Ahmed Rachid was born on December 1, 1960, in Casablanca, Morocco. He earned his engineering degree in Cybernetics from ESSTIN (Nancy, France) in 1983, followed by an MBA in 1985, a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1986, and the Habilitation degree in 1991 from the University of Nancy. Since 1984, he has been teaching at various universities (Nancy, Lyon) and engineering schools (ESSTIN, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, ESIEE), primarily focusing on control engineering and signal processing. In 1992, he became a professor at the University of Picardie Jules Verne (France), where he established its first laboratory in Automatic Systems. His current research interests include modelling, simulation, control, diagnosis, and observation of processes and systems, with applications in areas such as blast furnaces, vehicle dynamics, Diesel engines, induction electrical drives, stepper motors, incubators, greenhouses, magnetic levitation, pantograph-catenary systems, HVAC, co-generation, electric vehicles, and solar energy. He has supervised 25 PhD theses and co-authored 2 patents, 4 books, and over 150 scientific papers. Additionally, he has organized and chaired several international conferences and coordinated various European research projects and industrial R&D contracts.
