Supervisors - Thesis juries

Aurélien DEVILLE
Title: Public and private blockchain: Getting off to a good start towards a paradigm shift.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (33.3%), Bernard Kamsu-Foguem (33.3%), and Bertrand Fauré (33.3%).
Period: February 1, 2018 - July 31, 2018 (6 months).
Funding type: ENIT-SiRYUS Scholarship.

Kim Phuong PHAM
Title: Development of an automated feature engineering tool for building effective health indicators for fault detection, diagnostics, and prognostics.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (100%).
Period: March 1, 2019 - July 31, 2019 (5 months).
Funding type: Toulouse TECH Inter’Labs 2019, AFETHI Project.

Anas BENKHALIFA
Title: Statistical approach for the monitoring and characterizing a non-lubricated system.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Raymond HOUE NGOUNA (50%).
Period: March 30, 2020 - August 30, 2020 (05 months).
Funding type: Research collaboration project with industry (ALSTOM 11).

Mohamed Amine MEHIDI
Title: Useful methods for estimating RUL of complex systems.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Ayeley TCHANGANI (50%).
Period: March 31, 2021 - August 31, 2021 (05 months).
Funding type: ENIT-SiRYUS Scholarship.

Zihao CHEN
Title: Monitoring of addictive manufacturing systems' health states.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Maher BAILI (50%).
Period: Feb 17, 2025 - Jul 13, 2025 (05 months).
Funding type: UTTOP Scholarship.

2017-2020: Ferhat TAMSSAOUET.
Title: Towards a system-oriented prognostics: modeling, uncertainty propagation, and residual life prediction at the system level.
Thesis start date: October 9th, 2017
Thesis defense date: September 9th, 2020
Co-supervision rate and co-supervisors: 50% (co-supervision with Kamal Medjaher, LGP, ENIT)
Funding type: EDSYS scholarship
Publications: 4 published journals (Tamssaouet et al., 2019b; Tamssaouet et al., 2021b; Tamssaouet et al., 2021c; Tamssaouet et al., 2021d) and 5 conference papers (Tamssaouet et al., 2018; Tamssaouet et al., 2019c; Tamssaouet et al., 2019a; Tamssaouet et al., 2021a; Tamssaouet et al., 2020)
After the thesis, the doctoral student became an Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan (September 2021 - August 2024) and at the University Toulouse III (from September 2024).

 2018-2021: Moncef SOUALHI.
Title: Contribution to intelligent monitoring and failure prognostics of industrial systems.
Thesis start date: February 5th, 2018
Thesis defense date: January 14th, 2021
Co-supervision rate and co-supervisors: 50% (co-supervision with Kamal Medjaher, LGP, ENIT).
Funding type: Collaborative project, SMART (Interreg POCTEFA - Europe) Publications: 4 published journals (Soualhi et al., 2019b; Soualhi et al., 2020a; Soualhi et al., 2020c; Soualhi et al., 2022c) and 4 conference papers (Soualhi et al., 2019a; Soualhi et al., 2020b; Soualhi et al., 2021; Soualhi et al., 2022d)
After the thesis, the doctoral student became an Associate Professor at the University of Franche-Compté (from September 2021).

2021-2024: Weikun DENG.
Title: Physics Informed Self Supervised Learning For Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics in the Context of Sparse and Noisy Data.
Thesis start date: September 1st, 2021
Thesis defense date: November 14th, 2024
Co-supervision rate and co-supervisors: 50% (co-supervision with Kamal Medjaher, LGP, ENIT)
Funding type: Chinese government scholarship
Publications: 4 published journals (Deng et al., 2023d; Deng et al., 2023e; Deng et al., 2024a; Deng et al., 2024c) and 5 conference papers (Deng et al., 2023a; Deng et al., 2023c; Deng et al., 2022b; Deng et al., 2022a; Deng et al., 2024b)

2021-2024: Sagar JOSE.
Title: Robust Prognostics and Health Management in Industrial Systems: Exploiting Multimodal Data and Expert Knowledge for Enhanced Performance.
Thesis start date: October 1st, 2021
Thesis defense date: October 14th, 2024
Co-supervision rate and co-supervisors: 50% (co-supervision with Kamal Medjaher, LGP, ENIT)
Funding type: PROSPERE Project (Occitanie Region)
Publications: 2 published journals (Jose et al., 2023c; Jose et al., 2024b), 4 conference papers (Jose et al., 2022; Jose et al., 2023d; Jose et al., 2024c; Jose et al., 2024a), and a book chapter (Jose et al., 2023a).

