leader of a national research project – topic : "Fault tolerant Networks-On-Chips". Reference: C00L07ES160520180005. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students.
2014 - 2017: Leader of a national research project – topic : "Cooperation of wireless sensor networks and drones for the detection and the control of forest fires". Reference: B*04120090001. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students.
2010 - 2013: Leader of a national research project – topic : "design of wireless sensor networks for the control of natural environments: application to the detection of pollutant agents in water networks". Reference: B*04120120006. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students.
2006 - 2009: Leader of a national research project – topic : "System testability for embedded systems composed of hardware and software". Reference: B1608/50/06. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students.
2003 - 2005: Leader of a national research project – topic : "Real-time embedded system design methods". Reference: B1608/02/03. The team is composed of 6 permanent members, PhD and engineering students. In partnership with Professeur Daniel Dours’ tram from IRIT (Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse - France).
2000 - 2002: Leader of a national research project – topic : "CODESIGN of embedded accelerating systems ". Reference: B1608/06/99. The team is composed of 6 permanent members and several engineering students. In partnership with Professeur Daniel Dours (IRIT : Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse - France).
1996 - 1999: Leader of a national research project – topic : "Design of visual simulation tools for orthopedics". The team is composed of 6 permanent members and several engineering students. In partnership with the medical teams of 3 Algerian major hospitals.
1992 - 1995 : Leader of a national research project – topic : "Design of visual simulation tools for Orthodontics and dental surgery". The team is composed of 4 permanent members and several engineering students. In partnership with the dental surgery team of an Algerian major hospital (Algiers).

Publications/Communications

O Azzouzi, M Anane, M Koudil, M Issad, Y Himeur, "Novel area-efficient and flexible architectures for optimal Ate pairing on FPGA", The Journal of Supercomputing, 1-27, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-023-05578-5

Nassima Kadri, A Chenine, Z Laib and Mouloud Koudil, "Reliability-aware intelligent mapping based on reinforcement learning for networks-on-chips", The Journal of Supercomputing, 1-36, 1, 2022, DOI: 18153–18188
Mohammed Naem, Mouloud Koudil and Zineddine Ouldimam, "Product Quality Assessment in the Internet of Things: A Consumer-Oriented Approach", Sensors 22 (6), 2215, 3, 2022, DOI:10.3390/s22062215.
Nassima Kadri, A Chenine, Z Laib and Mouloud Koudil, "Multi-objective biogeography-based optimization and reinforcement learning hybridization for network-on chip reliability improvement", Journal of Para9llel and Distributed Computing 161, 20-36, 2022, DOI:10.1016/j.jpdc.2021.11.005 .
Hamed Hellaoui, Mouloud Koudil, Abdelmadjid Bouabdallah, "Energy Efficiency in Security of 5G-Based IoT: An End-to-End Adaptive Approach", IEEE Internet Things J. 7(7): 6589-6602, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2974618.

KADRI N., KOUDIL M., “A survey on fault-tolerant application mapping techniques for Network-on-Chip”, Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 92, Pages 39-52, January 2019. DOI:10.1016/j.sysarc.2018.10.001.
T Faisal, K Benatchba, M Koudil, "Matching Similarity Scores for a Minutiae-based Palmprint Recognition', 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), Lisbon, Portugal, October 2019. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927035

BELKHIRI A., BECHKIT W., RIVANO H., KOUDIL M., “Context Aware MWSN Optimal Redeployment Strategies for Air Pollution Timely Monitoring”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422395
HAMANI N., JAMONT J.P., OCCELLO M., BEN-YELLES C.B., LAGREZE A., KOUDIL M., “A Multi-Cooperative-Based Approach to Manage Communication in Wireless Instrumentation Systems”, IEEE Systems Journal, Volume 12, N°3, pp. 2174-2185, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2017.2721220
EL MARAI O., TALEB T., MENACER M., KOUDIL M., “On Improving Video Streaming Efficiency, Fairness, Stability, and Convergence Time Through Client-Server Cooperation”, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, Volume 64, Issue 1, pp. 11-25, March 2018 DOI:10.1109/TBC.2017.2781146
N Kadri, AE Yahiaoui, MM Kandi, M Koudil, “FTNoCSim: A new Simulation platform for Evaluating Network-on-Chip Reliability“, 25th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Dec. 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2018.8617997
M. Goudjil, M. Koudil, M. Bedda, N. Ghoggali, “A Novel Active Learning Method Using SVM for Text Classification“, International Journal of Automation and Computing, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp 290–298, June 2018, DOI: 10.1007/s11633-015-0912-z, Link

