Ahmed Bouabdallah received an engineering degree from the National Polytechnic School of Algiers, Algeria, in 2010, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nantes, France, in 2014, both in electrical engineering. During almost one and a half years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Electrical Energy Research of Nantes Atlantiques, Saint-Nazaire, France, his research focused on the integration and sizing issues of hybrid systems: fuel cell, batteries, and photovoltaic panels, as well as on the control and the prototyping of the multiphase machines. He joined the industrial field in 2014 as a test engineer in the electrical and thermal laboratory at Valeo Powertrain Systems R&D center in Creteil, France for one year. Then, in the same center as an Algorithm Design Engineer of permanent magnet synchronous machines for 4 years in the algorithms and simulation department. Currently, he is a Systems Simulation Expert at Johnson Electric International. His work focuses on the development of simulation environments for electrical actuators as well as the implementation of control and rapid prototyping systems. He also supports the software team members in all aspects of Matlab/Simulink development, and Model-Based Design is becoming more and more a core part of his expertise.

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