Prof. Abderrahmane Kheddar

Professor Abderrahmane Kheddar received the B.S. degree in computer science from the Institut National d’Informatique, Algiers, Algeria, in 1990, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in robotics from Pierre et Marie Curie University, Sorbonne University, Paris, France in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In 2008, he created the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotic Laboratory, an International Research Laboratory, located in Tsukuba, Japan, where he was the Director from 2008 to 2016 and Codirector from 2017 to 2021. In 2010 he also created and led the Interactive Digital Humans team until 2020, with the Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics of Montpellier, CNRS, University of Montpellier, France. His research interests include haptics, humanoids, and related bionics. He is a Founding Member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Chapter on Haptics, and the Co-Chair and Founding Member of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization. He is a Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Brain Initiative, an Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and a Founding Member and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Cyborg and Bionics System. He was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, from 2013 to 2018. He is a Founding Member of the IEEE Transactions on Haptics and was in its Editorial Board from 2007 to 2010. Since 2020 he is the lead of the bionics initiative at CARTIGEN, University Hospital of Montpellier. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association and Vice-President of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). He is a Full Member of the National Academy of Technology of France and a Knight of the National Order of Merits of France.