Youcef Soufi, Prof. Dr. Ing. Youcef SOUFI, Full Professor in Electrical Engineering, University Echahid Larbi Tebessi, Tebessa, Algeria, E-mail: youcef.soufi@univ-tebessa.dz or y_soufi@yahoo.fr

Research Area: Application of Artificial Intelligence in electrical engineering and renewable energy systems, Renewable energy grid integration and distributed systems, Control of Electrical machines and drives, Fault detection, Diagnosis and monitoring, Smart and micro grids.

Youcef Soufi, received the B.Eng. (1991) and PhD degree (2012) from the University of Annaba, Algeria in Electrical Engineering. Since 2000 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory of Electrical Engineering at the University Echahid Larbi Tebessi, Tebessa, Algeria where: He is currently a full Professor in electrical engineering. His main and current major research interests include application of Artificial intelligence in electrical engineering, Renewable energy, electrical machines control, power electronics and drives. He has published and co-authored more than 200 technical papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings since 2000. He is the member of editorial board of many journals and the member of technical program committee / international advisory board/ international steering committee of many international conferences.