Kaddour Najim is Professor of Automatic Control in the Process Control Laboratory of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs en Arts Chimiques et Technologiques (ENSIACET), Toulouse, France. He is also Docent in learning systems at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the subject and has conducted several industrial applications. He is also a member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IFAC Applications Committee.