2022-2025: Duc An NGUYEN.
Title: Development of explainable intelligent solutions for self-monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics of connected manufacturing systems.
Thesis start date: February 1st, 2022
Thesis defense date: N.A.
Co-supervision rate and co-supervisors: 50% (co-supervision with Kamal Medjaher, LGP, ENIT)
Funding type: ANR JCJC, X-IMS Project
Publications: 3 conference papers (Nguyen et al., 2023a, Nguyen et al., 2024, and Nguyen et al., 2025) and a book chapter (Nguyen et al., 2024).

Amor KHLAIEF
Title: Development of a method for analyzing the aging of traction auxiliary engines in the railway domain.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (25%), Kamal MEDJAHER (25%), Pascal MAUS- SION (25%), Antoine PICOT (25%).
Period: June 26, 2017 - December 25, 2018 (18 months).
Funding type: Collaborative research project between ALSTOM, ENIT/LGP, and ENSEEIHT/LAPLACE (Toulouse).
Publications: 2 conference papers (Nguyen et al., 2018d; Khlaief et al., 2019).

Moncef SOUALHI
Title: Intelligent monitoring for predictive maintenance of industrial systems. Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Kamal MEDJAHER (50%).
Period: February 5, 2021 - August 4, 2021 (06 months).
Funding type: Collaborative project, SMART (Interreg POCTEFA - Europe).
Publications: a conference paper (Soualhi et al., 2022b) and 2 journal papers (Soualhi et al., 2022a; Soualhi et al., 2023b).

Sagar JOSE
Title: Contribution to the hybrid prognosis of failures and the management of prediction uncertainty for predictive maintenance.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Kamal MEDJAHER (50%).
Period: October 1st, 2024 - March 31, 2025 (06 months).
Funding type: Extension of PROSPERE project.
Publications: 2 submitted journal papers.

Weikun DENG
Title: Intelligent and Explainable Maintenance Solution for Connected Production Systems.
Supervision: Khanh T. P. NGUYEN (50%), Kamal MEDJAHER (50%).
Period: October 1st, 2024 - March 31, 2026 (18 months).
Funding type: ANR JNJC, X-IMS project.
Publications: 2 submitted journal papers.

2019 – 2022: DINH Duc-Hanh, CRAN - Center for Automatic Control Research of Nancy, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine on October 22, 2021.

2020 – 2023: NGUYEN Van Thai, CRAN - Center for Automatic Control Research of Nancy, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine on June 12th, 2023.

2021 – 2023: ARDIANI Fabio, ISAE-ONERA ACDC - Analysis, Dynamic Control, and Design of Systems, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the ISAE-SUPAERO Research on January 10th, 2023.

Since 2022: Echabarri SOUFIAN, 3nd year, CRAN - Center for Automatic Control Research of Nancy, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine.

Since 2023: HARB Hussein, 1st year, LGP - Production Engineering Laboratory, defended to obtain the Doctorate from INP Toulouse.

Since 2024: TO Xuan Dung, 1st year, LGP - Production Engineering Laboratory, defended to obtain the Doctorate from INP Toulouse.

Since 2024: NGUYEN Hung Anh, 1st year, LGP - Production Engineering Laboratory, defended to obtain the Doctorate from Toulouse University.

 September 2019: Thesis defense of NGUYEN Ho Si Hung, entitled “Developing a dy- namic grouping maintenance strategy for a geographically dispersed production system”, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine.

October 2021: Thesis defense of DINH Duc-Hanh, entitled “Opportunistic predictive maintenance for multi-component systems with multiple dependencies”, CRAN - Center for Automatic Control Research of Nancy, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine.

June 2023: Thesis defense of NGUYEN Van Thai, entitled “Optimization of Artificial Intelligence-based Maintenance for Systems with Multiple Dependencies”, defended to obtain the Doctorate from the University of Lorraine.