HELLAOUI H., KOUDIL M. and BOUABDALLAH A., “Energy-efficient mechanisms in security of the internet of things: A survey”. Computer Networks, 127, pp.173-189, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2017.08.006
KHENIFAR-BESSADI A., JAMONT J.P, OCCELLO M., BEN-YELLES C.B. and KOUDIL M., “De la coopération de collectifs multi-agents. Un modèle d'utilisation de productions collectives“, Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, Volume 31/1-2, pp.97-132, 2017. DOI:10.3166/ria.31.97-132
TALBI S., KOUDIL M., BOUABDALLAH A., and BENATCHBA K., “Adaptive and dual data-communication trust scheme for clustered wireless sensor networks”, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Volume 65, Issue 4, pp.605-619, 2017. DOI:10.1007/s11235-016-0254-3

HELLAOUI H., BOUABDALLAH A., KOUDIL M., "TAS-IoT: Trust-Based Adaptive Security in the IoT", the 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Dubai, 2016. DOI:10.1109/LCN.2016.101
KHENIFAR-BESSADI A., JAMONT J.P., OCCELLO M., BEN-YELLES C., KOUDIL M.,“About cooperation of multiagent collective products: An approach in the context of cyber-physical systems“, IEEE International Conference on Computing & Communication Technologies, Research, Innovation, and Vision for the Future (RIVF), 2016: 19-24, Hanoi (Vietnam), 2016. DOI:10.1109/rivf.2016.7800263

GOUDJIL M., KOUDIL M., BEDDA M. and GHOGGALI N., "Text Categorization using Reduced Training Set" , Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 10(12): 1363-1369, DOI: 10.19026/rjaset.10.1835
TALBI S., KOUDIL M., BOUABDALLAH A., and BENATCHBA K., “Adaptive Data-Communication Trust Mechanism for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Global Communication Conference, GLOBECOM, San Diego (USA), December 2015. DOI:10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7416963
MEDIOUNI L.B., BENMANSOUR R., BENATCHBA K. and KOUDIL M., “A bi-objective heuristic for heterogeneous MPSoC design space exploration”, 10thInternational Design and Test Symposium, pp:90-95, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IDT.2015.7396742
MEDIOUNI B.L., BENMANSOUR R., NIAR S., BENATCHBA K., KOUDIL M., “Approche Bi-Objectif pour l’Exploration de l’Espace de Conception dans les MPSoC Hétérogènes“, Conférence d’informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système, Lille, Juillet 2015
HELLAOUI H., KOUDIL M., “Bird Flocking Congestion Control for CoAP/RPL/6LoWPAN Networks“, International Workshop on IoT challenges in mobile and industrial Systems, IoT-Sys, Florence (Italy), May 2015. DOI:10.1145/2753476.2753480

BENHAMIDA F.Z., CHALLAL Y., KOUDIL M., "Adaptive failure detection in low power lossy wireless sensor networks", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Volume 45, Pages 168–180, October 2014. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2014.07.028
KHENIFAR A., JAMONT J.P., OCCELLO M., BENYELLES C.B. and KOUDIL M., “A recursive approach to enable the collective level interaction of the Web of Things applications”, IWWISS'14, Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Web Intelligence and Smart Sensing, pp.1-2, ACM, New-York, USA, 2014. DOI:10.1145/2637064.2637098

HAMZI A., KOUDIL M., JAMONT J. and OCCELLO M., "Multi-Agent Architecture for the Design of WSN Applications", Wireless Sensor Network, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 14-25, 2013. DOI:10.4236/wsn.2013.52003
GOUDJIL M., KOUDIL M., HAMMAMI N., BEDDA M., ALRUILY M., “Arabic text categorization using SVM active learning technique: An overview”, World Congress on Computer and Information Technology (WCCIT), 2013. DOI :10.1109/WCCIT.2013.6618666
BENHAMIDA F.Z., CHALLAL Y., KOUDIL M., “ALLONE: A New Adaptive Failure Detector Model for Low-power Lossy Networks”, IEEE Global Communication Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 9 - 13 December 2013. DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831053
BECHKIT W., KOUDIL M., CHALLAL Y., BOUABDALLAH A., SOUICI B. and BENATCHBA K., “A New Weighted Shortest Path Tree for Convergecast Traffic Routing in WSN”, The Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC’12), July 1 - 4, 2012. DOI:10.1109/ISCC.2012.6249291
HAMZI A., KOUDIL M., ‘Agent based platform for the design and simulation of wireless sensor networks’, International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, May 14-16, 2012. DOI: 10.1109/CITS.2012.6220372
BENHAMIDA F.Z., CHALLAL Y. and KOUDIL M., “Efficient Adaptive Failure Detection for Query/Response based Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE IFIP Wireless Day, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, October 10-12, 2011. DOI:10.1109/WD.2011.6098190
HAMANI N., JAMONT J.P., KOUDIL M. and OCCELLO M., “An optimized self-organized approach to manage communication in wireless instrumentation systems”, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents organized in IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, France, Avril 2011. DOI:10.1109/IA.2011.5953612
HAMANI N., JAMONT J.P., KOUDIL M. and OCCELLO M., “An ACO/MAS joint approach to manage communications in wireless sensor networks”, The International ACM Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES'09), 2009. DOI:10.1145/1643823.1643885
BENATCHBA K., KOUDIL M., BENKHELAT N. and BOUKIR Y., "ISA An Algorithm for Image Segmentation Using Ants", IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE’08, Cambridge, UK, June 2008. DOI:10.1109/ISIE.2008.4677258
KOUDIL M., BENATCHBA K., TARABET A. and SAHRAOUI T.B., "Using artificial bees to solve partitioning and scheduling problems in codesign", Applied Mathematics and Computation , Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.amc.2006.08.166, Volume 186, Issue 2, pp.1710-1722, 15 March 2007. DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.08.166
BENATCHBA K., KOUDIL M., BOUKIR Y. and BENKHELAT N., "Image segmentation using quantum genetic algorithms", IEEE International Conference on Industrial applications of Electronics Control, (IECON'06), Paris, pp. 3556-3563, November 2006. DOI:10.1109/IECON.2006.347758
ADMANE L., BENATCHBA K., KOUDIL M., SIAD L. and MAZIZ S., "AntPart: an algorithm for the unsupervised classification problem using ants", Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, Vol. 180, Issue 1, pp. 16-28, 1 September 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2005.11.130
KOUDIL M., BENATCHBA K., GHAROUT S. and HAMANI N., "Solving partitioning problem in codesign with ant colonies", International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3562, June 2005. DOI:10.1007/11499305_34
BENATCHBA K., ADMANE L., KOUDIL M., MADJOUR S. and ALILECHE Y., "Using Bees to solve a Data-Mining problem expressed as a Max-Sat one", International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 3562, June 2005. DOI:10.1007/11499305_22
ADMANE L., BENATCHBA K., KOUDIL M. and DRIAS H., Gharout S. and Hamani N., "Using ant colonies to solve data-mining problems", IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Netherlands, Vol. 4, N° 3151, November 2004. DOI:10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1400824
KOUDIL M., BENATCHBA K. and DOURS D., "Using genetic algorithms for solving partitioning problem in codesign", IWANN'2003 (International Workshop on Artificial intelligence and Neural Networks), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 2687, pp. 393–400, June 2003. DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44869-1_50
BENATCHBA K., BENKRID A. et KOUDIL M., "FO+: Outil d'insertion automatique de points de test dans des circuits combinatoires", Technique et Science Informatique (TSI), Vol. 17, N° 6, Editions Hermès, pp. 699- 720, Juin 1998.
SAVARIA Y., KAMINSKA B., HADJ-YOUCEF M. et KOUDIL M., "Automatic test point insertion for pseudorandom testing", IEEE ISCAS, International Symposium on Computers And Systems, Singapour, pp.1960-1963, June 1991. DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.1991.176793.